Today the Wisconsin State Senate Health Committee took a giant step forward to protect Wisconsin patients. The committee, chaired by Senator Jon Erpenbach, voted to approve SB 108, the bill to ban mandatory overtime for nurses and healthcare workers. Read the press release...

A joint document that offers guidelines for labor organizing in Catholic hospitals, was released June 22nd by the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB). This marks an unprecedented and giant step forward in positive labor-management relations and creates a fair and balanced process for workers to choose whether or not to form a union; according to the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (WFNHP).

WFNHP issues press release in response to Wisconsin Hospital Association's statement that they do not believe mandatory overtime is appropriate or a frequently used staffing strategy; however, in order to protect patients must remain an option.

Legislation to ban mandatory overtime for Wisconsin nurses and healthcare workers was announced Tuesday, February 24th, at a press conference at the Capitol. Mandatory overtime is unsafe for patients and is driving nurses out of the profession, further worsening the nursing shortage.

WFNHP held a press conference preceding the annual Nurses Day celebration in Milwaukee to release survey results from over 1,500 Milwaukee-area nurses.  The survey was conducted during the month of April 2008.

The Wisconsin Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals will hold a press conference today, May 5th, to release a new survey of Milwaukee-area nurses.

Legislation to advance the ban on mandatory overtime took a step forward today...

January 23, 2008 - Wisconsin Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals, AFT, AFL-CIO, endorses Milwaukee Mayor, Tom Barrett.

Aurora Health Care's decision to build a hospital four miles away from Columbia St. Mary's Ozaukee facility is unnecessary and will ultimately result in higher costs for patients.