Showing posts with label Bonnie Castillo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bonnie Castillo. Show all posts
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Senate to hear from Filipino American nurse leader supporting Medicare for All

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NNU PHOTO Bonnie Castillo leads National Nurses United, the largest RN union in the U.S. National Nurses United (NNU) Executive Director Bon...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

Nurses hail SCOTUS ruling for mandated vaccines for health workers, but decry Justices decision denying mandate for other workers

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NNU Candles were used to represent the nurses who have died from COVID-19. On the same day that nurses across the U.S. were rallying for saf...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Nurses to hold national day of action Jan. 13 to demand employers, Biden administration protect RNs, health care workers

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CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION At the frontline of the pandemic, nurses assert working conditions are unsafe. Filipino American nurse leaders...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Ceremony planned to remember and honor RNs felled by COVID-19

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NNU Bonnie Castillo, (in black) leads the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S. The 400 registered nurses who have died in the Unit...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Nurses support Biden's plan for COVID-19 and economic relief

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NATIONAL NURSES UNITED Bonnie Castillo, front right, heads up the country's largest union for RNs. President Joe Biden's plan for re...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

FilAm History Month: Nurses carry on the tradition of Filipino American activism

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A portion of a gallery of those Filipino health workers of those who have perished due to the coronavirus. Almost every day, Kanlungan adds ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

23 Asians and AAPIs among Time's 100 Most Influential people this year

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Time magazine's covers used around the world to promote the Top 100 Influential People. Time magazine named its 2020 TIME100, its annual...
Saturday, August 8, 2020

Thousands of nurses rally for personal protective gear amidst pandemic

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NNU Nurses demonstrate outside of Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center. Seven months into a pandemic and nurses are still fighting for the pers...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Veteran nurse dies from the coronavirus a week before she was supposed to retire

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SCREEN CAPTURE Jhulan Banago holds a picture of his late mother, Celia Yap-Banago, during a candlelight ceremony. A week before...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Nurses risking their lives caring for coronavirus patients plead for more protective gear

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Nationwide, nurses are pleading for help from Donald Trump who can order manufacturers to make protective gear. As the first member of ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Two AAPI health professionals die from COVID-19

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Dr. Alex Hsu, left, and nurse Araceli Buendia Llagan died from the coronavirus. ASAM NEWS An ICU nurse from Jackson Memorial Hospita...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Nurses: California needs to do more on protective gear

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Bonnie Castillo, RN, executive director of the National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association. The coronavirus infection...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Filipino American nurses say hospitals ill-prepared for coronavirus pandemic

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NATIONAL NURSES UNITED Nurse Bonnie Castillo, executive director of National Nurses United. When the novel coronavirus hit California,...