LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, March 17, 2025
Top Stories: Fired prison guards fight for reinstatement; VTA strike continues; Nurses fight AI & dozens more articles...
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If the workers surrender control over working relations to legislative and administrative agents, they put their industrial liberty at the disposal of state agents. — Samuel Gompers, 1915
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Fired correction officers fight for reinstatement, health coverage
Over 2,000 New York correction officers were fired after a prison strike, including many who were on medical or family leave. Among them was Jerri Cottrell, who the Times Union in Albany recently profiled. She was pregnant and terminated just two weeks before giving birth. Officers lost their health insurance, leaving some without critical medical care.
VTA union strike to continue, officials tap Gov. Newsom for help
South Bay public transportation workers continued to strike through the weekend, a union spokesman said, after negotiations between Valley Transportation Authority officials and the union failed Saturday.
As AI nurses reshape hospital care, human nurses are pushing back
…[T]the most visible sign of AI’s inroads into health care, where hundreds of hospitals are using increasingly sophisticated computer programs to monitor patients' vital signs, flag emergency situations and trigger step-by-step action plans for care — jobs that were all previously handled by nurses and other health professionals.
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