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Covid has opened up the hospital industry’s desire to normalize remote and automated care in order to decentralize patient care. National Nurses United explains.
A major Maine hospital system vaccinated anti-union consultants brought in from out of state to fight a staff unionization effort, drawing rebukes from a nurses union and the state’s governor.
"Nurses and other health care workers in many countries still do not have the personal protective equipment (PPE) and basic safety precautions that they need to care for their patients safely,”
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and some of his organization’s largest affiliate unions are getting behind Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. But others are pushing Michigan Rep. Andy Levin, a former Service Employees International Union organizer.
"When nurses are not protected, the community is not protected," one California nurse said.
Sen. Bernie Sanders supports registered nurses in North Carolina as they work to make the union at Mission Health-HCA with National Nurses United.
Sanders will accept endorsement at a rally in Oakland, Calif. on Friday. "Bernie Sanders is, and has been, leading on Medicare for All through his advocacy and Senate legislation,” says Bonnie Castillo, the executive director of the nurses' union.
"The time is now to create a universal, single-payer, Medicare for All healthcare system in the United States," the economists wrote
Leaders must also know when it’s time for a new person to take the helm. To keep new blood flowing through the labor movement, older leaders have to make room for their successors, RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, said.
“You have to get out of the way. You can’t just talk about it,” she said. “If you’re a leader, a strong leader, you step down and open that up to someone you believe reflects where this union needs to be.”
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