Huntington Memorial nurses will hold a press conference on Thursday to celebrate the NLRB decision and discuss next steps in their efforts to improve the quality of patient care and form a union at the hospital.
Huntington Hospital’s Dirty and Expensive Union-Busting Pays Off
Peter Dreier: After two days of voting, the temporary results are in and the hospital prevailed — hardly a surprise in light of the one-sided playing field that the nurses had to play on.
Huntington Hospital Union Busters Play Voter Suppression Game
Peter Dreier: Since the union drive began last May, the 123-year old 625-bed hospital has engaged is a nasty and expensive union-busting effort, harassing and intimidating nurse and undercutting their organizing efforts.
Pasadena’s Huntington Hospital Nurses Defy Union-Busting Campaign
Peter Dreier: Since the union drive began last May, the hospital has engaged is a nasty and expensive union-busting effort, paying a bevy of experienced and high-priced union-busting firms and consultants to harass and intimidate nurses and undermine their organizing efforts.
For a Better Future for Our Patients: Rally, Tuesday, 14 April
Jen Suh: This historic election (the first in Huntington’s 123-year history) is the culmination of nearly a year of organizing, primarily to restore quality patient care at Huntington. Nurses have faced harassment, intimidation, threats and surveillance to get to this point, and we want to offer our thanks and encouragement to them as they head into the election.
LA Progressive Live! — Nurses Fight for Better Patient Care, Fairer Wages
We’ll be talking with Joan Hardie, a registered nurse at Pasadena’s Huntington Memorial Hospital, and Jen Suh, organizer with the California Nurses Association, who will talk to us about efforts by nurses to restore quality patient care at Huntington.
The Logic of Short Hospital Strikes
Alexandra Bradbury: That’s something health care companies have in common, nonprofits especially: they’re image-conscious. A strike is one of the strongest ways to get your message out to the public.
Working Smarter to Save Workers’ Lives
Diane Lefer: Employment-related death, disability, and illness exact a high toll not only on workers and their families, but on business and the economy as a whole.
The Unions, the Millionaires Tax, and the Road to Success
Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer: Students, teachers, and social service workers in the Occupy Education movement are not wavering in their commitment to the Millionaires Tax, despite union capitulation to pressure from Governor Brown.
California Tax Measure Compromise a Victory for Progressives
Paul Hogarth: When it comes to crafting state budget policy, Sacramento’s leadership never bothers to consult the grass-roots – cutting deals with big business and a small handful of unions, and then expecting the rest of us to take our marching orders.
Summer Single Payer Conference
This one-day educational and skills-building conference will teach you all about the US healthcare system, its problems, and how to fix them.
Herding Cats in Rancho Mirage
Dick Price: Perhaps Common Cause can be a kind of can opener in offering its resources as a clearinghouse for information about progressive causes and as an organizing agent to pull together like-minded individuals and organizers as it did last Sunday.
Koch Brothers Protest Rally
Thousands of protesters gathered this weekend in Palm Springs to express opposition to the secret meeting held by David and Charles Koch. The Koch brothers, owners of the 2nd largest privately held corporation in the United States, were conducting their bi-annual retreat where they and a cadre of well heeled power brokers hold strategy sessions.
