Bid to Return to Era of Open Season on U.S. Workers from the National Nurses United

[Omaha Steve]

http://nhlabornews.com/2013/01/bid-to-return-to-era-of-open-season-on-u-s-workers-from-the-national-nurses-united/

By New Hampshire Labor News | January 26, 2013 | Press Release, Union

The nation’s largest organization of nurses today condemned a conservative federal appeals court ruling overturning President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, a step taken by the President only after the refusal of Senate Republicans to restore a quorum on the board to enable it to function.

“It is appalling that the court would reward the giant corporations and Wall Street, and the politicians they control in Washington, who have worked for years to overturn even modest protections for working people in the U.S.,” said RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of the 185,000-member National Nurses United.

“What that means in healthcare is a clear assault on the ability of nurses to act collectively to improve safety standards and public protections for patients,” said DeMoro. “If nurses are unable to speak out for patients and act together to safeguard conditions, all patients are threatened in an era in which most hospital employers place their bottom line above patient safety.”

“When the board is not controlled by corporate-oriented appointees, as it has been most of the past four decades, the game plan of the anti-union crowd is to bar it from operating, either by refusing to confirm appointees, defunding or other destabilization tactics,” DeMoro noted.

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