National Nurses United

Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation Publication title: National Nurse. Publication number: USPS 0807-560, ISSN 2153-0386. Filing date: 9-29-2016. Issue frequency: Bimonthly, with combined issues in January-February, March-April, May-June, July- August, September-October, and November-December. Number of issues published annually: 6. Annual subscription price: $40. Complete mailing address of known office of publication: 155 Grand Ave., Oakland, Alameda County, California, 94612. Contact person: Lucia Hwang. Telephone: (510) 273-2200. Complete mailing addresses of headquarters or general business office of publisher: Same as above. Publisher: California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, 155 Grand Ave., Oakland, California, 94612. Editor: Lucia Hwang. Managing edi- tor: None. Owner: California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, 155 Grand Ave., Oakland, California, 94612. Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 percent or more of total amount: none. Tax status: Has not changed during preceding 12 months. Publication title: National Nurse. Issue date for circulation data below: March-April 2016. Extent and nature of circulation: Registered nurse members of CNA/NNU and subscribers. For the following, the first number represents the average number of copies of each issue during preceding 12 months and the second number represents the number of copies of the single issue published nearest to filing date. Total number of copies (net press run): 158,327; 166,000. Mailed outside-county paid subscriptions stated on PS Form 3541: 138,476; 124,387. Mailed in-county paid subscriptions stated on PS Form 3541: 0; 0. Paid distribution outside the mails including sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors, counter sales, and other paid distribution outside USPS: 0; 0. Paid distribution by other classes of mail through the USPS: 0, 0. Total paid distribution: 138,476; 124,387. Free or nominal rate outside-county copies included on PS Form 3541: 122; 122. Free or nominal rate in-county copies included on PS Form 3541: 1; 1. Free or nominal rate copies mailed at other classes through the USPS: 43; 38. Free or nominal rate distribution outside the mail: 0; 0. Total free or nominal rate distribution: 166; 161. Total distribution: 138,642; 124,548. Copies not dis- tributed: 19,685; 41,452. Total: 158,327; 166,000. Percent paid: 99.88%; 99.87%. Information in this statement will be published in the October-November-December 2016 issue of this publication. 8 N A T I O N A L N U R S E W W W . N A T I O N A L N U R S E S U N I T E D . O R G O C T O B E R | N O V E M B E R | D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 6 NEWS BRIEFS WRAP-UP REPORT California ANTELOPE VALLEY registered nurses ratified a new contract in early December covering nearly 1,000 nurses at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, Calif. The agreement came just days after RNs voted to authorize an unfair labor practice strike and includes significant improvements, including a 10 percent wage increase over three years. RNs successfully defeated takeaways and preserved contract language guaranteeing critical workplace benefits and nursing practice protections. These are all factors that will enhance the hospitals ability to retain and recruit staff and address the hospital's chronic short-staffing, say nurses. "This settlement is the culmina- tion of 18 months of solidarity and action," said Maria Altamirano, RN. "Today, we cele- brate, but tomorrow and every day after, the AVH RNs will continue to fight for quality care for our patients and our community." KECK HOSPITAL OF USC in early january, RN transplant coordi- nators and nurse practitioners at the Keck Hospital of USC voted 20-5 to join the Cali- fornia Nurses Association/National Nurses United. These nurses will be able to join about 1,200 of their colleagues as Keck USC nurses enter bargaining in February 2017. USC VERDUGO HILLS HOSPITAL rns approved a new contract in December covering 200 nurses at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, Calif. The agreement includes significant improvements and workplace protections that will enhance their ability to provide quality patient care, say RNs. Key features in the tentative pact include economic and retirement benefit improvements to promote retention of expe- rienced RNs and recruitment of new nurses, maintenance of health benefits, and free University of Southern California tuition for RNs and their children. "Everyone will bene- fit from the provisions in the new agree- ment—our patients, visitors, healthcare workers, and the community," said Lisa Ryken, RN. Maine nurses at The Aroostook Medical Center (TAMC) in the far northeast town of Presque Isle, Maine won a solid, new three-year contract in November after a long campaign that included a two-day July strike, multiple actions to pressure management to settle a fair agreement, and building community support. Most notably, nurses were able to address the deep problem of RN under- staffing by prioritizing the filling of shifts by unionized, staff RNs over travelers. RNs also won 3 percent across-the-board raises each year, an additional step at the top of the wage grid, an additional week of parental leave, automatic increases in job postings if units are consistently short, and many other improvements. National assistant secretary of Labor David Michaels announced in January that the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will be granting National Nurses United's (NNU) petition for a standard to prevent workplace violence in healthcare settings. "I agree with [NNU] that workplace violence is a serious occupational hazard that presents a signifi- cant risk for healthcare and social assistance workers," said Michaels in a letter to NNU Health and Safety Director Bonnie Castillo, RN. "OSHA is granting [NNU's] petition and will commence rulemak- ing to address the hazards of work- place violence in the healthcare and social assistance industries." In July 2016, NNU submitted a petition to OSHA for a workplace violence prevention standard with an expansive scope, thorough prevention requirements, and robust train- ing. News that the petition would be granted came on the eve of a Jan. 9 OSHA public stakeholder meeting on workplace violence in Washington, D.C. where NNU nurses from around the country testified on the impor- tance of promptly passing workplace violence regulations. OSHA's rulemaking process will now begin, providing nurses and other healthcare workers opportunities to further testify at future hearings. "Such regulations are vital to protecting nurses and other healthcare workers, as well as their patients, from the epidemic of workplace violence across the U.S.," said Castillo. —Staff report From top: Verdugo Hills RNs vote in a new contract; RNs testified in Washington, D.C. for federal workplace violence prevention regulations.

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