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Global Nurses United Press Clips
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Australia
- Headline: Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation demands answers on clinic closures from NT Health
- Headline: Kick the profiteers out of aged care
- Headline: 'Come any closer and you're dead': Woman jailed for attacking nurse, cop
- Headline: Teacher 'faced charges' for accessing exam papers to help daughter study
Canada
- Headline: Opinion: Hands off our retirement funds, say Alberta union leaders
- Headline: Public sector workers protest funding cuts, Bill 22
- Headline: Nurses rally against UCP's pension changes
- Headline: Joint rally protests Alberta Budget 2019 post-secondary cuts and changes
- Headline: Public sector workers protest funding cuts, Bill 22
- Headline: Bundle of Joy returns to collect baby items for Regina families in need
- Headline: Nurses refuse mandatory overtime in second day of protest
- Titre: Une autre journée sans temps supplémentaire pour les infirmières
Headline: Another day without overtime for nurses - Titre: L’Outaouais peine à garder ses infirmières, bien qu’elle en forme toujours autant
Headline: Outaouais struggles to keep nurses, although it is in good form - Headline: Opinion: If you want to reduce nurses' overtime, hire more nurses
- Titre: Les employés de la santé deux fois plus à risque de se blesser au travail
Headline: Health workers twice as likely to get injured at work - Titre: Temps supplémentaire: des infirmières de Québec à bout de souffle
Headline: Extra time: Quebec nurses gasping for breath - Headline: 'Extremely concerned': Protesters decry Ontario health-care cuts, changes
- Headline: Nursing shortage has 'really escalated,' says president of P.E.I. Nurses Union
Dominican Republic
Ireland
- Headline: UHG third most overcrowded hospital in the country today
- Headline: Overcrowding crisis in LUH branded ‘f***ing ridiculous’
- Headline: No beds for 300 patients at Naas Hospital in October
- Headline: Patients Could Die Due To Hospital Overcrowding
- Headline: Cork University Hospital denied extra funding to ease overcrowding
- Headline: HSE publishes plan for addressing hospital overcrowding this winter
- Headline: INMO: 'Impossible' to staff additional beds included in HSE Winter Plan due to 'recruitment pause'
- Headline: Public health nurses in Galway warn services face emergency closure due to staff shortages
- Headline: HSE to launch winter plan as nurses say recruitment restrictions crippling service
- Headline: 5,522 without beds at University Hospital Waterford so far this year
- Headline: Current recruitment pause in the HSE is crippling the health service – INMO
- Headline: Patients on trolleys exceeds 100,000 this year
- Headline: Nursing services in Galway ‘face closure’ due to staff shortages
- Headline: More than 600 on hospital trolleys, says INMO
- Headline: Trolley figures reveal true crisis in health services, says Crowe
- Headline: Continued Recruitment Pause Is "Soul Destroying" For Hospital Staff
- Headline: UHG second most overcrowded hospital again today
- Headline: Nurses insist HSE's €26m winter boost is useless without extra staff
Kenya
- Headline: Taita-Taveta health workers call off strike
- Headline: Kenyan Health Workers Resume Strike After Government Fails to Honour Promises
- Headline: How City Hall averted planned strike by nurses and clinical officers
- Headline: City Hall promotes nurses, clinical officers to avert strike
New Zealand
- Headline: Wairoa to be one-practice town as DHB closes primary care clinic
- Headline: SCDHB rates highly on implementation of care programme at Timaru Hospital
- Headline: Nurses furious about DHB Wairoa decision
- Headline: Hawke's Bay DHB defends decision to close Wairoa Health Care Centre
- Headline: Canterbury health board has the country's highest rate of staff taking sick leave
- Headline: Auckland DHB sees rise in bullying, harassment complaints
Paraguay
- Titular: Funcionarios del Hospital de San Juan denuncian descuentos compulsivos de salarios
Headline: San Juan Hospital officials denounce compulsory salary deductions - Titular: Continúa revisión por descuentos compulsivos en Hospital de San Juan
Headline: Review continues for compulsory deductions at San Juan Hospital
Portugal
- Manchete: Utentes exigem urgência pediátrica do Garcia de Orta “aberta de noite e dia”
Headline: Users demand Garcia de Orta pediatric ER remain “open night and day” - Manchete: Ministra garante que fecho da urgência pediátrica noturna no Garcia de Orta é temporário
Headline: Minister assures closure of night pediatric emergency in Garcia de Orta is temporary - Manchete: Edgar Santos vai manter-se na liderança do SEP no Alentejo
Headline: Edgar Santo will continue to lead SEP in Alentejo - Manchete: Utentes e deputados do PS exigem urgência pediátrica do Garcia de Orta "aberta de noite e dia"
Headline: PS users and MPs demand Garcia de Orta pediatric ER remain "open night and day"
South Korea
- Headline: The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions organizes the National Workers’ Rally on November 9, 2019
- Headline: Five day- long March to Stop Retrogressive Revision of Labor Law and to Reinstate Fired Workers
- Headline: The Catholic University of Korea Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital ended 12 year-long struggle as a result of agreement reached between labor and management.
Spain
- Titular: Satse denuncia «la presión laboral y enorme estrés» de las tres enfermeras de la cárcel de Soria
Headline: Satse denounces "labor pressure and enormous stress" on the three nurses at Soria prison - Titular: Satse reclama incrementar la plantilla de la Enfermería de la UCI del JRJ
Headline: Satse demands an increase to the nursing staff of the UCI at JRJ - Titular: Denuncian la falta de enfermeros en una cárcel de León: un sanitario atiende a 741 presos
Headline: Lack of nurses at León prison denounced: one health worker tends to 741 prisoners - Titular: Triple petición gubernamental para subir la categoría profesional enfermera
Headline: Three petitions to the government request an elevated professional category for nurses - Titular: SATSE demands access to partial and early retirement for nurses
Headline: SATSE reclama la jubilación parcial y anticipada para las enfermeras y enfermeros - Titular: SATSE reclama a la UE una norma sobre protección en el manejo de fármacos peligrosos
Headline: SATSE demands EU policy on safe handling of dangerous drugs - Titular: SATSE gana una sentencia que reconoce a una enfermera de Servicios Sociales la continuidad asistencial como tiempo trabajado
Headline: SATSE wins decision that recognizes Social Service nurses’ continuity of care as time worked - Titular: Satse reclama enfermeras en todos los colegios para atender mejor a los niños y jóvenes con diabetes
Headline: Satse demands nurses in all schools to better serve children and youth with diabetes - Titular: Satse León alcanza los 1.600 afiliados por primera vez en su historia
Headline: Satse León reaches 1,600 affiliates for the first time in its history - Titular: Satse afirma que las residencias de mayores públicas de León trabajan bajo mínimos más de 255 días al año
Headline: Satse says that León nursing homes operate below minimum staff levels more than 255 days a year
United Kingdom
- Headline: Calls to scrap ‘immoral’ NHS fee for foreign staff
- Headline: Northern Ireland surgery cancellations 'no surprise'
- Headline: Plans to further increase NHS fee for overseas nurses criticised
- Headline: Unite's health workers to vote on industrial action
- Headline: 5% pay rise for nurses if Labour elected
- Headline: Nurses ‘overwhelmingly’ vote to take strike action
- Headline: Royal College of Nursing: We have spoken
- Headline: Royal College of Nursing Council approves December dates for industrial action and strike action in Northern Ireland
- Headline: Nurses to strike for the first time in December
- Headline: Second union votes in favour of strike action in Northern Ireland
- Headline: Call for more student nurse placements in Welsh care homes
- Headline: Irish nurses' strike leader supports NI nurses' action
- Headline: RCN highlights ‘crucial’ role of nurses in letter to political leaders
United States
- Headline: House passes workplace violence prevention bill
- Headline: Black eyes, bruised limbs and concussions: Why nurses say going into work is like ‘walking into a war zone’
- Headline: House approves nurse-pushed workplace violence bill
- Headline: Major Nurses’ Union Backs Bernie Sanders and His Push for ‘Medicare for All’
- Headline: Nurses' Union Endorses Bernie Sanders For President
- Headline: Oakland Nurses Endorse Sanders as He Pitches Medicare for All
- Headline: Weekend With Bernie. Details on Sanders’ Fresno Campaign Stop.
- Headline: National Nurses United backs Bernie Sanders
- Headline: Bernie Sanders to receive endorsement from nurses union group
- Headline: Citing Deep Commitment to Medicare for All and Green New Deal, Nation's Largest Nurses Union Endorses Bernie Sanders for President
- Headline: Citing Medicare for All, National Nurses United endorses Sanders – again
- Headline: National Nurses United Endorse Bernie Sanders’ 2020 Presidential Bid
- Headline: Sanders lands endorsement from nurses union
- Headline: 'What Momentum Looks Like': Sanders Becomes Fastest Presidential Candidate in History to Reach 4 Million Individual Donations
- Headline: Support For Cisneros’ Campaign To Unseat Anti-Worker Incumbent
- Headline: Nurses, U of C Medical Center Prepare for Possible Walkout
- Headline: World Federation of Trade Unions and Canadian Labour Congress denounce Bolivian coup
- Headline: Long Beach nurses rally to address understaffed hospital, call for MemorialCare leadership to settle contract
- Headline: My Word: CNA, NUHW forces for good
- Headline: ‘It Was Chaotic’: Fight Puts North Memorial Medical Center On Lockdown
- Headline: Brawl at suburban Twin Cities hospital ER
- Headline: MD Anderson safety struggles show pressures on nurses
- Headline: Nurses at University of Chicago Medical Center Authorize Strike
- Headline: U Of Chicago Hospital Nurses Set To Strike Again Nov. 26
- Headline: The Health 202: U.S. to lose thousands of health-care workers if 'dreamers' must leave
- Headline: AFL-CIO President Trumka and other union leaders condemn Bolivian coup
- Headline: Protesters Demand Congressional Reps Support Medicare for All
- Headline: U Of Chicago Nurses Could Soon Hit The Picket Line Again
- Headline: Group of workers picket in front of Shasta Regional Medical Center
- Headline: Group of workers picket in front of Shasta Regional Medical Center
- Headline: 50 Organizations Send Letter to Gov. Newsom Calling for PG&E Public Takeover
- Headline: Foreseen service cutbacks at Napa Valley hospital among concerns in Adventist Health-St. Joseph Health pact
- Headline: The Medicare-for-All Real Deal