Australia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-26/nurses-call-for-flu-clinic-to-open-in-tasmania/11047188
Headline: Nurses call for flu clinic to open in Tasmania to take pressure off the Royal Hobart Hospital
Headline: A whole new world: how WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia
https://www.examiner.com.au/story/6089915/greens-eye-lgh-upgrades-under-new-national-health-policy/
Headline: Australian Greens raise possibility of Launceston General Hospital funding
Headline: Childcare workers just the start
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/pm/how-to-boost-wages-for-female-dominated-industries/11056152
Headline: How to boost wages for female-dominated industries
Headline: Sixty groups fighting to overturn NSW’s archaic abortion laws
Headline: IN THIS TOWN, LOCALS SAY MENTAL HEALTH CARE IS ‘BETTER IN PRISON’ THAN IN HOSPITAL
https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/6091766/may-day-aged-care-resident-ratios/
Headline: Aged care resident ratios
https://www.centraltelegraph.com.au/news/mums-push-for-more-at-theodore-hospital/3705822/
Headline: Mums push for more at Theodore Hospital
Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/5143360/quebec-nurses-rally-across-province-to-end-forced-overtime/
Headline: Quebec nurses rally across province to end forced overtime
Titre: Les compressions en science infirmiere: un <<pas en arriere>> pour le syndicat
Headline: Nursing cuts: a “step backward” for the union
Titre: Heures supplémentaires obligatoires : la FIQ conteste la décision du Tribunal du travail
Headline: Mandatory overtime: FIQ challenges the decision of the Labor Court
Titre: Des médecins mettent en garde contre la menace climatique sur la santé
Headline: Doctors warn of climate threat to health
Titre: Climat, santé et Hydro-Québec
Headline: Climate, health and Hydro-Québec
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1166057/superinfirmieres-medecin-surveillance
Titre: Pour en finir avec la surveillance des « superinfirmières » par les médecins
Headline: End the supervision of “super nurses” by doctors
http://www.rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/radiolabour/2019/04/many-more-lobbyists-hired-stop-pharmacare
Headline: Many more lobbyists hired to stop pharmacare
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/04/30/protest-ontario-healthcare-legislation/
Headline: Thousands descend on Queen’s Park to protest Ontario healthcare changes
Headline: Striking public health nurses return to bargaining table next week
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/wechu-ona-meeting-windsor-1.5122025
Headline: Nurses on strike set to meet with health unit
Headline: Striking nurses warn of infectious diseases, other community health risks
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unprecedented-health-action-day-calls-191325758.html
Headline: Unprecedented Health Action Day Calls on Doug Ford to Halt Health Privatization Plans
Headline: Jarvis: Where is the sense of urgency in ending strike by public health nurses?
https://www.northernnews.ca/news/local-news/health-mergers-bad-news-for-the-north-critics-2
Headline: Health mergers bad news for the North: critics
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ahs-una-paid-leave-organ-donor-domestic-violence-1.5115076
Headline: Nurses union and AHS face off over competing leave priorities
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/nurses-rally-care-not-cuts-manitoba-legislature-1.5118736
Headline: Nurses chant for care, not cuts, as Manitoba forges ahead with health-care overhaul
Headline: Manitoba examining health care plan to ensure changes are viable
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nursing-program-cuts-union-1.5098038
Headline: Nurses union shocked by funding cuts to university nursing programs
https://globalnews.ca/news/5170246/nursing-program-cuts-nb/
Headline: New Brunswick nursing program cuts a ‘bit premature’: union president
Headline: Son at a loss for answers after Caraquet senior with stage 4 bedsore dies
Headline: Nurses union offers temporary solution to overtime dispute with health authority
https://globalnews.ca/news/5201991/nova-scotia-nurses-overtime-pay/
Headline: Nova Scotia Health Authority backpedals on changes to overtime pay — for now
https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/local/nurses-call-foul-on-overtime-pay-issue-302239/
Headline: Nurses call foul on overtime pay issue
Headline: Here are some things you can do to reduce health-care provider burnout
Headline: NDP calling for more hires in hospitals, long-term care homes
Dominican Republic
Titular: SNS anuncia fortalecerá 20 hospitales y 29 policlínicas que pertenecían al IDSS
Headline: SNS announces the strengthening of 20 hospitals and 29 polyclinics that belonged to the IDSS
Ireland
https://www.thejournal.ie/nurses-strike-11-4617128-May2019/
Headline: Nurses and midwives vote to accept deal to end industrial dispute
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2019/0502/1047081-inmo-labour-ballot/
Headline: INMO members accept proposals to resolve dispute over pay and staff shortages
http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=26635
Headline: Trolley figures exceeded 10,000 last month
http://www.clare.fm/news/health/record-levels-overcrowding-university-hospital-limerick/
Headline: Record Levels Of Overcrowding At University Hospital Limerick
Headline: Nurses’ ballot paves way for €100 weekly boost in pay, allowances
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/nurses-are-underdog-of-healthcare-inmo-president-1.3871906
Headline: Nurses are ‘underdog of healthcare’ – INMO president
Headline: Some elective procedures postponed due to overcrowding at Portiuncula Hospital Ballinasloe
Headline: Over 1,300 lost bed nights in Kilkenny hospital adds to pressure
Kenya
Headline: Government backtracks on pay increase plan
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019-05-01-no-increase-in-minimum-wage-this-labour-day/
Headline: No increase in minimum wage this Labour Day
New Zealand
Headline: Sixty per cent of Waikato DHB staffers have seen bullying at work: survey
Headline: Experts say mental health patients not to blame for a rise in violence in hospitals
https://www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MjE1NDY=/Greater-support-for-midwives-welcomed
Headline: NEWS CLIP | Kerri Nuku – greater support for midwives welcomed
Portugal
Manchete: Sindicato de Enfermeiros acusa PSD e CDS de “preferirem professores” a outros profissionais
Headline: Nurses Union accuses PSD and CDS of “preferring teachers” to other professionals
Manchete: Administração do Garcia de Orta compromete-se com contratação direta de 3 pediatras
Headline: Garcia de Orta’s administration commits itself to hiring 3 pediatricians
Manchete: PCP questiona governo sobre problemas no Hospital de Lagos
Headline: PCP questions government over problems at Lagos Hospital
South Africa
Headline: Denosa Warns Easter Traffic Accidents Could Put Strain On Rural Health Services
Headline: Limpopo trains nurses, but ‘too broke’ to employ them
Spain
Titular: Cermi respalda la Ley que garantizará la seguridad en la atención sanitaria a los pacientes
Headline: Cermi supports law that will guarantee health care security of patients
Titular: Satse afirma que el Plan de Primaria es un “gesto político” propiciado por las elecciones
Headline: Satse says that the Primary Plan is a “political gesture” to win favor in the elections
Titular: Satse denuncia que los profesionales de Enfermería “siguen siendo los más agredidos” en la sanidad gallega
Headline: Satse decries that nurses “are still the most attacked” in Galician healthcare
Titular: Enfermería teme que la falta de personal aumente en verano
Headline: Nurses fear a lack of increased staff in summer
Titular: Dos de cada cinco enfermeros del área viguesa: temporales y sin permisos
Headline: Two out of every five nurses in the Vigo area: temporary and without a license
Titular: 1.000 reclamaciones en una semana: “Las enfermeras estamos asfixiadas”
Headline: 1,000 demands in a week: “Nurses are suffocating”
Titular: SATSE reclama en el Juzgado la apertura de la bolsa de Enfermería y Fisioterapia del INGESA
Headline: SATSE demands court opens the INGESA Nursing and Physiotherapy Exchange
Titular: El SATSE denuncia la “opacidad” del plan para reducir las listas de espera
Headline: SATSE denounces the “opaqueness” of the plan to reduce waiting lists
Titular: Osakidetza y la mayoría sindical acuerdan mejoras laborales para los trabajadores de emergencias
Headline: Osakidetza and union majority agree on labor improvements for emergency workers
Titular: Denuncian falta de enfermeras en los quirófanos de Juaneda
Headline: Lack of nurses in Juaneda operating rooms denounced
Titular: Satse pide más enfermeras y fisioterapeutas y reducir la ratio de pacientes
Headline: Satse demands more nurses and physiotherapists and a reduction in patient ratios
United Kingdom
Headline: Scotland passes landmark law on safe staffing for NHS and social care
Headline: Health secretary urged to address gender pay gap in nursing
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/28175
Headline: RCN chief tells Select Committee nurse staffing crisis in England requires legislation
Headline: Learning disability course cuts will have ‘devastating effect’ on patient care, warns RCN
https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/28/300-nhs-nurses-take-lives-just-seven-years-9331225/
Headline: More than 300 NHS nurses take their own lives in just seven years
Headline: RCN Scotland to push for district charge nurses not to carry a caseload
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-workers-attacked-63-times-14435015
Headline: NHS workers are attacked 63 times very day, shocking new figures show
https://politicos-pulse-check.simplecast.com/episodes/why-150-000-nurses-are-fighting-for-med
Headline: Why 150,000 nurses are fighting for “Medicare for All”
Headline: Demanding Medicare for All, Nurses Use Band-Aids to Plaster GoFundMe Pages to Big Pharma Headquarters
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/nurses-roll-out-congressional-blitz-to-win-medicare-for-all/
Headline: Nurses roll out Congressional blitz to win Medicare For All
Headline: Largest U.S. Nurses’ Union Rallies Outside of PhRMA Headquarters in Support of Medicare for All
Headline: ‘Medicare for All’ poised for its moment
https://www.abc-7.com/story/40389921/medicare-for-all-will-get-its-first-formal-hearing
Headline: Dying man to Congress: GoFundMe is not a health care plan
Headline: Ady Barkan makes a moral case for single payer at first-ever Medicare for All hearing
Headline: Newsom goes national with universal health care ads and not everyone is thrilled
Headline: ‘It happens every day’: SC hospital shootings highlight violence against health care workers
https://www.theledger.com/news/20190417/growing-medicare-for-all-fears-drive-health-stocks-to-tumble
Headline: Growing ‘Medicare for all’ fears drive health stocks to tumble
https://californiahealthline.org/news/a-big-hearing-for-medicare-for-all-in-a-small-room/
Headline: A Big Hearing For ‘Medicare-For-All’ — In A Small Room
https://www.thenation.com/article/ocasio-cortez-va-health-care-privatization/
Headline: In the Bronx, AOC Advocates for a ‘VA for All’
Titular: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez se suma a la lucha por la salud de los veteranos
Headline: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins the fight for the health of veterans
Headline: Nurses spend Easter weekend helping migrants at Benedictine Monastery
Headline: VA privatization latest battleground for congressional rising stars
Headline: GOP lawmaker’s idiotic remark about nurses goes viral and backfires
https://chicagocrusader.com/may-day-march-rally-and-action/
Headline: May Day March, Rally and Action
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2019/apr/25/violence-in-the-workplace-need-not-be-tolerated/
Headline: Violence in the workplace need not be tolerated
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_aea4332a-685b-11e9-a36f-6b551ef3717c.html
Headline: Baton Rouge nurse’s death prompts medical workers nationwide to demand workplace safety
http://bronx.news12.com/story/40326626/rep-ocasiocortez-speaks-at-veteran-care-town-hall
Headline: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez speaks at veteran care town hall
Headline: ‘Historic Step’ Toward Healthcare Justice as First-Ever Medicare for All Hearing Set for Next Week
https://hpherald.com/2019/05/01/u-of-c-labor-organizations-demand-recognition-at-may-day-rally/
Headline: U. of C. labor organizations demand recognition at May Day rally
Headline: Henry Mayo officials, nurses agree on new contract to avoid strike
https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/nursing/patient-faces-arrest-attack-killed-louisiana-nurse
Headline: PATIENT FACES ARREST FOR ATTACK THAT KILLED LOUISIANA NURSE
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/strike-wave-teachers-nurses-labor-unions-kim-moody
Headline: We Just Remembered How to Strike
https://www.thenation.com/article/take-action-now-push-the-medicare-for-all-bill-forward/
Headline: Take Action Now: Push the Medicare-for-All Bill Forward
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/amazon-and-mcdonalds-top-dirty-dozen-list-of-dangerous-firms/
Headline: Amazon and McDonald’s top ‘Dirty Dozen’ list of dangerous firms
Headline: Rally Set For Affordable Housing In Proposed Arlington Heights Development
https://prospect.org/article/aoc-defends-american-socialist-success-veterans-health-care
Headline: AOC Defends an American Socialist Success: Veterans’ Health Care
Headline: Will patient limits help nurses but hurt hospitals?
https://thelensnola.org/2019/04/18/rep-richmond-should-co-sponsor-the-medicare-for-all-act/
Headline: Rep. Richmond should co-sponsor the Medicare for All Act
Headline: Garland protesters strive to elevate marginalized voices at sit-in
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/04/18/fox-never-expected-medicare-all-moment
Headline: Fox Never Expected This—The Medicare for All Moment
Headline: “Sit-in for survivors” rallies against USC’s actions during ongoing scandal
Headline: Potential Strike Averted After Nurses Reach Tentative Deal With Henry Mayo