SEIU ramping up efforts to organize hospital workers
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The Service Employees International Union will step up its Boston hospital organizing efforts today when members are expected to hand out leaflets in the Longwood Medical Area. SEIU has been working to organize employees in Boston's largely nonunion teaching hospitals for nearly two years. An organizing rally is set for Oct. 16. Union officials said they want hospital executives to ...
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The California Nurses Association, one of the nation's largest unions of registered nurses, announced yesterday that it was affiliating with the AFL-CIO to join the labor federation's campaign for universal health insurance.
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ANTIOCH, Calif., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement was issued by the Health Care Workers Union, SEIU 250. Today, 180 health care workers, including licensed vocational nurses, certified nursing
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A union is trying to force nonprofit groups like hospitals to comply with standards of governing similar to those that federal law requires of private companies.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Officials with the California Nurses Association said Friday they plan a one-day strike at several Sutter Health hospitals in Northern California to protest staffing levels.
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In a post-election blow to powerful nursing unions, the Schwarzenegger administration moved Thursday to ease some requirements of the state&#39;s first-in-the-nation law telling hospitals how many nurses they must have on hand to care for patients.
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Two local hospitals are taking part in a program run by the China Disease Prevention and Control Center and a US-based medical company in an effort to establish the nation&#39;s first guidelines on hand hygiene in hospitals.
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OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement was jointly issued by the CNA and Health Care Workers Union SEIU 250: This Friday, Nov. 19, registered nurses and hospital workers will announce
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The Selective Service is updating contingency plans for a draft of health care workers in case of an emergency that overwhelmed the military's medical corps.
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Dennis Rivera , president of the New York-based 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East , recently rose to the job of chief of all SEIU healthcare workers in the country. He spoke with Globe reporter Christopher Rowland about the union's efforts to organize workers at Boston's teaching hospitals. Q Why are you having success organizing healthcare workers when other unions are ...
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An awareness campaign aimed at reducing the level of hospital acquired infections is launched in Glasgow.
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The Massachusetts Hospital Association is expected to unveil an ambitious program today to improve patient safety in the state's 105 hospitals, including public posting of nurses' workloads at individual hospitals and the number of hours each day they spend directly caring for patients.
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Three groups of health-care leaders are banding together to make hospitals a less dangerous place to get well.
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As rising health-care costs hurt workers and retirees alike, America's trade unions are seen inching toward a broad-sweeping agreement with U.S. corporations on health-care reform.
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Workers at an inner-city hospital where a woman died last month on the floor of an emergency room have received training on their responsibilities, officials said.
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Early last Saturday, nurses at an Indianapolis hospital went to the drug cabinet in the newborn intensive care unit to get blood-thinner for several premature babies.
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A group of the nationâs largest for-profit hospital chains plan to propose that individuals be required to have basic health coverage.