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By Liz ShawFlint Journal OKEMOS, Michigan—A press release this morning from the Michigan Nurses Association has announced the founding of the National Nurses United (NNU), a new national nursing union… Read more »

By Jay GreeneCrain’s Detroit Business Seven months after Okemos-based Michigan Nurses Association withdrew from the American Nurses Association, the 10,000-member state union and lobbying organization has joined the newly formed… Read more »

By Imani RandolphABC (Channel 15) PHOENIX–About 200 RNs representing every state in the union are marching on the Offices of the Arizona Hospital Association, fresh from the founding convention of… Read more »

By Iain WoessnerArizona Capital Times PHOENIX – Hospital care suffers because overworked nurses are assigned too many patients and are unable to voice their concerns out of fear of reprisals… Read more »

By Peggy McDaniel, BSN, RNOff the Charts – AJN Blog Yesterday a new and powerful union was formed. The National Nurses United brings over 150,000 nurses together by combining the… Read more »

PHOENIX – Following impassioned speeches by Stewart Acuff, special assistant to AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka, and Linda Silas, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, Monday morning’s business meeting… Read more »

By Stephanie Smith, CNN Medical Producer December 8, 2009 4:18 p.m. EST Damaged lung tissue is seen as light gray and healthy lung tissue is seen as dark gray in… Read more »

By Lindsay BeyersteinFrom Working in These Times: News and Commentary on Worker’s Struggles Nurses have been called the new face of organized labor. Like an increasing percentage of the rest… Read more »