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Global Nurses United Press Clips
Filipino health workers in action for better wages and more protective equipment. Photo Credit: © AWH
Australia
- Headline: Job cuts on government agenda: SA nurses
- Headline: Victorian patients to benefit from more nurses and midwives
- Headline: Nurses rally as NSW upper house rejects public sector pay freeze
- Headline: Hunter's nurses and midwives peacefully protest NSW Government's wage freeze for public sector workers
- Headline: NSW public servants' pay freeze rejected
- Headline: Nurses to rally in Manilla, near Tamworth, and Armidale against NSW government's planned wage freeze for public sector wages
- Headline: Nurses to rally in Port Macquarie against NSW government's planned wage freeze for public sector wages
- Headline: Rockhampton nursing home comes out of lockdown after coronavirus scare
Brazil
- Manchete: Demora do Ministério da Saúde em regular hospitais de campanha prejudica resposta à pandemia
Headline: Ministry of Health's delay in regulating field hospitals harms response to pandemic - Manchete: Sindicato pede que enfermeiros sejam excluídos de rodízio em Teresina
Headline: Union asks nurses to be excluded from rotation in Teresina - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros solicita à prefeitura testes da Covid-19 aos profissionais da saúde em Mogi; mais de 18% dos infectados na cidade são da categoria
Headline: Nurses Union requests Covid-19 tests from City Hall for health professionals in Mogi; over 18% of those infected in the city are in the category - Manchete: Sindicato denuncia atraso de salários em hospital do Anhembi
Headline: Union denounces delayed salaries at Anhembi hospital
Canada
- Titre: Vacances pour les infirmières: la FIQ dénonce des «employeurs récalcitrants»
Headline: Holidays for nurses: the FIQ denounces “recalcitrant employers” - Titre: Des infirmières mortes de fatigue
Headline: Nurses who died of fatigue - Headline: Physician involved in potential COVID-19 outbreak showed symptoms, told to get tested by Thunder Bay hospital
- Headline: Unions want COVID-19 campaign funds to go to workers left out of pandemic pay-bump
- Headline: Grieving families welcome SHA changes to visitation rules
- Headline: Behind the outbreaks: Health care staff moved around province to cover gaps
- Headline: Not everyone happy with Manitoba essential workers’ bonus
Colombia
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Enfermeras de clínicas denuncian que fueron suspendidas por 60 días
Headline: Clinic nurses report that they were suspended for 60 days - Titular: Sinatrae revela más de 40 enfermeras y técnicos del 9-1-1 tienen Covid-19
Headline: Sinatrae reveals more than 40 9-1-1 nurses and technicians have Covid-19 - Titular: Maternidad de Los Mina lucha contra el COVID-19 sin agua y jabón
Headline: Los Mina maternity ward fights against COVID-19 without soap and water
Honduras
- Titular: Más de 90 enfermeras y enfermeros han dado positivo al coronavirus en Honduras
Headline: More than 90 nurses have tested positive for the coronavirus in Honduras - Titular: Médicos y enfermeras, víctimas recurrentes del estigma
Headline: Doctors and nurses, recurring victims of stigma - Titular: Miembros de ANEEAH podrían demandar al Gobierno por asignación de plazas
Headline: ANEEAH members could sue the Government for allocation of places
India
- Headline: Unheard & Dismissed: Why Are Nurses Being Denied the Very Basic?
- Headline: Over 3,500 frontline workers infected by COVID-19 in Maharashtra
- Headline: A Delhi nurse’s death reveals challenges India’s nurses face against COVID-19
- Headline: Nurses seek better facilities, equipment
Ireland
- Headline: Nurses in UK demonstrate outside Downing Street for better pay and PPE
- Headline: INMO reassured it will get information on why nearly 8,000 healthcare workers caught Covid-19
- Headline: Nurses express concern about high Covid rates in profession
- Headline: Nurses union call for independent inquiry into COVID-19 infection levels in healthcare workers
- Headline: Surge in trolley numbers as Covid-19 threat recedes
- Headline: Coronavirus in Ireland: Nurses body has positive meeting with minister over Covid-19 fears
- Headline: Investment in our health service must be the priority
Italy
- Titulo: Nursind: “L’Ausl Sud Est manda a casa infermieri e operatori sanitari”
Headline: Nursind: "Ausl Sud Est sends nurses and health workers home" - Titulo: In piazza Duomo 40 paia di scarpe per non dimenticare
Headline: In Piazza Duomo, 40 pairs of shoes to not forget - Titulo: Flashmob infermieri a Firenze, Nursind “Ci chiamano eroi ma ci hanno dimenticati”
Headline: Flashmob by nurses in Florence, Nursind: "They call us heroes but they have forgotten us" - Titulo: Asl 5 condannata: verso Nursind comportamento antisindacale
Headline: ASL 5 sentenced: anti-union behavior towards Nursind - Titulo: Nursind venerdì sotto la Regione: "Infermieri hanno diritto a riposi, dpi e test"
Headline: Nursind Friday under the Region: "Nurses are entitled to rest, dpi and tests" - Titulo: Nursind: un grazie per quello hanno fatto ai numerosi infermieri impegnati nell’emergenza Covid
Headline: Nursind: Thanks to the numerous nurses involved in the Covid emergency for what they did - Titulo: Covid-19, riconoscimento regionale per operatori sanitari: NurSind Puglia aderisce all'accordo
Headline: Covid-19, regional recognition for health workers: NurSind Puglia adheres to the agreement
Kenya
- Headline: Kisumu health workers issue 7-day strike notice
- Headline: Kisumu nurses threaten to down tools over unpaid salaries
New Zealand
Philippines
- Headline: What’s wrong with Secretary Duque?
- Headline: DoH claims all infections data updated
- Headline: Health chief blames underlings for delay in frontliners’ perks
- Headline: Healthcare workers in the Philippines on the frontline against COVID-19
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicato diz que só a sua ação permitiu recuo na contratação de enfermeiros por quatro meses
Headline: Union says that only its action allowed a retreat in the hiring of nurses for four months - Manchete: Encerramento do SAMS causou “perdas desnecessárias aos profissionais”, dizem sindicatos
Headline: SAMS closure caused "unnecessary losses to professionals", say unions - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros organiza ações de protesto
Headline: Nurses Union organizes protest actions - Manchete: O SINDICATO DOS ENFERMEIROS PORTUGUESES EXIGE QUE SEJAM VINCULADOS TODOS OS ENFERMEIROS PRECÁRIOS QUE PRESTAM SERVIÇO NA ULS DA GUARDA
Headline: THE PORTUGUESE NURSES UNION DEMANDS THAT ALL TEMPORARY NURSES WHO PROVIDE SERVICES AT THE ULS DA GUARDA BE HIRED
South Africa
- Headline: Inadequate PPE supply; a health risk to the frontline workers in Africa amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
- Headline: KZN Health to employ close to 5000 nurses in huge recruitment drive
Spain
- Titular: SATSE pide que haya enfermeras en vuelos de larga duración y en aeropuertos
Headline: SATSE calls for nurses on long-haul flights and at airports - Titular: SATSE denuncia que la plantilla de enfermeras del Centro Asistencial es “insuficiente”
Headline: SATSE denounces that the staff of nurses at the Assistance Center is "insufficient" - Titular: Advertencia de las enfermeras de Castilla-La Mancha: este verano "sería inadmisible" cerrar camas o consultas
Headline: Warning from the nurses of Castilla-La Mancha: this summer "it should be impermissible" to close beds or consultations - Titular: SATSE lamenta un nuevo verano con cierre de camas en el Hospital Universitario Torrecárdenas
Headline: SATSE deplores a new summer with the closure of beds at the Torrecárdenas University Hospital - Titular: Satse reclama el aumento de las plantillas de enfermería tras la crisis del Covid-19
Headline: Satse demands an increase in nursing staff after the Covid-19 crisis - Titular: Satse pide que este verano no se cierren camas, quirófanos ni consultas en CLM
Headline: Satse asks that this summer there are no closed beds, operating rooms or consultations at CLM
United Kingdom
- Headline: Question Time: 11 weeks into lockdown and frontline NHS staff still without PPE
- Headline: Coronavirus: PPE supplies 'stable but fragile'
- Headline: Coronavirus: changing the face of nursing
- Headline: News round-up: Catch-up on May’s major coronavirus stories
- Headline: Analysis: Lessons to learn for a second wave of Covid-19
United States
- Headline: CDC Says More Than 300 Health Care Workers Have Died of Coronavirus, But Number Is Likely Higher
- Headline: Health groups call police brutality a public health issue
- Headline: 5 Ways to Rebuild Labor and Transform America
- Headline: Nurses Are Supporting Injured #BlackLivesMatter Protesters with First Aid Care
- Headline: MN Nurses Association & NNU Release Statements on George Floyd's Death
- Headline: Health Groups Deem Racism, Police Brutality a Public Health Crisis Amid George Floyd Protests
- Headline: Nurses at 2 El Paso HCA hospitals protest pay cuts, reduced work hours and layoffs
- Headline: Nurses protest against layoffs and pay cuts they say HCA Healthcare has planned
- Headline: Coronavirus updates: Here’s what to know in Bradenton and Manatee County on May 29
- Headline: Five Filipinos listed in New York Times front page honoring those who died of COVID-19
- Headline: Nurses Rally For More Protective Equipment To Prevent Covid-19 Infection
- Headline: HCA Healthcare Hospital Nurses Protest Possible Layoffs
- Headline: Nurses, still fighting coronavirus, serve as medics at George Floyd protests
- Headline: More than 600 nurses worldwide have died from coronavirus, group says
- Headline: Nurses Are Supporting Injured #BlackLivesMatter Protesters with First Aid Care
- Headline: Coronavirus Has Killed More Than 300 U.S. Healthcare Workers
- Headline: Update on Coronavirus Cases in the US: Positive Patients Reach 1.8 Million
- Headline: Nurses Join Forces Nationally to Warn Against Early Reopening
- Headline: At the Bay Area’s hardest-hit coronavirus hospital, frontline workers ask: Is the worst really over?
- Headline: In America, Black deaths are not a flaw in the system. They are the system
- Headline: County sends letter to Regional hospital warning closure of maternity ward may violate agreement
- Headline: North Carolina nurses stand on the brink of a historic labor victory
- Headline: Killing Workers (and Customers) – With No Liability
- Headline: 'Long-standing issues with health care disparities' lead health care workers to protests
- Headline: Santa Clara County sends letter to Regional hospital warning closure of maternity ward may violate agreement
- Headline: Major unions in Minnesota call for Lt. Bob Kroll to resign as president of police union
- Headline: Nurses Are Helping Injured People At #BlackLivesMatter Protests
- Headline: Labor groups call for Bob Kroll to resign from Minneapolis police union