Management Refuses To Accept Safe Staffing Language After being at the bargaining table for 15 months, the Registered Nurses of Cooley Dickinson Hospital continue to fight for safe staffing language… Read more »
Year: 2011
Cooley Dickinson Nurses Schedule Informational Picket
Wall Street Transaction Tax Would Raise $350 Billion
WASHINGTON — A minuscule tax on financial transactions proposed by congressional Democrats would raise more than $350 billion over the next nine years, according to an analysis by the Joint… Read more »
Join MCNP November 14 as Massachusetts recognizes National NP Week
Dear Colleague, As you may already be aware, November 13-19 th is National Nurse Practitioner week. In response to a request from the MCNP leadership, Governor Deval Patrick will be… Read more »
After CDC Calls for Hospitals to Improve Breastfeeding Services, UMass Memorial Announces Plan to Degrade Its Program, Which Serves Some of the Most Vulnerable Mothers and Infants in the Commonwealth
Plans to Layoff Highly Experienced RNs & Outsource Care to Non-Nurses
Washington Post: Wall Street’s resurgent prosperity frustrates its claims, and Obama’s
Middle classes let out another shriek of pain, this time in DC
The Irish Times – Saturday, November 5, 2011
Big corporations use loopholes to dodge taxes, report says
WASHINGTON – Many of this country’s biggest companies paid no federal taxes — or even made money through credits and refunds from the government — over the past three years… Read more »
Union Pressure, OWS Protests Tear Down a Barrier to Taxing Speculators
Does protesting and pressuring powerful players in political and economic life matter? Can the White House and Congress really be moved on questions so central as taxing financial speculation? Yes…. Read more »
