Below is a collection of links to news stories, provided by Global Nurses United, about nurses in other nations and how they are advocating for their patients.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/300-nurses-midwives-strike-nsw-064403314.html
Headline: Some 300 nurses and midwives strike in NSW
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Headline: Why the Australian government has so far failed to support a patent waiver for vaccine equity
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Headline: Bed, staff shortages at Adelaide’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital put babies’ lives at risk, union warns
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Headline: Fears for safety of mothers, babies amid maternity ward staff shortage
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Headline: Tasmania’s nursing union calls for greater work flexibility so aging workforce is retained for longer
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https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/06/11/vaccination-leave-australia/
Headline: Unions call for paid ‘vaccination leave’ to encourage uptake of COVID jabs
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Headline: Campbelltown Hospital nurses strike to fight for more staff
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Headline: Sydney nurses walk off job in escalating pay dispute with state government
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Headline: Hospital beds close in Yass over safe staffing concerns
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Headline: NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association Port Macquarie Base Hospital Branch members take two-hour stop work action
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Manchete: Profissionais que aplicam vacina contra Covid em Teresina podem paralisar, após FMS “adequar” carga horária e salários
Headline: Professionals who apply Covid vaccine in Teresina may go on strike, after FMS “adjust” workload and salaries
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-nurses-union-strike-vote-1.6060793
Headline: Manitoba nurses vote overwhelmingly in favour of a strike
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https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/nancy-bedard-re-elected-fiq-union-president
Headline: Nancy Bédard re-elected FIQ union president
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https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1800572/lock-out-hopitaux-syndicat-infirmieres-vote-contrat
Titre: Une majorité écrasante des infirmières et infirmiers en faveur d’une grève
Headline: Overwhelming majority of nurses in favor of strike action
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Headline: Sharp nursing shortage hits St. John’s long-term care centre
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-covid-masks-protection-1.6053953
Headline: The campaign to get better masks for front-line workers is now underway
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https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/06/08/canicule-les-chsld-accables
Titre: Canicule: les CHSLD accablés
Headline: Heatwave: CHSLDs overwhelmed
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https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1800549/infirmieres-auxiliaires-inhalotherapeutes
Titre: Démissions aux soins intensifs : le CIUSSS fait appel aux autres régions
Headline: Resignations from intensive care: the CIUSSS calls on other regions
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https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1798920/rattrapage-chirurgies-septembre-vacances-repos-cancer
Titre: Pas de rattrapage des chirurgies avant septembre au Québec
Headline: No catching up of surgeries before September in Quebec
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/foothills-delta-variant-outbreak-calgary-covid-1.6057671
Headline: 2 units at Calgary’s Foothills hospital have delta variant COVID-19 outbreaks
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Headline: Nurses union slams health minister for blaming emergency room woes on staff vacations
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Headline: Staff shortages causing rural hospital beds to close, not vacations: UNA
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-manitoba-doctors-nurses-pallister-1.6055604
Headline: Winnipeg doctors pen letter to government in support of nurses as morale, staffing at all-time low
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https://winnipeg.citynews.ca/video/2021/06/10/manitoba-nurses-union-vote-to-strike/
Headline: Manitoba Nurses Union vote to strike
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Titular: El Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Enfermería anunció paro por 48 horas
Headline: The National Union of Nursing Workers announced a 48-hour strike
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https://pasonop.gr/new/2020/06/10/
Επικεφαλίδα: Επιτακτική ανάγκη η δημιουργία Επαγγελματικού Κλάδου Νοσηλευτικού Προσωπικού
Headline: The creation of a Professional Nursing Staff is imperative
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Titular: Bajan las muertes por covid-19 en el personal de salud en Honduras
Headline: Deaths from covid-19 decrease in health personnel in Honduras
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Titular: Existe capacidad para inocular 50 mil personas diarias en el país, pero no hay vacunas
Headline: There is a capacity to inoculate 50 thousand people a day in the country, but there are no vaccines
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Headline: Revenge porn, sextortion and intimate terrorism: the past year has unleashed a war on women
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Headline: 31 people waiting on a bed at St Luke’s General Hospital for Carlow and Kilkenny today
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Titolo: Spezia, negli ospedali mancano gli infermieri
Headline: Spezia, there is a shortage of nurses in hospitals
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Titolo: REMS: aggressioni e mancata sorveglianza. Il NurSind Mantova presenta esposto in procura
Headline: REMS: assaults and lack of surveillance. The NurSind Mantova presents a way to prosecute
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Titolo: Stravolti i turni e le ferie degli infermieri. Nursind: “Chiediamo rispetto”
Headline: Disrupted shifts and holidays of nurses. Nursind: “We ask for respect”
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Titolo: Perugia. Letti aggiunti nei corridoi e file al pronto soccorso. NurSind sul piede di guerra
Headline: Perugia. Extra beds in the corridors and files in the emergency room. NurSind on a war footing
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Headline: 296 medics contracted Covid in Mombasa since last year
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Headline: Nurses’ union says members are ‘exhausted’ and many are considering leaving NZ to work elsewhere
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https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thousands-nurses-go-strike-new-zealand-2021-06-09/
Headline: Thousands of nurses go on strike in New Zealand
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Headline: The best signs from New Zealand nurses’ strike
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/300326457/nurses-to-strike-for-better-pay-working-conditions
Headline: Nurses to strike for better pay, working conditions
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https://times-age.co.nz/underpaid-and-understaffed/
Headline: ‘Underpaid and understaffed’
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https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/frontpage-featured/20210610/offer-insulting/
Headline: OFFER ‘INSULTING’
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Headline: Auckland City Hospital’s lowest-paid staff driving to work early, sleeping in cars due to lack of parking spaces
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https://www.lanacion.com.py/pais/2021/06/07/suman-65-los-enfermeros-fallecidos-a-causa-del-covid-19/
Titular: Suman 65 los enfermeros fallecidos a causa del COVID-19
Headline: Total of 65 nurses have died from COVID-19
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Headline: Gov’t urged to provide nurses higher salary, more benefits amid pandemic
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https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/11/21/health-care-workers-benefits-covid19-pandemic
Headline: Health workers seek release of benefits as COVID-19 pandemic rages on
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Headline: Filipino nurses to reclaim former positions before demotion –nurses’ group
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https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1443006/fight-not-over-as-nurses-claim-p43m-in-back-pay
Headline: Fight not over as nurses claim P43 million in back pay
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https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/08/21/backpay-nurses-dbm-pay-increase-demotion
Headline: Palace says funds may be short for government nurses’ backpay
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Headline: Nurse group seeks backpay dating from January 2020 after Medialdea memo
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https://manilastandard.net/news/national/356889/nurses-plead-for-retroactive-pay-hike-anew.html
Headline: Nurses plead for retroactive pay hike anew
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https://mb.com.ph/2021/06/08/health-workers-hail-nurses-win-vs-demotion/
Headline: Health workers hail nurses’ win vs ‘demotion’
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https://www.abrilabril.pt/trabalho/enfermeiros-protestam-frente-ars-norte
Manchete: Enfermeiros protestam frente à ARS Norte
Headline: Nurses protest in front of ARS North
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https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/ipo-de-lisboa-perdeu-meia-centena-de-profissionais-num-mes/74857
Manchete: IPO de Lisboa perdeu meia centena de profissionais num mês
Headline: Lisbon’s IPO lost fifty professionals in a month
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Headline: Police Seeks Answers After Missing, Pregnant Nurse Martha Mhlari Is Found Dead
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Titular: SATSE denuncia que “muchas enfermeras desconocen si renovarán los contratos Covid”
Headline: SATSE denounces that “many nurses do not know if they will renew Covid contracts”
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Titular: Ocho de cada diez enfermeros valencianos denuncian falta de personal durante la pandemia
Headline: Eight out of ten Valencian nurses report a lack of staff during the pandemic
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Titular: El sindicato Satse denuncia que la Xunta no cubrirá con nuevo personal las vacaciones de enfermeras en residencias
Headline: The Satse union denounces that the Xunta will not cover nursing vacations in residences with new personnel
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https://www.malagahoy.es/malaga/Satse-enfermeras-Malaga-plaza_0_1582043589.html
Titular: Satse critica que más de cien enfermeras hayan tenido que coger plaza fuera de Málaga
Headline: Satse criticizes that more than a hundred nurses have had to take a place outside of Malaga
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Titular: SATSE denuncia falta de seguridad en Urgencia Infantil de La Paz por falta de enfermeras
Headline: SATSE denounces lack of security in La Paz Children’s Emergency Room due to lack of nurses
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Titular: SATSE calcula que las enfermeras realizan hasta 1.500 horas extra al día
Headline: SATSE estimates that nurses work up to 1,500 overtime hours a day
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Headline: No response for health workers demands, privileges only for doctors
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https://nation.lk/online/health-trade-unions-resort-to-token-strike-91475.html
Headline: Health trade unions resort to token strike
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Headline: ‘Growing practice’ of non-nurses being recruited for registered nurse roles
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Headline: NHS trusts hiring non-nurses for nursing roles, union warns
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https://www.nursingtimes.net/opinion/urgent-action-is-needed-on-nurse-staffing-levels-10-06-2021/
Headline: ‘Urgent action is needed on nurse staffing levels’
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Headline: Nursing and midwifery leaders urge PM to reverse overseas aid cuts
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Headline: OSHA releases new standard to protect front-line health workers from COVID-19
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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/09/biden-limits-covid-rules-health-care-492634
Headline: Biden administration will limit mandatory Covid workplace safety rules to health care settings
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Headline: Can we trust that person is vaccinated?
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Headline: Michigan nurses receive $500 payments under back pay settlement
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Headline: As COVID-19 exacerbates violence in the workplace, one health system is using discreet wearables to protect staff
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Headline: Nurses Cheer OSHA Federal Workplace Emergency Temporary Standard
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Headline: OSHA releases COVID safety standard for healthcare employees only
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Headline: OSHA Covid-19 Rule for Health Care to Be Released Thursday
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Headline: Extend the eviction moratorium to ward off another public health crisis
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Headline: California regulators withdraw controversial work mask rules
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https://www.kcra.com/article/calosha-mask-rule-more-closely-aligned-california-guidelines/36680414
Headline: Cal/OSHA weighs mask rule more closely aligned with state guidelines
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Headline: Cal/OSHA will propose allowing vaccinated workers to stop wearing masks
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https://dcist.com/story/21/06/09/dc-and-maryland-hospitals-will-begin-requiring-staff-vaccination/
Headline: D.C. And Maryland Hospitals Will Begin Requiring Staff To Get Vaccinated
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Headline: Nurse Staffing Standards Bill Has Mixed Support
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https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/keystone-xl-pipeline-finally-dead-in-both-u-s-and-canada/
Headline: Keystone XL pipeline finally dead in both US and Canada
