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7 Feb 2025
RT @rweingarten: Excited to welcome 90 physicians at Legacy Health in Portland, OR to the @AFTUnion family. Together, we can fight to put #…
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AFT Healthcare retweeted
7 Feb 2025
Congratulations to the Registered Nurses at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, who voted “Union Yes” to form their union and join AFT Vermont!
#healthcareworkers #healthcare #1u #vermont @AFTunion @labornotes @AFTHealthcare #vtpoli
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If Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") agents enter the healthcare facility in which you work, here is what you need to know to protect yourself, your patients, and your license. wsna.org/news/2025/what-you-…
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UUP members joined community and faith leaders, patients, students and fellow colleagues last week at the first Downstate Community Advisory Board hearing at SUNY Downstate to urge the board to maintain inpatient services and invest in the hospital. #BrooklynNeedsDownstate
Read more: uupinfo.org/communications/u…
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Happening TOMORROW at 7 PM EST: Join @rweingarten, @AFTEVPDeJesus, @JessJTang, @StacyDavisGates, Gaby Pacheco, @RoweFinkbeiner, Dan McNeil, and Nicolas Espiritu for an urgent town hall on immigration.
Register here: webinars.on24.com/aft/immigr…
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28 Jan 2025
AFT is always seeking ways to address the moral injury and burnout facing our healthcare members. Thank you for your leadership @timkaine. As a recipient of one of these grants, we know the importance of this law.
kaine.senate.gov/press-relea…
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28 Jan 2025
RT @rweingarten: “This law will set a standard for all hospitals across our state and will ensure our ohana will receive quality care and e…
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AFT Healthcare retweeted
23 Jan 2025
Diseases and viruses know no borders. By being part of the WHO, the United States could get information about public health threat in other countries that could harm Americans — like Ebola outbreaks — and take action to make sure that we are prepared to respond.
21 Jan 2025
Trump signs executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization
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Nearly 10,000 people have signed our @MoveOn petition telling Providence Health to negotiate a fair contract with thousands of understaffed doctors and nurses in Oregon.
Add your name 👉 sign.moveon.org/petitions/te…
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.@AFTHealthcare members and families across the nation deserve better from Congress.
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23 Jan 2025
Today, Democrats blocked Republicans’ latest attack on women’s reproductive freedoms. They want to criminalize doctors and nurses who are using their best judgement during some of the most difficult moments in their patients’ lives.
This bill is offensive to health care providers, and cruel to women who face pregnancy complications.
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New from @rweingarten: "Slashing essential programs for Americans with the greatest needs to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires would be a monumental betrayal of the people who voted for Trump ..." Read her latest NYT column: aft.org/column/government-pe…
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21 Jan 2025
RT @rweingarten: We're part of this new lawsuit because DOGE must come out of the shadows & comply with the law before the sweeping, self-s…
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A broken system hurts every patient & every family.
In Oregon, physicians, RNs, & others are on strike to demand Providence address unsafe staffing levels in emergency rooms & unfair wages. Add your name & tell Providence to put #PatientsBeforeProfits.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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Tip! We encourage our members to take time before Monday 1/20 to save records of all past student loan payments and progress towards Public Service Loan Forgiveness, in the event of a dispute under the next administration. To learn more, visit StudentAid.gov.
Have you saved all of your student loan financial records?
Please share widely to spread the word!
ALT Blue graphic that reads "Log into your studentaid.gov dashboard NOW and take screenshots of your payment history & loan forgiveness progress."
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“As the only O.B. hospitalist on call on the floor...I cannot safely take care of another patient,” Dr. Megan Locher said. “You need to allow me to provide the continued quality care to the patients that I’m at the bedside with or we need another person.” koin.com/news/oregon/provide…
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AFT Healthcare retweeted
14 Jan 2025
I just signed a petition to support @OregonNurses who are on strike. Take action with @aftunion now — Providence Health to fix its broken healthcare system. Add your name here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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14 Jan 2025
RT @rweingarten: One day longer, one day stronger! @OregonNurses #ProvStrike2025 #PatientsBeforeProfits kgw.com/article/news/local/p…
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✊ Doctors
✊ Nurses
✊ Frontline Caregivers
On strike for fair contracts that prioritize patient safety & care! 💪
#ProvStrike2025 #PatientsBeforeProfits
@OregonNurses @DrJenLincoln
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