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Stand with Danbury Nurses!

Walk the line with caregivers working to secure a fair union contract!
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Faces of Nuvance Health

The Faces of Nuvance Health project is focused on sharing the stories of the women and men who provide and support bedside patient care in the chain's hospitals and facilities.
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Share Your "Safe Patient Limits" Selfie Today!

Help raise public awareness of our collective solution to unsafe staffing levels.

Celebrate Nurses' Week

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American Opinion Project

AFL-CIO asking you to share your opinions about working family issues.

It’s called the American Opinion Project, and it’s a new research survey that’s collecting thoughts from working people like you and me on critical issues that matter to all of us.

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Keeping Current About Labor Numbers

Keeping Current


  • U.S. nonfarm payrolls grew by 215,000 new jobs in March. The average monthly gain last year was 228,700 positions. 1
  • The unemployment rate ticked up to 5.0% in March from February’s 4.9%. A year ago, the unemployment rate stood at 5.5%.1
  • The civilian labor force grew 1.5% in the year ending in March 2016, the fastest year-ago pace since early 2007. The gain represents an additional 2.4 million adults who are either employed or are actively looking for work. Over the past three months, the labor force has expanded at an annualized 3.7% rate.1
  • The increase in the labor force pushed
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Call for the reinstatement of Liberian health union leaders

PSI calls on all its affiliates to support the reinstatement of of two union leaders dismissed in February 2014 with 22 other workers, following a nationwide strike in protest of working conditions and the lack of protective equipment and medication.


 

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Trade Justice Alliance Webinar

There are many things wrong with the Trans-Pacific Partnership and with "Free Trade" in general: shrinking wages, job offshoring, threats to the environment and natural resources, food safety, digital freedom, access to affordable medicine, LGBT discrimination, and more. What hasn't been part of the discussion is how one constituency stands to suffer more than many of us realize: the world's women. And not just for obvious reasons of declining wages and lost jobs. Many of America's trading partners have laws in place blatantly discriminating against women and children, virtually legalizing

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Patients Before Profits

 
Patients before profits—our members know what these words mean better than anyone. We’ve seen corporations buy hospitals and then raise prices, cut staff and reduce essential services.

The Federal Trade Commission reviews these types of corporate deals to make sure patients don’t lose out in the process.


 

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