Nurses to Women & Infants Hospital: stop hiring scabs (‘travel nurses’)
An all day picket was held at Women & Infants Hospital yesterday to call attention to the problem of temporary, out-of-state “travel nurses” filling scheduling holes than hiring in-state nurses...
View ArticleHealth care workers to call on Care New England to stop plundering patient care
Health care workers, 1199 SEIU Rhode Island members and allies will hold an informational picket at Women & Infants Hospital, a Care New England hospital, to protest Care New England’s failure to...
View ArticleNurses union pickets for more staff, better benefits
The corners of Eddy and Dudley streets were lost in a blur of purple as more than 400 nurses and other professionals working at Rhode Island Hospital picketed for higher wages, retirement benefits, and...
View ArticleNurses, health care workers to picket at Women & Infants
Nurses and health care workers from Women & Infants Hospital will be joined by allies in an informational picket for GOOD JOBS, SAFE STAFFING, and QUALITY CARE. Health care workers have made Women...
View ArticleAmerica needs more nurses on boards of directors
Who do you ask when you have a question about caring for a sick loved one? How about if you have a question at a hospital, clinic, or doctor’s office? When you want someone with a detailed knowledge...
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