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NYSUT HISTORY. "Healthy
gains: giving voice to nurses and other professionals." From the NYSUT
history guide. 1998.
AFT PUBLICATIONS
Mandatory Overtime
AFT Healthcare has developed three publications for use in understanding and combating
the problem of mandatory overtime.
- Survey
Results: March 2001 (554kb)
- State Legislation
(66kb)
- Industry
Comparison (1,970kb)
Nursing Shortage and Retention Survey
The nationwide survey, released April 19 by AFT Healthcare, found that one in
five nurses plans to leave the profession within the next five years because of
poor working conditions.
- Nursing
Shortage and Retention Survey (73kb)
Being Ready
How can health care professionals prepare for management's anti-union campaign?
Being prepared for the employer's campaign allows workers to focus on their real
goal - the ability to speak with a united voice for quality care and a work environment
that respects professionalism and expertise.
- Being
Ready (1896k)
Our Right to Organize
This colorful, 20-page pamphlet presents the basics of collective bargaining and
provides answers to some of the fundamental, important questions prospective and
new union members have about organizing and union contracts.
- Our Right
to Organize (394k)
Navigating the New Health Care Environment
A compendium of contract language addressing mergers, restructuring, downsizing,
staffing cuts and the other challenges health care unions are facing today.
- Printable:
Adobe Acrobat (394k)
- Editable: Microsoft
Word (5615k)
The State of the Health Care Workforce 2001 [order]
AFT Healthcare's indispensable almanac that collects in one place publicly available
data on health care workers and the industry in which they work. The book contains
startling figures: real wages for RNs have dropped from $817 in 1993 to $790 in
2000 despite the nursing shortage; an additional 450,000 more nurses will be needed
by the year 2008; and enrollment in nursing schools has declined steadily in every
region of the country, falling 2.1 percent in 2000 alone. You may order
a copy online.
1999 State Staffing Legislation
1999 State Staffing Legislation is a compendium of some of the better staffing
legislation and public disclosure bills that were introduced in state legislatures
in 1999.
- State
Staffing Legislation (159k)
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