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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina
Australia
- Headline: Doctors, nurses strike pay deals for 1.5 per cent increases with WA Government
- Headline: Queensland health job losses in Cairns, Townsville predicted for coming year: union
- Headline: Nurses strike not ruled out for future
Canada
- Titre: De moins en moins d'infirmières à temps complet à Rimouski
Headline: Fewer and fewer full-time nurses in Rimouski - Headline: Elgin St. Thomas Public Health Nurses Heading to Conciliation: Nurses seeking new collective agreement
Costa Rica
France
Ireland
- Headline: INMO: €457m increase not enough to revive health service
- Headline: 'We aren't nurses anymore: we are slaves' - Irish nurses explain why they've had enough
- Titular: La carta de una enfermera que revela qué pasa en los hospitals
Headline: A nurse's letter reveals what happens in hospitals - Headline: Nurses feel ‘abused’ by State and will ballot for industrial action
- Headline: INMO to ballot on industrial action if 'demands not met'
- Headline: INMO to ballot nurses over 'unsafe' conditions and 'inadequate staffing'
- Headline: INMO signals work-to-rule if pay and staff demands unmet
- Headline: INMO calls for action on pay, staffing levels
- Headline: Over 400 patients waiting on hospital beds
- Headline: Numbers waiting for hospital bed stay above 400
- Headline: 'My husband was on a trolley for 52 hours' at Limerick hospital
- Headline: University Hospital Galway has longest waiting lists nationwide by significant margin
- Headline: INMO signals work-to-rule if pay and staff demands unmet
- Headline: Hospitals facing chaotic winter as nurses near strike
- Headline: 'Annihilated' nurses are out on their feet
- Headline: INMO calls for action on pay, staffing levels
- Headline: Simon Harris: Chaotic Emergency Department had impact on me
- Headline: The HSE spent nearly €200 million on agency staff in seven months
- Headline: HSE pay 200 million euro for agency staff in 7 months
- Headline: Psychiatric nurses union pushes for pay restoration
Kenya
- Headline: Meru County to hire more nurses
- Headline: Nurses protest arrest of two colleagues over patient’s death
- Headline: Youth pelt striking Meru health workers with stones
- Headline: Striking Meru health workers call for enhanced security after stoning incident
- Headline: Medical services in Busia County paralysed following nurses strike
- Headline: Busia nurses on strike over promotion, pay
Paraguay
- Titular: Enfermeras se movilizan hasta el Parlamento Nacional
Headline: Nurses mobilize outside National Parliament - Titular: Enfermeras siguen marcha por sus derechos
Headline: Nurses continue to fight for their rights - Titular: Enfermeros vuelven a movilizarse en repudio por el fallo de la Corte
Headline: Nurses return to mobilize in repudiation of the judgment of the Court - Titular: Enfermeras analizan ir a un paro general
Headline: Nurses analyze to go on a general strike
Philippines
- Headline: Health workers ask Alvarez: Restore P1.5 billion slashed from public hospitals
- Headline: Duterte’s #First100 days | ‘No change for health sector’
- Headline: Low budget, neglect cripple POC
Portugal
- Manchete: Dezenas de enfermeiros em prostesto frente ao Ministério da Saúde
Headline: Dozens of nurses protest in front of the Ministry of Health - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros diz que carência destes profissionais de saúde em Portalegre "é um caso de pasmar"
Headline: Nurses’ Union says that the lack of health professionals in Portalegre “an unprecedented situation” - Manchete: Adesão à greve dos enfermeiros entre os 72% e os 75% nos hospitais do SNS
Headline: Accession to the strike by nurses between 72% and 75% in NHS hospitals
Spain
- Titular: SATSE reclama al presidente del Gobierno español que acabe con la discriminación de los profesionales enfermeros
Headline: SATSE urges the Spanish prime minister to end discrimination of professional nurses - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería denuncia el mantenimiento de camas cerradas en verano en el Hospital de Huelva (Andalucía)
Headline: Nurses’ Union denounces the continued closure of beds in summer in Hospital de Huelva (Andalucía) - Titular: SATSE rechaza que las enfermeras formen parte de las unidades de gestión clínica en los hospitales de Castilla y León
Headline: SATSE denounces that nurses work in the clinical management units in hospitals of Castilla and Leon - Titular: Enfermería critica que el Gobierno de Castilla-La Mancha suspenda temporalmente la contratación de personal
Headline: Nurses criticize the Government of Castilla-La Mancha for temporarily suspending recruitment - Titular: SATSE se opondrá a nuevos recortes en la sanidad de las Islas Canarias
Headline: SATSE oppose further cuts in the health of the Canary Islands - Titular: SATSE advierte sobre un posible colapso sanitario en la campaña de vacunación
Headline: SATSE warns of a possible health collapse in the vaccination campaign - Titular: El RD de prescripción enfermera podría poner en riesgo la vacuna contra la gripe
Headline: The RD of nurse prescribing could jeopardize the flu vaccine - Titular: Toma hospital otro sindicato
Headline: Nurses demonstrate outside of hospital - Titular: Satse denuncia la falta de diligencia del hospital a ante un "caso probado" de acoso laboral
Headline: Satse denounces the lack of care from the hospital to a "proven case" of mobbing
United States
- Headline: Striking Minnesota nurses reach tentative agreement
- Headline: Sanders absolves Clinton on hacked emails but other voices on the left are angry
- Headline: Proposition 61 will help reduce outrageous prescription drug prices
- Manchete: A política progressista pós-Bernie Sanders
Headline: The post-Bernie Sanders progressive politics - Headline: He’s back…Bernie Sanders to rally in L.A., S.F. for drug measure
- Headline: After 17 Hours, Minnesota Nurses Association and Allina Health Reach Tentative Agreement
- Headline: Nurses Union Gives ‘Unanimous Endorsement’ Of New Allina Deal, Likely Ending Strike
- Headline: Striking Minnesota nurses reach tentative agreement
- Headline: Allina strike ends, nurses' decision awaits
- Headline: Allina, striking nurses reach tentative deal
- Headline: After 17 Hour Negotiating Session, Nurses & Allina Health Reach Tentative Agreement
- Headline: Allina, nurse negotiators agree on contract, union votes Thursday
- Headline: Allina and nurses reach deal to halt strike
- Headline: Allina, nurses reach tentative deal after marathon talks
- Headline: Striking nurses, Allina reach tentative deal
- Headline: Nurses, Allina reach tentative agreement
- Headline: 17-hour contract talks yields agreement between Allina, striking nurses
- Headline: Nurses Use Scrubs to Represent Those Who Have Quit During Allina Strike
- Headline: Governor seeks meeting to resolve strike by Allina Health nurses
- Headline: Dayton invites Allina, nurses to his house to negotiate
- Headline: Allina, nurses to negotiate at Dayton's residence
- Headline: Allina, nurses' union to meet Monday with Dayton
- Headline: Dayton Meets with Negotiators for Allina Health and Nurses' Union
- Headline: Contract talks appear halted as Allina nurse strike approaches record
- Headline: Fifty-three nurses files claims against Twin Cities hospital
- Headline: 53 nurses allege labor violations at Twin Cities Community Hospital
- Headline: Dozens of nurses claim workplace violations at Twin Cities Community Hospital in Templeton
- Headline: Twin Cities Hospital nurses file labor complaints
- Headline: Big pharma spending big dollars to defeat California measure
- Headline: How to get a handle on rising prescription drug prices
- Headline: Quite the propositions: California voters will choose sides on a variety of statewide initiatives
- Headline: Sanders will return to California for Proposal 61 canvassing