Medicine and Healthcare Trade Unions - Public Employees Federation, United Public Workers of America, Royal College of Nursing (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Public Employees Federation, United Public Workers of America, Royal College of Nursing, Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, United Steelworkers, Rhode Island Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals, New York State United Teachers, California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, Health Professionals and Allied Employees, Communications Workers of America, United Nurses and Allied Professionals, National Emergency Medical Services Association, Health Services Union NSW, United Nurses of Alberta, British Dietetic Association, Danish Association of Pharmaconomists, Washington State Nurses Association, The Danish Nurses' Organization, Union of Health and Social Care Professionals, Medical Practitioners' Union, Ontario Nurses' Association, National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union, Canadian Federation of Nurses' Union, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union, Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, United American Nurses, Manitoba Nurses' Union. Excerpt: The Public Employees Federation is an American union representing 55,599 professional, scientific, and technical public employees in the state of New York. The union (known by its acronym, PEF) is one of the largest local white-collar unions in the United States and is New York's second-largest state-employee union. PEF also represents employees who work in private-sector jobs and local government agencies. The union publishes The Communicator, a newsletter with a 2007 distribution of 70,000, on a monthly basis. In 1971, 61-year-old George Hardy was elected president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Under Hardy, SEIU's health care and public employee divisions saw rapid growth. Much of the membership growth, however, came throug...