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4 News Briefs
Michigan nurses win new contract 5 | NNU report
shows increased rates of workplace violence
6 | Minnesota RNs introduce Healing Greed
Agenda 7 | NNU applauds CDC 8 | Nurses
champion improved CalCare legislation
9 | Marina del Rey nurses win contract
after multiple strikes; Fort Kent nurses
unionize 10 | PPC series: The Heart of the Union
11 | Nurses named most trusted profession by
Gallup; St. Louis RNs strike again 12 | UChicago
nurses rally for safe staffing 13 | Palm Springs
nurses demand Tenet address patient safety
14 | NYSNA nurses unite to ratify three new
contracts 16 | Mission Hospital nurses applaud
AG's lawsuit 17 | Austin RNs vote to unionize.
18 | Daly City nurses protest health care cuts;
Antelope Valley RNs rally for safe staffing;
Watsonville nurses ratify new contract; Machias
nurses rally twice for patient safety; Baltimore RNs
begin negotiations for first contract.
19 Humanity is the heart
of nursing
Replacing RN care with AI is unacceptable, and
nurses are fighting back.
By Bonnie Castillo, RN
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An Ounce of Prevention
RNs show that enforcing workplace violence
prevention rules is highly effective.
By Chuleenan
Svetvilas
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ON THE COVER: RNs working at a ProMedica
facility in Adrian, Mich. succeeded in holding
line against a stubborn employer and winning
a new contract in February with provisions and
improvements they had long sought, and without
conceding to a two-tier retirement proposal.
