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Minn. nurses approve second strike at 14 hospitals – The Associated Press

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Minn. nurses approve second strike at 14 hospitals The Associated Press The Minnesota Nurses Association said 84 percent of nurses voted yes to authorize the longer strike. The union needed at least 66 percent of voting nurses … Twin Cities nurses union approves indefinite hospital strikePioneer Press Minnesota nurses overwhelmingly approve open-ended strikeMedCity News Somber Twin Cities nurses say 'yes' to strikeMinneapolis Star Tribune WCCO -ModernHealthcare.com -Workday Minnesota all 213 news articles »

Nurses, hospitals still debating how to negotiate – KARE

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Nurses, hospitals still debating how to negotiate KARE But this time, the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) strike would be open-ended. The vote will follow a week of both sides trying to negotiate just how … Minnesota nurses union plots next move in labor disputeMedCity News Minnesota hospitals to return to talks with nursesBusinessWeek Twin Cities hospitals tell nurses they'll talk with one conditionMinneapolis Star Tribune WCCO -Minnesota Public Radio -FOX 9 News all 98 news articles »

Minn. nurses strike is part of new union’s push – The Associated Press

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Minn. nurses strike is part of new union's push The Associated Press "It has pushed nurses to finally create a national voice," Rachleff said. ___ Online: Minnesota Nurses Association: http://mnnurses.org/ Twin Cities … Minnesota Nurses Association holds one-day strikeBizjournals.com Thousands of Nurses Strike in MinnesotaABC News National Nurses United Salutes the Minnesota Nurses Association for Historic …PR Newswire (press release) BNET -WCCO -Pioneer Press all 1,641 news articles »

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Minnesota nurses authorize open-ended strike on 14 Minneapolis …Linda Hamilton president of the Minnesota Nurses Association said in a written statement….[Read More]

Minnesota Nurses Approve Second Strike At 14 Hospitals. US Post …
About 12000 nurses went on a one-day strike on June 10 saying they wanted increased staffing in the hospitals and didnt want cuts to their pension. Minnesota nurses approve second strike at 14 hospitals. Minnesota Nurses Association ……[Read More]

Nurses Strike Vote Round 2 Underway Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ
Photo Nurses lined up to vote at the Minnesota Nurses Association headquarters in St. Paul Minn. Monday June 21 2010. The 12000 nurses representing 14 Twin Cities hospitals are voting today to authorize an open-ended strike. ……[Read More]

BREAKING NEWS Twin Cities Nurses Vote Resoundingly To Authorize …
This is a vote we never wanted to take said Linda Hamilton a Registered Nurse at Childrens Hospital and President of the Minnesota Nurses Association. The hospitals forced us to this point by adamantly refusing to address even a ……[Read More]

Minnesota Nurses Rx For Union Revival SocialistWorker.org
Minnesota Nurses Association members are demonstrating how to begin rebuilding old union traditions of solidarity and democracy….[Read More]

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Are Microwaves Dangerous?

I’ve heard both sides, and I want to know whether they’re dangerous. I found on a website (http://www.relfe.com/microwave.html) that:

"MICROWAVE COOKING
is Killing People!

By Stephanie Relfe B.Sc. (Sydney)

Microwave cooking is one of the most important causes of ill health. It is certainly one of the most ignored.

There was a lawsuit in 1991 in Oklahoma. A woman named Norma Levitt had hip surgery, but was killed by a simple blood transfusion when a nurse "warmed the blood for the transfusion in a microwave oven!"

Logic suggests that if heating is all there is to microwave cooking, then it doesn’t matter how something is heated. Blood for transfusions is routinely warmed, but not in microwave ovens. Does it not therefore follow that microwaving cooking does something quite different?

A little evidence of the harm caused by microwaving cooking was given by the University of Minnesota in a radio announcement:

"Microwaves … are not recommended for heating a baby’s bottle. The bottle may seem cool to the touch, but the liquid inside may become extremely hot and could burn the baby’s mouth and throat… Heating the bottle in a microwave can cause slight changes in the milk. In infant formulas, there may be a loss of some vitamins. In expressed breast milk, some protective properties may be destroyed…. Warming a bottle by holding it under tap water or by setting it in a bowl of warm water, then testing it on your wrist before feeding, may take a few minutes longer, but it is much safer".
There have been very few scientific studies done on the effect of eating food microwaved food. This is rather surprising when you think about the fact that microwaves have been with us for only a few decades – and that in that time the incidence of many diseases has continued to increase.

Two researchers, Blanc and Hertel, confirmed that microwave cooking significantly changes food nutrients. Hertel previously worked as a food scientist for several years with one of the major Swiss food companies. He was fired from his job for questioning procedures in processing food because they denatured it. He got together with Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Biochemistry and the University Institute for Biochemistry.

They studied the effect that microwaved food had on eight individuals, by taking blood samples immediately after eating. They found that after eating microwaved food, haemoglobin levels decreased. "These results show anaemic tendencies. The situation became even more pronounced during the second month of the study".

Who knows what results they would have found if they had studied people who ate microwaved food for a year or more?

The violent change that microwaving causes to the food molecules forms new life forms called radiolytic compounds. These are mutations that are unknown in the natural world. Ordinary cooking also causes the formation of some radiolytic compounds (which is no doubt one reason why it is better to eat plenty of raw food), but microwaving cooking causes a much greater number. This then causes deterioration in your blood and immune system.

Lymphocytes (white blood cells) also showed a more distinct short-term decrease following the intake of microwaved food than after the intake of all the other variants.

Another change was a decrease in the ratio of HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) values.

Each of these indicators pointed to degeneration

The results were published in "Search for Health" in the Spring of 1992. How was this research greeted? A powerful trade organisation, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electroapparatuses for Households and Industry somehow made the President of the Court of Seftigen issue a `gag order’. Hertel and Blanc were told that if they published their findings they would face hefty fines or up to one year in prison. In response to this, Blanc recanted his findings. Hertel, on the other hand, went on a lecture tour and demanded a jury trial.

FINALLY, in 1998 the Court `Gag Order’ was removed. In a judgment delivered at Strasbourg on 25 August 1998 in the case of Hertel v. Switzerland, the European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Hertel’s rights in the 1993 decision. The Court decided that the `gag order’ prohibiting him form declaring that microwaved food is dangerous to health was contrary to the right to freedom of expression. In addition, Switzerland was sentenced to pay compensation of F40,000.

RUSSIANS BAN MICROWAVE OVENS

After the World War II, the Russians also experimented with microwave ovens. From 1957 up to recently, their research has been carried out mainly at the Institute of Radio Technology at Klinsk, Byelorussia. According to US researcher William Kopp, who gathered much of the results of Russian and German research – and was apparently prosecuted for doing so
1. Heating prepared meats in a microwave sufficiently for human consumption created:
* d-Nitrosodiethanolamine (a well-known cancer-causing agent)
* Destabilization of active protein biomolecular compounds
* Creation of a binding effect to radioactivity in the atmosphere
* Creation of cancer-causing agents within protein-hydrosylate compounds in milk and cereal grains;
2. Microwave emissions also caused alteration in the catabolic (breakdown) behavior of glucoside – and galactoside – elements within frozen fruits when thawed in this way;
3. Microwaves altered catabolic behavior of plant-alkaloids when raw, cooked or frozen vegetables were exposed for even very short periods;
4. Cancer-causing free radicals were formed within certain trace-mineral molecular formations in plant substances, especially in raw root vegetables;
5. Ingestion of micro-waved foods caused a higher percentage of cancerous cells in blood;
6. Due to chemical alterations within food substances, malfunctions occur