The powerful California Nurses Association is reveling in the defeat it helped hand Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in last week's special election. Now, it appears that the nurses have won the fight which initially caused relations between the governor and nurses groups to deteriorate in the first place. On Thursday, Schwarzenegger's administration abandoned its effort to legally block new staffing rules which will require hospitals to hire more nurses to meet minimum nurse-to-patient ratios.
- see this article from the Los Angeles Times
PLUS: The SEIU appears to have won a big victory in the settlement of its labor dispute with Sutter at two San Francisco hospitals. Report