Governor Newsom signs the Secure Hospitals for All bill (AB 2975), aimed at keeping healthcare workers and patients safe by reducing or eliminating the presence of weapons in hospitals.
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Nurses will join more than 10,000 others in Union’s ranks at hospitals throughout Southern California.
“Secure Hospitals for All,” legislation authored by Assemblymember Gipson (D-Carson) and backed by healthcare union SEIU 121RN, will soon be heard in the California Senate, after passing the Assembly in May. The bill aims to bolster hospital security by installing metal detectors at key entrances, and by changing policies on search and seizure of weapons.
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As a union representing more than 10,000 Nurses and Licensed Healthcare Professionals, SEIU 121RN joins the chorus of calls for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict in Gaza and Israel.
After six months of negotiations, HCA fails to make progress on staffing, patient and worker safety, while engaging in egregious union-busting campaign, union members say.
Tentative agreement reached with Kaiser will address concerns on staffing, retention, nurses say.
CDPH all-facilities letter follows union led campaign on post-pandemic enforcement.
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Union Nurses say that Garfield’s parent company AHMC has ignored their contract proposals, designed solely to protect patients and improve hospital staffing.
Nurses cite unsafe staffing due to high turnover and management’s failure to recruit and retain staff.
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One year after a brutal attack on emergency department staff, nurses say the hospital is not doing enough to keep them safe.
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Healthcare workers cannot provide quality patient care when they are fearful for their own physical safety.
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Contract includes important patient safety provisions intended to remedy the hospital’s severe turnover and chronic understaffing.
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Nurses will join more than 9,000 others in Union’s ranks, including hundreds at sister Kindred Hospitals throughout Southern California.
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