Registered nurses at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a three-year contract Monday. This is the first-ever union contract at ASCMA, which is the largest private-sector hospital in Texas to form a nurses union.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Ascension has cut a quarter of its labor and delivery units in the past decade amidst a nationwide rise in pregnancy- and childbirth-related mortality, according to new analysis released today by National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union of registered nurses.
Registered nurses in the resident and fellow programs at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin, Tex., voted overwhelmingly, with 96 percent in favor, to join NNOC/NNU.
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Union nurses at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin today stood in support behind their coworkers, who are facing management’s attempted retaliation for exercising their rights to advocate for patient safety. Following nurses’ one-day strike and management’s three-day lockout of striking nurses, management proceeded to erroneously investigate nurses.
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Nurses at three Ascension-owned facilities in Austin, Texas, and Wichita, Kan., condemn Ascension management for proceeding with a three-day lockout following the RNs’ one-day strike at their hospitals on Dec. 6.
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RNs at Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin in Texas reported today that Day Supervisor, Leighan Graham and Perinatal Director, Rachelle LaBonte, would not allow a nurse to work her shift in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) this morning in anticipation of the nurses’ one-day strike on Dec. 6.
Registered nurses in Texas and Kansas at three Ascension hospitals are moving forward with historic one-day strikes on Wednesday, December 6, to protest unsafe conditions management has failed to remedy, announced National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United.
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Registered nurses in Texas and Kansas at three Ascension hospitals gave notice today to their employer that they will hold one-day strikes on Wednesday, December 6 to protest unsafe conditions management has failed to remedy.
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Registered nurses at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas will confront hospital management on Wednesday, Nov. 22 to protest management’s failure to bargain for fair contracts that protect patient safety and retain staff.
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Nurses say that, as Ascension management builds a new tower for women’s services, the company is failing to safely staff the existing labor and delivery unit and neonatal intensive care unit.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
