Illinois Walgreen clinic nurses organizing

Mar. 18, 2011
Nurse practitioners at clinics in Walgreen drug stores in Illinois are taking steps to form a union.The Illinois Nurses Association announced Thursday it has agreed to represent approximately 180 nurse practitioners who work in Take Care Clinics in the Chicago area, Rockford and Peoria.

Cook County nurses threaten strike

Dec. 23, 2010
Cook County’s health system says it will cut about 300 positions in fiscal 2011. But a nurses union is threatening to strike over the plan. The cash-strapped county’s Health and Hospitals System has been shrinking its payroll for years.