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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia
- Headline: Nurses union pushes for nurse-to-patient ratio legislation
- Headline: Village rejects union call
- Headline: Calls for mandatory flu vaccine for aged care workers
- Headline: Nambour hospital faces $400m funding hit
Brazil
- Manchete: Enfermeiros de Santana e Palmeira comemoram acordo coletivo
Headline: Nurses of Santana and Palmeira commemorate collective agreement - Manchete: Enfermeiros fazem "passeata de jalecos" em BH para exigir valorização da profissão
Headline: Nurses make “march coats” in BH to demand appreciation of the profession - Manchete: Enfermeiros e técnicos entram em greve em Várzea Grande (MT)
Headline: Nurses and technicians go on strike in Várzea Grande (MT) - Manchete: Enfermeiros entram em greve em Várzea Grande
Headline: Nurses go on strike in Várzea Grande - Manchete: Prefeitura anuncia aumento e greve dos enfermeiros é suspensa
Headline: City Hall announces increase and nurses’ strike is suspended
Canada
- Headline: Hundreds Gather at Confederation Building for RNU Protest
- Headline: Demonstrations demand public funding to keep 'doctor-less' Quebec clinic from closing its doors
- Headline: Nurses rally against health cuts
- Titre: SABSA: Gaétan Barrette maintient sa position
Headline: SABSA: Gaétan Barrette maintains his position - Headline: Nurses taunt John Haggie during St. John's rally
- Headline: 'Stretched pretty thin': Hospitals operating overcapacity taking its toll, nurses union says
China
France
- Titre: Angers. Les urgences du CHU en grève reconductible dès lundi
Headline: Angers. The University Hospital ER on indefinite strike on Monday - Titre: Rouen : la grève à la clinique Mathilde reconduite jeudi 19 mai
Headline: Rouen: strike at the Mathilde clinic renewed Thursday, May 19
Ghana
Honduras
- Titular: Enfermeras se suman al paro en el Rivas, reclaman un aumento
Headline: Nurses join the strike in Rivas, demanding an increase - Titular: Enfermeras dicen que Salud les debe L53 millones
Headline: Nurses say that Health owe them L53 million - Titular: Enfermeros anuncian paro de labores en San Pedro Sula
Headline: Nurses announce labor stoppage in San Pedro Sula - Titular: Médicos y enfermeras a punto de irse a las calles por incumplimiento de Gobierno de compromisos salariales
Headline: Doctors and nurses about to go to the streets for breach of Government wage commitments - Titular: Amenaza con paro laboral gremio de enfermeras en Honduras
Headline: Nurses’ union threatens with labor stoppage in Honduras
India
- Headline: Nursing staff, Group D workers protest
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Headline: The nurses were not demands, an indefinite strike from June 1 - Headline: South Indian staff nurses go on strike in Kolkata nursing home
- Headline: Nurses protest against outsourcing of vacancies in hospitals
- Headline: The Kapil Sharma Show objectified nurses and it’s no laughing matter
Ireland
- Headline: UHG psychiatric nurses to be balloted
- Headline: Nurses call off industrial action at Drogheda hospital
- Headline: In the corridors…people were getting sick, bleeding, in absolute agony’ – Woman describes overcrowded Irish hospital as worse than refugee camp
- Headline: Celtic Tiger pay 'will not return' for public sector
- Headline: New minister must do more to incentivise nursing jobs
Kenya
- Headline: Nandi Governor orders sacking of 200 nurses over strike
- Headline: Nurses call for harmonisation of salaries
- Headline: Kenya: Cotu Polls a Litmus Test for Atwoli and Team
Nigeria
Pakistan
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: Investimentos no Hospital – “Mais vale tarde do que nunca”, diz Sindicato dos Enfermeiros
Headline: Investments in the Hospital—“Better late than never,” says the Nurses’ Union - Manchete: "Vai ser necessário contratar 900 a mil enfermeiros até dia 1 de junho"
Headline: “It will be necessary to hire 900 to a thousand nurses until June 1” - Manchete: Centeno: enfermeiros terão “período de adaptação nas 35 horas”
Headline: Centeno: nurses will have “period of adjustment in 35 hours”
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Médicos y enfermeros ganan las elecciones sindicales en Mallorca
Headline: Doctors and nurses win union elections in Mallorca - Titular: Convocan una huelga de enfermería contra la organización "impuesta" en las urgencias del Valme
Headline: Calling a nursing strike against the organization “imposed” in the Valme ER - Titular: Las matronas de Málaga «ensayan» una posible huelga
Headline: Málaga midwives “tested” a possible strike - Titular: Satse vuelve a denunciar la falta de enfermeras en el área de recién nacidos
Headline: Satse again denounces the lack of nurses in the area of newborns
Taiwan
- Headline: Nurses protest outside of ministry
- Headline: Commitment to extend Wales staffing legislation in new government
- Headline: Plan to train NHS nurses to cover for doctors sparks alarm
- Headline: Commitment to extend Wales nurse staffing legislation in new government
USA
- Headline: Sanders has it exactly right; majority of Americans want Medicare for all system
- Headline: Bill to Step Up Public Safety Protections for Hospital Patients
- Headline: Union Support Still Crucial for Democratic Presidential Contenders
- Headline: Down with the Duopoly: The Republicans Have Split; Now It’s the Democrat’s Turn
- Headline: Bill to Step Up Public Safety Protections for Hospital Patients
- Headline: Workers suffer as Nabisco CEO makes millions, moves Oreo production line to Mexico
- Headline: BERNIE versus Big Pharma
- Headline: Legislation pushes to ease nurse workload in Ohio
- Headline: Brigham and Women's nurses to picket Tuesday
- Headline: In contract talks, Allina, nurses spar over health insurance
- Headline: Break Free: LA demands end to neighborhood drilling
- Headline: On the news with Thom Hartman: shift away from traditional pensions contributes to inequality, and more
- Headline: Legislation pushes to ease nurse workload in Ohio
- Headline: In wake of Taunton killings, advocates argue need for more mental health services
- Headline: Economic Driver: Bay State nurses excluded from national nursing compact
- Headline: Democrats face convention battle, as well
- Headline: Sanders Has it Exactly Right: Majority of Americans Want “Medicare for All” System
- Headline: Bernie Sanders Facing Pressure Over Supporters’ Actions in Nevada
- Headline: Where’s the outrage on Nevada, asks pro-Sanders union
- Headline: In fight with Allina over health insurance, nurses not backing down
- Headline: Climate activists converge in Midwest on global day of action