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Meet the Nurse Alliance of California Steering Committee Members
 Steering Committee
Elect Co-chairs!
  Congratulations to Katherine Hughes of Local 121RN and Lorraine Thiebaud of Local 1021 on their election as co-chairs to the California Nurse Alliance! To ensure that public sector RNs have a significant role in the development of statewide initiatives of interest and benefit to the profession » Read More
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2008 Steering Committee Meeting Dates | |
» May 5-6 | Legislative Conferences, Sacramento Holiday Inn | |
» June 9 | Local 121RN
Los Angeles | |
» August 4 | Local 1021
Oakland | |
» October 6 | Local 221
San Diego | |
» Dec. 1 | Local 1021
Oakland
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» Advocacy in Action '08
Legislative Conference
Approved for 15 contact hours
Workshops on Nurse Practice Act, Titles 17 and 22 - Advocacy Strategies and Resources.
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Advocacy in Action
Legislative Conference 2008
Come Honor OUR Work during Nurses' Week!
Please Join Us!
I encourage everyone to come to the Nurse Alliance Legislative Conference. It’s a fantastic opportunity to network with other nurses, and really get to the heart of the health care improvements we all want to make in California. I‘ll be there!
-Nancy Lyerla, CDCR RN
SEIU Local 1000
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At our 2008 Legislative Conference we will strategize how to put nurses at the center of the discussions around state health care reform. Participants will have a chance to address all the policies necessary to secure safe, accessible quality health care for all. Lets work together to ensure a strong public health system and safety net for California!
Holiday Inn Sacramento
Conference Starts: 10:00 A.M. - Tuesday, May 6th
Conference Ends: 5:00 P.M. - Wednesday, May 7th
For more information on attending the conference, including hotel registration, contact your Local staff person.
»Download Flyer
Join our Staffing Ratios
Research Team!
SEIU Nurses Have to Make the Staffing Law Work. It’s Up To Us.
After helping pass the law, SEIU nurses in the Nurse Alliance began to work on
implementing it, including providing our professional recommendations to DHS
on the implementation regulations.
But there’s more work to do. Initial reports from the field indicate that there are
a number of problems with the staffing ratios law that may need to be
addressed, including:
• Basic adherence to the staffing ratios.
• Non-nurse support staff being cut, forcing nurses to pick up the slack, thus
undermining the law’s intent.
• Problems with patient classification systems, resulting in inadequate
staffing levels.
Recent research by the California Nursing Outcomes Coalition also supports the
need to look more deeply at how/if the law has been implemented.
Join our research project — and the campaign to make staffing ratios work for
patients.
»Download Staffing Brochure
Tell CNA: Silencing Nurses Voices Is Not a Victory. Show your support; Sign the Petition!
Over the past three years, more than 8,000 nurses and healthcare workers at Catholic Healthcare Partners—the largest hospital system in Ohio—worked with SEIU members and organizers to win an opportunity to form a union.
In February, they had a breakthrough when they won the opportunity to make the decision without interference or pressure of any kind.
But just days before they were set to vote to form a union, the California Nurses Association came to Ohio and disrupted the elections.
CNA accused SEIU of being “undemocratic” and claimed the ground rules the hospital workers had achieved were a “back-room” deal.
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Click Here and tell the California Nurses Association: Silencing Nurses Voices Is Not a Victory!
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Ohio Nurses Condemn California Nurses Association’s Union-Busting Scare Tactics and Propaganda
This
week, nearly 8,000 nurses and other healthcare workers in Ohio saw their dreams
of forming a union derailed after the California Nurses Association (CNA)
flooded the state with hostile organizers and bombarded workers with wildly
false and misleading leaflets and phone calls urging them to vote against the
union.
In response to the California Nurses Association’s (CNA)
disgraceful and deceitful tactics, nurses impacted by the delay of the elections
published an open letter to CNA Executive Director Rose Ann
DeMoro expressing their outrage and disappointment.
The nurses write,
“You have brought harm to thousands of workers and families in Ohio, and you
should be ashamed of what you have done.”
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Local 721
REGISTERED NURSES PUSH DHS INTO MAKING OVER 1,500 NEW RN II – III PROMOTIONS
“WE NURSES expect DHS to promote the MAJORITY of RNs who applied for the over 1,500 positions that remain allocated, budgeted, and unfilled. By promoting RNs, our L.A. County Health Care System can recognize its Registered Nurses for the contribution we make as patient advocates every day.”
- Grace Corse, Chair
RN Bargaining Unit
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Local 1021
SAN FRANCISCO NURSES REACH A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT
SF Nurses reached a tentative agreement on May 17, 2007, with a unanimous recommendation of support from your RN Negotiation Committee.
2007 SF RN Contract Ratification Results
YES 485 (96%) NO 23 (4%)
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