ANA CEO takes part in interview series on health system reform and prospects for change with the next President.
October 3, 2008 Linda J. Stierle, MSN, RN, CNAA,BC, Chief Executive Officer of the American Nurses Association took part in the health08.org Kaiser Family Foundation interview series Viewpoints: The Health Care Debate with various leaders of organizations representing health care providers, insurers, policymakers, employers, labor unions and...

Blue Wolf Capital Launches Healthcare Laundry Systems.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-2 December 2008-Blue Wolf Capital Launches Healthcare Laundry Systems(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Blue Wolf Capital Management (Blue Wolf), a New York-based private equity firm, announced the establishment by Blue Wolf Capital Fund II of Healthcare Laundry Systems (HLS), a company that provides laundry...

For thirty-five years, Gallup has been asking about confidence in the country's major institutions.
For thirty-five years, Gallup has been asking about confidence in the country's major institutions. The current polling results have the military coming out on top, with 71 percent saying they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in it. That's followed by "small business" (60 percent),...

Favrille and MyMedicalRecords.com, Inc. Obtain Shareholder Approval to Move Forward With Merger.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Favrille, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: FVRL) and MyMedicalRecords.com, Inc. ("MMR"), a health information company focused on secure Web-based storage of electronic Personal Health Records (PHRs), announced today that two significant conditions required for the closing of their definitive merger agreement have been met. ...

Labor unions poised for a resurgence with change in tactics.
Byline: Andy Lewis For blue chip Since private sector union membership peaked at roughly 35 percent in 1953, the number of American workers affiliated with labor unions has hit an all-time low, dropping to just 7.4 percent in 2006. But for those who assume that downward trend...

Unions, timber industry split on secretary of state.
Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard Labor unions like Democrat Kate Brown for secretary of state. The timber industry prefers Republican Rick Dancer. With less than two weeks remaining before the election, Brown, a lawyer and veteran politician who has served in the Legislature for 16...

ExpressJet and Unions Report Tentative Accord.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-15 October 2008-ExpressJet and Unions Report Tentative Accord(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com ExpressJet Holdings announced that it reached tentative agreements with all four of its labor unions representing the pilots and instructors, mechanics, flight attendants, and dispatchers. Voting is scheduled to be...

ExpressJet Announces Execution of All Labor Agreements.
HOUSTON, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ExpressJet announced today that it received final approval from all of the national offices for its labor unions to execute the new agreements recently ratified by their respective members. Each of these agreements will be retroactive to November 1 and allow ExpressJet to begin...

Binational guestworker unions: moving guestworkers into the house of labor.
INTRODUCTION In the mid-1990s, Francisco Hernandez Juarez, head of the Mexican telephone workers' union, proposed the establishment of "an International Union for Migrant Workers." (1) This idea never came to fruition, but the recent success of three unions in organizing groups of agricultural guestworkers (2) again raises...

Old is new again.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The great exodus of American Manufacturers to foreign soil began in earnest back in the 1970's when labor prices began eating into profits and gun companies had to either close the doors or go off shore. Off shore was the answer and our gun-world changed...