Sunday, June 17, 2012

Health care unions

  • One labor union's position on nurse-to-patient ratios in California hospitals has outraged other unions that represent registered nurses in the state.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Health care workers from AFSCME 1199 voted unanimously Wednesday to authorize union leaders to call a strike if a contract settlement cant be reached by July 1.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) — Some are already anticipating the Supreme Courts ruling on President Barack Obamas health care law as the decision of the century. But the justices are unlikely to have the last word on Americas tangled efforts to address health care woes.
  • (Times Union)
  • TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott's administration was back in a familiar place Tuesday, the courtroom, where two unions are challenging a plan to save money by privatizing health care to the state's 100,000 inmates.
  • (Miami Herald)
  • Iowa's state employees would be required to pick up 20 percent of their health care costs under a demand Gov. Terry Branstad will make during union negotiations this year, he said today in a meeting with The Des Moines Register (See video below).
  • (Des Moines Register)
  • ORLANDO, Fla.
  • (Times Union)
  • Teachers unions see meaningful performance evaluations as an assault The threat of ballot questions helped force Massachusetts to reform education in 1994 and health care in 2006.
  • (Abington Mariner)
  • Heres a tale for our new financial times: In April, Andi Barbeau got a letter from her union, the Health Sciences Association. The HSA represents more than 16,000 health care professionals in B.C. The letter concerned her long-term disability payments.
  • (The Vancouver Sun)
  • comes as union officials and Sutter management continue to clash over sick leave, retirement benefits, health care payments, patient care conditions and other issues.
  • (San Jose Mercury News)

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