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USW Ratifies Collective Bargaining Agreement With Appalachian Regional Healthcare
USW Announces Tentative Agreement With Appalachian Regional Healthcare
Rhode Island Committee Votes to End Mandatory Overtime for Nurses
Robert Wood Johnson Nurses Ratify New Agreement, Win Quality Health Care
USW Among RNs Working Together Rallying in Chicago
Nurses Unions Launch Unprecedented National Effort To Coordinate Unionization And Patients’ Rights Campaigns
Steelworkers continue to lead the fight for “HealthCare-NOW!”
Solidarity Forever - Actions That Work!
Health Care Employees Report Cites Scarcity of Minorities In Health Professions, Identifies Solutions
HIPAA ALERT!
Test Your HIPAA IQ - True or False?
States Ready to Ban Mandatory Overtime
Learning a Lesson from Down Under
Workplace Actions Are The Key To Success
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Injury Rates a Problem at Nursing Homes
Legislation Proposed for Safe Staffing Levels at Health Care Facilities
Short Staffing/Hours of Work
Study: Low Staff Levels Lead to Poor Patient Outcomes
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Facts on Mandatory Overtime
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Legislative Information -- U.S.
Future of Healthcare in Canada




Political Action
 

Legislative Information -- U.S.
HOW TRADE RULES THREATEN HEALTH CARE WORKERS & CONSUMERS SAME AGENDA; NEW PLAYING FIELD: Corporations have been working for the last several decades to transform health care into a corporatized, profit-driven industry. For workers, their efforts have meant increasing job pressures without commensurate increases in pay. Now health care corporations are ...... more

Future of Healthcare in Canada
Testimony of Leo W. GerardInternational PresidentUnited Steelworkersbefore theCommission on the Future of Health Care in CanadaSudbury, OntarioApril 11, 2002 Introduction Thank you very much, Mr. Commissioner. My name is Leo Gerard. I am the International President of the United Steelworkers. I appreciate the opportunity to speak ...... more