Until Elected Officials Champion Medicare for All, They Can Expect Nurses at Their Offices

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Nurses march at Medicare For All public address
Healthy leadership is required to pass healthy legislation, and that makes for a healthy society. If our leaders don't have the political will to fight for healthy legislation—Senator Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Act, S.1804 being a prime example—then we are, as a country, fundamentally unwell.
Bonnie Castillo, NNU Director of Health & Safety
California
Nationwide

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Threatens the Public’s Health and Safety

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Imagine big corporations, in the name of profits, could override national or state laws meant to protect you, your patients, and your families. This world of higher drug prices, lax food safety regulations, and overturned climate protections could be on the horizon, thanks to risky, impending trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Speaker Rendon is being neither Democratic nor democratic

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Two weeks ago, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon unilaterally decided to stop Senate Bill 562, The Healthy California Act, in its tracks, and not allow it to be heard or voted on in the Assembly. Rendon’s flacks, apologists and statepaid employees have embarked on a bizarre campaign to make him look a hero for taking action to hijack this healthcare bill. Far from making him out to be a hero, here is why what Rendon has done is neither Democratic nor democratic.

Why RNs are on Strike — In Their Own Words

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Northern California RNs

 
“We’re fighting for patient safety, we’re fighting against unsafe staffing. We believe patients deserve better.  I’m inspired by my colleagues who are willing to step up and take on the Sutter Health corporation in the name of safe patient care,” said Jennifer Barker Tilly, an emergency room RN, one of 1,000 RNs represented by CNA at Sutter Roseville.
 

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