UNA Action
What is AFSCME/UNA?
The United Nurses of America-AFSCME is more than 60,000 nurses working in unity to advance quality and accountability in the healthcare setting through organizing, political action and nursing practice. Across the country, we are reaching out to other nurses who want to join UNA-AFSCME. As our numbers grow, so does our power to improve our jobs, the care we deliver and the quality of our lives.
The United Nurses of America-AFSCME is more than 60,000 nurses working in unity to advance quality and accountability in the healthcare setting through organizing, political action and nursing practice. Across the country, we are reaching out to other nurses who want to join UNA-AFSCME. As our numbers grow, so does our power to improve our jobs, the care we deliver and the quality of our lives.
UNA-AFSCME
- ON THE JOB — UNA-AFSCME nurses are winning wage, benefits and other improvements, such as prohibitions on mandatory overtime, through strong collective bargaining agreements with our employers.
- IN THE COMMUNITY — UNA-AFSCME nurses work in coalitions and partnerships at the community level to generate public and grassroots support for our goals and the agenda of nurses.
- IN CONGRESS AND LEGISLATURES — UNA-AFSCME nurses lobby lawmakers and political officials to enact legislation and policies to increase health care funding, improve quality care and institute safer working conditions and protections for nurses.
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2010, Issue No. 1
The Raging Controversy: Should Flu Vaccination be Mandatory for Health Care Workers?; Sen. Edward Kennedy; AFSCME Nurses Make House Calls for Health Care; California Moves to Protect Health Care Workers from Airborne Diseases; [...] -
2009, Issue No. 1
AFSCME: A Key Stakeholder in National Health Care Reform; Health Care Funds in Economic Recovery Act; Federal Funds Available to Reduce Health Care Associated Infections; and Expanded Health Coverage for Children Becomes Law -
Winter 2008
Nurses Working Outside Nursing; No Payments for Preventable Errors; Suzanne Gordon is ‘Calling All Nurses’; Pandemic Flu Survey: How Prepared Are We?; Legislative Updates; and 1199J/AFSCME Hospital Nurses Win More than Magnet Status; -
Summer 2008
Health Workers Shortage; Feds to Expand Patient Safety Initiatives; The Latest Nurse Staffing Data; Boomers Face Inadequate Geriatric Health Care System; Respirator Fit Testing Rule Reversed; and On-Line Network for Health Care Employees is Launched -
Winter 2007-08
CMS: No Payments to Hospitals for Medical Errors; Large Investment Firms Conceal Nursing Home Quality Issues; Training Sessions on Safe Patient Handling Work; Report Identifies Keys to Nursing Shortage; and MRSA Infections Highlight ‘Super Bugs’ Problems -
Spring 2007
Nurse Unions Ask for Changes in Magnet Program; Nurse Advisory Committee Welcomes New Members; Labor Board Decision Blocks Nurse Union; Can Aviation Lessons Apply to Hospitals?; and California Nurses Association to Join the AFL-CIO -
Winter 2006
NLRB Calls Charge Nurses Supervisors; Sonia Moseley Retires; UNA’s Wellness Booth a Huge Success; AFSCME Commissions Study on the Value of LPNs; RNs Working Together Welcomes New Director; and Improving Systems for Medical Error Reporting
