Healthcare Workers

What Health Care Can Learn From Auto Repair

James R. Knickman | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Diabetes, Community Health Workers, Nurses, Health Care, Healthcare Workers, Health Care Reform, Health Care Professionals, Nurse Practitioners, Scope of Practice, New York News
James R. Knickman

Many say we need to train more primary care doctors. This is a good long-term goal, but in the short term, we need to use all of our primary care professionals as efficiently as possible.

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Kaiser workers make national headlines in historic NUHW vote

Shirley Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kaiser, Seiu-Uhw, Kaiser Permanente, Nuhw, Sal Rosselli, Seiu, Healthcare Workers, Politics News
Shirley Nelson

On September 13, the biggest private sector union election in more than 70 years began. 43,500 Kaiser healthcare workers across California began to re...

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NUHW vs. SEIU: Kaiser Workers Prepare to Make History

Shirley Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seiu-Uhw, Labor Day, Nuhw, Healthcare Workers, Kaiser Permanente, Sal Rosselli, Seiu, Kaiser, Politics News
Shirley Nelson

Nearly 30,000 of us signed petitions telling the government that we want NUHW to be our union and we wanted this election to make it official -- the biggest private sector union election in more than 70 years.

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Two Weeks in January: the Birth of a Healthcare Workers' Union

Shirley Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Healthcare Workers, Nuhw, Unions, Labor, Andy Stern, Healthcare, Seiu, California, Politics News
Shirley Nelson

Our disagreement with SEIU was about democracy, and how friendly a union should be with corporations. We insisted that workers should always have the right to vote on the issues that affect our workplaces, our union, and our future.

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Democracy on Trial: My View on SEIU's Lawsuit Against Our Union

Shirley Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuhw, Union Members, SEIU Lawsuit, Uhw, Andy Stern, Healthcare Workers, Unions, Health Care, Seiu, Politics News
Shirley Nelson

It is clear that SEIU's lawyers understand, and want to hide from the jury, that the vast majority of the members of our union disagreed with Andy Stern.

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Put Women's Health Back in the Picture

Meghan Rhoad | Posted 05.25.2011

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Meghan Rhoad

The Global Gag Rule withheld critical funds from organizations abroad which provided legal, voluntary abortions, counseled women about abortion, and engaged in advocacy for abortion rights.

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Reflections on Reconciliation: Paradox of Excess & Deprivation

Terry Leach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Excess, Human Family, Safety Net, Barack Obama, Reconciliation, US Airways Hudson River, U.S. Economy, US Airways Plane Crashes, Plane Crash Hudson River, Economy, Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger, Sully, Bankers, Airline Prices, Chesley B. Sully Sullenberger, Healthcare Workers, Hudson River Plane Crash, Great Depression, Sully Pilot Hero, US Airways, Money, Investment Bankers, US Airways Crash, US Airways Pilot, Pensions, Airline Industry, US Economy, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, Sully Plane Crash, Schools, Healthcare, Business News
Terry Leach

I wonder if Captain "Sully" Sullenberger's colleagues' pensions are secure. Somehow, I doubt it. Although airlines were the companies we used to loved to hate, airline employees are part of the family, too.

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