New York Nurses Secure Huge Gains for Patient Safety with Mandatory Overtime Victory

After six years of campaigning, 1199SEIU registered nurses in New York can take credit for an enormous victory for their patients and themselves. Both the State Senate and Assemby have passed a new law—which the Governor has agreed to sign--banning mandatory overtime for nurses, to take effect in 2009.

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Pennsylvania Nurses Push Lawmakers to Ban Forced Overtime

Last spring, urged on by SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, the state’s House of Representatives voted 166-31 to ban mandatory overtime for nurses. Now the nurses are aggressively lobbying the state Senate to move the bill out of committee.

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A Good, First Step

Chris Barton, RN

In the past, the nurses of SEIU Healthcare 1199NW proposed mandated staffing ratios in the legislature, but met with stiff opposition from the Washington Hospital Association. But last spring, says Chris Barton, RN, "the association approached us and the Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA) and suggested that we try a different route and jointly go to the legislature with a different bill, which was in fact passed in April.

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Iowa Nurses, School Workers Battle Floods for Survival

It wasn’t New Orleans and it wasn’t a force-five hurricane, but the members of SEIU Healthcare Local 199 in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, feel like they’ve survived their own Katrina.

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SENATOR OBAMA TELLS CONVENTION, ‘TOGETHER WE WILL CHANGE OUR COUNTRY’

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