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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina
- Titular: El acuerdo por el bono de 3.500 pesos a los estatales se firma el lunes
Headline: The agreement for bonuses of 3,500 pesos from the state to be signed on Monday - Titular: Sectores de Salud siguen reclamando aumento salarial en Neuquén
Headline: Health sectors continue to demand wage increase in Neuquen - Titular: Sindicato de enfermeros no acepta el bono
Headline: Nurses union does not accept the bonus
Australia
- Headline: Hundreds turn out for CUB55
- Headline: Large crowd at Port Kembla Hospital rally
- Headline: Staff shortages force surgeons to use 'sticky tape' to fix surgical instruments
- Headline: Under-resourcing raises ‘significant risk of increased sickness and death’ at RHH, says AMA as it joins the Save the Royal campaign
Canada
- Headline: Nurses and firefighters team up to demand more staff to deal with overdose crisis
- Headline: Nurses’ and firefighters’ unions demand more funding in face of overdose crisis
- Headline: Canada's nurses serve up new survey findings leading up to premier's dinner meeting on health care
- Headline: Quebec nurses' union says MUHC refusing to answer questions about budget cuts
- Headline: Union decries RN losses; BMHC denies cuts made
- Headline: Steve Kent blames Liberals for nursing cuts, union says PCs brought in policy
- Headline: P.E.I.’s reservations on CETA too vague, don’t assure safety of public health care system
France
- Titre: La maternité de l'hôpital Tenon à Paris en grève depuis dix jours
Headline: Maternity ward of Tenon Hospital in Paris on strike for ten days - Titre: Pontoise : le calendrier choc des infirmières de l’hôpital fait le buzz
Headline: Pontoise: the shocking calendar of hospital nurses causes a buzz - Titre: Pessac : une nouvelle journée de grève à l’hôpital Haut-Lévêque
Headline: Pessac: A new day of strikes in Upper Leveque Hospital - Titre: Il y a urgence aux urgences de Nîmes
Headline: There is an urgency in the Nîmes ER - Titre: Nîmes : mouvement de grève au CHU
Headline: Nîmes: movement to strike at CHU
Ireland
- Headline: Fitness-to-practise inquiries 'making nurses feel suicidal'
- Headline: 48 patients on trolleys in local hospitals
- Headline: Nurses at Cavan hospital to launch lunchtime protest tomorrow
- Headline: Almost half of nurses who came home under HSE recruitment scheme have left again, INMO claims
- Headline: Health Minister Simon Harris vows to "drive down" waiting lists at LUH
- Headline: Minister gives assurances on health spending during visit to Donegal
- Headline: 541 waiting for hospital beds as nurses' union calls for emergency measures
- Headline: More than 540 people on trolleys at Irish hospitals today
- Headline: Nurses warn on bed closures after 541 patients on trolleys yesterday
- Headline: Patients face further chaos as nurses to vote in favour of work-to-rule
- Headline: There are nearly 540 patients waiting for a hospital bed today
- Headline: 'They are not listening to us'
- Headline: Almost 550 patients on trolleys in one day
- Headline: INMO calls on HSE to introduce emergency nurse staffing
- Headline: 541 languish on trolleys as staff shortages shut beds
- Headline: HSE expected to promise waiting list plan for 2017
- Headline: INMO members protesting as 541 patients wait on trolleys
- Headline: Hospital trolley numbers surge as strike threat looms
- Headline: Why is the HSE's nurse recruitment scheme not working?
- Headline: Half of nurses recruited under €244,000 recruitment drive leave the country
- Headline: Nurses' group claims hospital waiting list "crisis" is now an "emergency"
- Headline: Less than 100 nurses recruited HSE drive
- Headline: Government plans ‘more attractive’ career pathways for nurses
- Headline: INMO calls on HSE to introduce emergency nurse staffing
- Headline: Will it work? Bid to lure nurses back by appealing to their sentimental Christmas-side
- Headline: HSE Service Plan slammed by medical organisations
Kenya
- Headline: Nurses’ strike driven by huge disparities in salaries and allowances
- Headline: Nurses to Hold Talks With Health Officials
- Headline: Kenya: Nurses to Resume Talks With Govt in Bid to End Strike
- Headline: Hold fresh pay negotiations with doctors to end strike, Isaac Ruto tells governors
- Headline: Isaac Ruto urges governors to negotiate with striking workers
- Headline: Kenyan health workers' strike set to escalate
- Headline: Talks progressing well with solution to end strike in sight : Panyako
- Headline: Progress being made in talks between Govt and nurses
- Titre: Kenya : le personnel médical en grève menace de fermer les établissements privés
Headline: Kenya: the striking medical staff threatens to close private establishments - Headline: Nurses' union officials say strike is still on
- Headline: Monday meeting to decide way forward, say striking nurses
- Headline: Nurses, gov’t strike deal to end week-long strike
- Headline: Nurses strike called off after gov’t signs deal with union
- Headline: Government, Union calls off nurses' strike, to ink deal
- Headline: Kenya: Nurses' work boycott ends after Sh7b deal
- Headline: Nyeri nurses urged to resume work, told strike called off
- Headline: Nurses reject Sh7b deal, declare strike still on in Kenya public hospitals
- Headline: Nurses union calls off strike, signs pact with governors
- Headline: Deal inked, strike ends, nurses back to work, doctors still out
- Titre: Kenya : les infirmières arrêtent leur grève
Headline: Kenya: Nurses stop their strike - Titular: Enfermeras de hospitales públicos de Kenia ponen fin a su huelga y vuelven al trabajo
Headline: Public hospital nurses in Kenya end strike and return to work
Malta
- Headline: Nurses’ union threatens industrial action over promotion results
- Titular: Levantan paro médicos y enfermeras en Oaxaca
Headline: Raises for doctors and nurses in Oaxaca - Titular: Hasta el 15 de diciembre, paro en sector salud de Oaxaca
Headline: Until 15 December, health sector strike in Oaxaca
Mexico
New Zealand
- Headline: Waikato DHB chief gets extra $100,000 in pay packet
- Headline: Hospital staff must not be 'short-changed' in Crown land swap, union warns
- Headline: Government leaves nursing graduates languishing again
Paraguay
Peru
Portugal
- Manchete: Hospitais estão a dever mais de 67 mil dias de folga aos enfermeiros
Headline: Hospitals owe more than 67,000 days off to nurses - Manchete: Hospitais devem mais de 67 mil dias de folga aos enfermeiros
Headline: Hospitals owe nurses more than 67,000 days off - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros considera "inadmissíveis" consultas à chuva
Headline: Nurses’ Union considers "inadmissible" rain queries - Manchete: Eleição com 61% de abstenção reelege José Azevedo para Sindicato dos Enfermeiros
Headline: Election with 61% of abstention reelected José Azevedo for Nurses' Union - Manchete: José Correia Azevedo reeleito presidente do Sindicato dos Enfermeiros
Headline: José Correia Azevedo re-elected president of the Nurses' Union - Manchete: Dois candidatos disputam hoje eleições para Sindicato dos Enfermeiros
Headline: Two candidates are in the running today for president of the Union of Nurses
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Los jueces aplican el criterio de igualdad europeo en los despidos de personal temporal
Headline: Judges apply the criterion of European equality in layoffs of temporary staff - Titular: "La enfermería debería ser clave para prevenir el acoso escolar"
Headline: "Nursing should be key to preventing bullying" - Titular: Satse denuncia la falta "crónica de personal" en Urgencias del Reina Sofía
Headline: Satse denounces the missing "staff report" in the Reina Sofia ER - Titular: Firmado el V Convenio de la Sanidad Privada de Valladolid para el próximo lustro, que contempla incrementos salariales
Headline: The V Convention of Private Health of Valladolid is signed for the next five years, which includes wage increases - Titular: SATSE Ciudad Real exige al Sescam medidas para evitar agresiones a los profesionales
Headline: SATSE Ciudad Real demands the Sescam measures to prevent attacks on professionals - Titular: Profesionales protestan por las agresiones a los sanitarios
Headline: Professionals protest against the attacks on health workers - Titular: Satse denuncia que el 97% de los pueblos carece de matrona
Headline: Satse condemns that 97% of people lacking midwife - Titular: Satse gana en el TSJA una sentencia que reconoce como tiempo de trabajo el relevo entre turnos de enfermería
Headline: Satse wins in the TSJA a sentence that recognizes breaks between nursing shifts as working time - Titular: Evitar agresiones sanitarias
Headline: Health workers attacks avoided - Titular: Satse denuncia que sólo hay 57 camas en las UCI pediátricas en todo Madrid
Headline: Satse denounces that there are only 57 beds in pediatric ICUs around Madrid - Titular: La firma del acuerdo por los dos hospitales no desactiva las protestas
Headline: The signing of the agreement between the two hospitals does not quell protests - Titular: Satse pide un acuerdo oficial para recuperar el sueldo perdido en la crisis
Headline: Satse calls for a formal agreement to recover lost wages in the crisis - Titular: SATSE anuncia el 'colapso' en los hospitales en Navidad por la falta de sustituciones
Headline: SATSE announces the 'collapse' in hospitals at Christmas due to lack of substitutions - Titular: Satse cree que la consejera de Sanidad y el gerente del SMS "quieren confundir a la opinión pública"
Headline: SATSE believes that the Minister of Health and the manager of SMS "want to confuse public opinion" - Titular: Los sindicatos lanzan una ofensiva para paliar la precariedad del sector sanitario
Headline: Unions launch a fight against precariousness in the health sector
United Kingdom
- Headline: Broadmoor Hospital issued with CQC warning notice over staffing
- Headline: Nurse supervision of HCAs ‘must be factored into staffing’ under new Wales law
- Headline: Grandad left in 'dirty' conditions as Royal Bolton Hospital staffing shortages leave nurses struggling
- Headline: Nurses threaten to protest over temp staff pay
United States
- Headline: Fight looms over future of Social Security, Medicare
- Headline: Faux-Populist Trump Wages All-Out War on American Workers
- Headline: Trump launches war on unions
- Headline: DNC chair fight puts labor in tough spot
- Headline: Trump pick for Labor Department wants to destroy unions
- Headline: San Diego Labor Opposes Dakota Access Pipeline
- Headline: The Administrative Hurdles of the Nurse Licensure Compact
- Headline: Delayed investigations against California nurses could pose risk to patients, audit finds
- Headline: California auditor blasts state nursing board for investigation delays