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.
Australia
Headline: Coronavirus: WA volunteer nurse working in Victorian aged care facility tests positive to COVID-19
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Australia
https://redflag.org.au/node/7368
Headline: The disaster of Australia’s privatised aged care
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Australia
Headline: Nurses union demands better masks after Ipswich cluster
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Brazil
Manchete: Funcionários do Hospital da Mãe de Mesquita denunciam falta de insumos e de pagamento
Headline: Staff at the Hospital of Mãe de Mesquita denounce lack of supplies and payment
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Canada
Headline: Canada’s Union Members Are Mostly Women. It’s Time For Women to Lead Them
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Canada
Headline: Private Vancouver clinic loses constitutional challenge of public health-care rules
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Canada
https://windsorite.ca/2020/09/local-film-examines-the-trauma-windsor-essex-nurses-face/
Headline: Local Film Examines The Trauma Windsor Essex Nurses Face
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Canada
Headline: “No Room to Grieve” explores trauma in the nursing profession
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Canada
https://leaderpost.com/sponsored/news-sponsored/all-frontline-workers-deserving-of-recognition
Headline: All frontline workers deserving of recognition
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Canada
Headline: Nurses union head slams CancerCare consolidation of outpatient services
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Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/stars-lifeflight-air-ambulance-services-1.5719877
Headline: STARS to take over air ambulance services in Manitoba
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Canada
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1732228/pandemie-deuxieme-vague-coronavirus-soins-reseau
Titre: Il faut agir vite pour faire face à la pénurie de professionnels en santé, clame la FIQ
Headline: We must act quickly to face the shortage of health professionals, claims the FIQ
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Canada
Titre: Hausses salariales allant jusqu’à 25 % pour certains cadres du CISSS-AT
Headline: Salary increases of up to 25% for certain CISSS-AT executives
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Canada
Titre: Personnel en santé: une vague de départs qui fait peur
Headline: Healthcare workers: a wave of scary departures
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Canada
Titre: Une nouvelle plateforme de dénonciation pour les infirmières
Headline: A new whistleblower platform for nurses
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Canada
Titre: La situation de la COVID-19 s’aggrave dans des résidences pour aînés de Chaudière-Appalaches
Headline: The COVID-19 situation worsens in retirement homes in Chaudière-Appalaches
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Dominican Republic
Titular: Video | Sinatrae exige investigación sobre deudas de hospitales
Headline: Video | Sinatrae demands investigation into hospital debts
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Dominican Republic
https://turepublica.com/noticias/sindicatos-de-enfermeras-piden-al-sns-revisar-deuda/
Titular: Sindicato de enfermeras piden al SNS revisar deuda
Headline: Nurses union ask the SNS to review debt
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Dominican Republic
Titular: Piden al SNS mandar a investigar supuesta deuda de 4,000 millones que tienen los hospitales públicos
Headline: SNS asked to investigate alleged public hospital debt of 4,000 million
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Honduras
https://tiempo.hn/aneeah-80-disminuyo-contagios-de-covid-19-en-enfermeras/
Titular: ANEEAH: En 80 % disminuyeron los contagios de COVID-19 en gremio de enfermeras
Headline: ANEEAH: COVID-19 infections within nurses’ union decreased by 80%
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Honduras
https://tiempo.hn/covid-19-sinager-confirma-404-nuevos-casos-y-11-muertos-en-honduras/
Titular: COVID-19: Sinager confirma 404 nuevos casos y 11 muertos en Honduras
Headline: COVID-19: Sinager confirms 404 new cases and 11 deaths in Honduras
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Ireland
Headline: Nurses, doctors clash with Government over staffing and contracts
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Ireland
Headline: More than 120 healthcare workers diagnosed with Covid-19 in past week
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Ireland
Headline: Self-isolation period for people with Covid-19 may be cut to 10 days
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Ireland
https://www.thejournal.ie/hse-coronavirus-second-wave-hospitals-beaumont-5197007-Sep2020/
Headline: INMO: ‘Extremely worrying’ to see Covid-19 outbreaks in hospitals
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Ireland
Headline: Cork nurses fear ‘perfect storm’
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Israel
Headline: Hospitals ‘on verge of collapse’: Israeli Physicians Association recommends full lockdown on red cities
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Italy
https://www.obiettivonews.it/2020/09/07/piemonte-nursinda-assunzioni-infermieri-ancora-inadeguate/
Titolo: PIEMONTE – Nursind: “Assunzioni infermieri ancora inadeguate”
Headline: PIEDMONT – Nursind: “Nurse hiring still inadequate”
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Italy
Titolo: Covid, Nursind alla California nurses association: ora riconoscimento valore infermieri
Headline: Covid, Nursind at California nurses association: now nurses value recognition
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Italy
Titolo: NurSind Napoli denuncia: al presidio di Capri gli infermieri perdono l’indennità di turno
Headline: NurSind Napoli reports: nurses lose their shift allowance in Capri
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Italy
Titolo: Nursind: “Donazioni centro trasfusionale sospese per dirottare infermieri sull’emergenza Covid”
Headline: Nursind: “Transfusion center donations suspended to hijack nurses due to the Covid emergency”
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Italy
Titolo: Nursind: “L’emergenza Covid mette a rischio la ristrutturazione dell’ospedale di Ivrea”
Headline: Nursind: “The Covid emergency puts the restructuring of the Ivrea hospital at risk”
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Kenya
Headline: Nurses call off planned strike to allow more time for negotiations
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Kenya
https://nation.africa/kenya/counties/narok/narok-health-workers-issue-strike-notice-1936468
Headline: Narok health workers issue strike notice
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Kenya
Headline: Embu health workers boycott work to demand pay
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New Zealand
Headline: Christchurch Hospital to get $14m carpark after reports of nurses being attacked while walking to cars
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New Zealand
Headline: NZNO calls for audit of Middlemore Hospital’s voucher and app scheme
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Paraguay
Titular: Enfermeros en la pandemia, los imprescindibles reclaman apoyo
Headline: Nurses in the pandemic, the indispensable call for support
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Philippines
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/filipino-nurses-group-urge-duterte-035245097.html
Headline: Filipino nurses group urge Duterte gov’t to lift deployment ban
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Philippines
https://thediplomat.com/2020/09/filipino-health-workers-protest-overseas-work-restrictions/
Headline: Filipino Health Workers Protest Overseas Work Restrictions
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Philippines
https://rappler.com/nation/filipino-nurses-bound-for-uk-barred-leaving-philippines
Headline: 7 Filipino nurses bound for the UK barred from leaving the Philippines
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Philippines
https://mb.com.ph/2020/09/10/fnu-calls-for-lifting-of-deployment-ban-of-nurses/
Headline: FNU calls for lifting of deployment ban of nurses
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Philippines
Headline: Group calls for wage increase for nurses in private sector
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Philippines
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2020/09/11/2041596/health-worker-deployment-ban-may-be-eased
Headline: Health worker deployment ban may be eased
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Philippines
http://tempo.com.ph/2020/09/11/discombobulated-logic/
Headline: Discombobulated logic
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Philippines
Headline: Nurses’ group airs frustration over ‘downgrading’ of nurses’ ranks
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Portugal
https://www.dnoticias.pt/2020/9/7/72804-enfermeiros-dos-acores-anunciam-duas-greves
Manchete: Enfermeiros dos Açores anunciam duas greves
Headline: Azores nurses announce two strikes
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Portugal
Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros entrega abaixo-assinado na ULSBA contra discriminação dos dias de férias
Headline: Union of Nurses delivers petition to ULSBA against discrimination on vacation days
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Portugal
Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros diz que Hospital de Évora de “recusa reunir com o SEP”
Headline: Union of Nurses says that Évora Hospital “refuses to meet with SEP”
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Portugal
Manchete: “Não sou herói. Sou enfermeiro”. Sindicato quer profissionais a enviar emails para o Governo e partidos
Headline: “I am not a hero. I’m a nurse”. Union wants professionals to send emails to the Government and parties
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South Africa
Headline: Health department wants to move hospital from beachfront due to ‘salt air’
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South Africa
https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-09-06-ss-gida-covid-death-in-the-spotlight/
Headline: SS Gida Covid death in the spotlight
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Spain
Titular: SATSE denuncia ante la Inspección de Trabajo el cambio de los turnos del personal de Urgencias del Hospital de Utrera
Headline: SATSE decries to the Labor Inspectorate the change in shifts of the emergency personnel at Hospital de Utrera
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Spain
Titular: El sindicato de enfermería Satse lamenta el “silencio prolongado” de Sanidad para convocar una mesa sectorial y plantea movilizaciones
Headline: Satse nursing union regrets the “prolonged silence” of Health Ministry to convene a sectoral table and raises possibility of actions
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Spain
Titular: SATSE denuncia el retraso en la regulación de la prescripción enfermera en Castilla y León
Headline: SATSE denounces the delay in the regulation of nursing prescriptions in Castilla y León
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Spain
Titular: Satse denuncia que Asturias sigue sin acreditar a las enfermeras para prescribir y usar medicamentos
Headline: Satse denounces that Asturias still does not accredit nurses to prescribe and use medicines
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Spain
Titular: Satse denuncia que Murcia sigue sin acreditar a las enfermeras para prescribir y usar medicamentos
Headline: Satse denounces that Murcia still does not accredit nurses to prescribe and use medicines
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United Kingdom
Headline: Nurses are on the coronavirus frontline, so why are they being left out of the response?
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United Kingdom
https://www.mylondon.news/news/health/londons-student-nurses-5000-cash-18914894
Headline: London’s student nurses to get £5,000 cash grant – but fears it isn’t enough
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United Kingdom
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nhs-social-care-staff-face-22655184
Headline: NHS and social care staff face mental health crisis in wake of Covid-19’s first wave
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United Kingdom
Headline: Analysis: Nursing and the quest for equality in NHS leadership
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United Kingdom
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/18705735.800-nursing-jobs-across-hampshire-unfilled/
Headline: More than 800 nursing jobs across Hampshire unfilled
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United States
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/lost-year-coronavirus-florida-nurse
Headline: At 63, Marissa is missing her daughter’s wedding dress fitting as she fights for her fellow nurses
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United States
https://www.wbrc.com/2020/09/07/protest-outside-tuscaloosa-va-medical-center/
Headline: Protest outside Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center
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United States
Headline: In Legislative Shuffle, California Prioritizes Safety Gear and Sick Leave During Crisis
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United States
Headline: Trump Is a Health Hazard: The Choice Is Clear on Labor and Workers’ Rights in November
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United States
https://www.inforum.com/bismarck/6640895-Bismarck-nurses-union-lands-historic-labor-contract
Headline: Bismarck nurses union lands ‘historic’ labor contract
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United States
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/07/coronavirus-workers-compensation-claims-labor/
Headline: COVID-19 workers’ comp claims are being held up or denied
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United States
Headline: N95 masks rationed in Minn., six months into pandemic
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United States
Headline: Tuscaloosa VA nurses forced to return to work after COVID-19 exposure, ralliers claim
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United States
Headline: Some Hospitals Fail To Separate COVID-19 Patients, Putting Others At Risk
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United States
Headline: Nurses Union Warns Public About Hazards of a Trump Rush to Distribute Vaccine Before Election
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United States
https://abc3340.com/news/coronavirus/tuscaloosa-va-nurses-hold-covid-19-rally
Headline: Tuscaloosa VA nurses hold COVID-19 rally
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United States
Headline: Forty environmental groups demand Trump protect oil rig workers against coronavirus
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United States
Headline: Activists, nurses union demand $157 million cut from Cook County sheriff’s office budget next year: ‘Black life is a priority’
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United States
https://mountainx.com/opinion/letter-a-new-prescription-health-care-for-all/
Headline: Letter: A new prescription: health care for all!
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United States
Headline: Medicare for All supporters parade through Redlands
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United States
Headline: In a pandemic, unions matter: In a national crisis, organized labor helps expand safety net for all workers
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United States
Headline: ND Nurses Ratify Historic Contract
