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 advocates viewed those claims as bogus, and believe the issue comes down to union representation. Planned Parenthood is the main proponent of both bills. As it happens, Planned Parenthood clinics are not union shops.
  • (Sacramento Bee)
  • 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)
  • PLYMOUTH - The union representing 240 workers at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station and the company that owns the plant have agreed to go back to the negotiating table. Talks will resume Monday.
  • (Cape Cod Times)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The clinic takes them all, and sometimes refers them to the Union Gospel Mission for chronic illnesses at least until we have a society where all people have access to quality health care.
  • (Olympian)
  • 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)

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