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Miscellaneous news articles about President Cheryl Johnson
Bureau of National Affairs/Daily Labor Report
Modern Healthcare Online
Nurses union president dies
Modern Healthcare Online
Story posted: October 30, 2007 - 11:30 am EDT
Cheryl Johnson, president of the United American Nurses, one of the nation’s largest nurses unions, died Oct. 28 after suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm, the union said in a written statement. She was 57.
Johnson was the Silver Spring, Md.-based union’s first president. The UAN was formed in 1999. She was also president of the Michigan Nurses Association. Johnson, a resident of Brighton, Mich., worked 37 years as a critical-care nurse with the University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, the UAN said. In 2004, Johnson ranked No. 56 on Modern Healthcare’s list of healthcare’s 100 most powerful people. -- by Melanie Evans
Bureau of National Affairs/Daily Labor Report
No. 209
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
Page A-10 |
ISSN 1522-5968 |
News In Brief |
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Unions
Nurses' Union President Cheryl Johnson Dies |
Cheryl Johnson, president of the United American Nurses, which represents more than 100,000 registered nurses nationwide, died Oct. 28, more than a week after suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm.
Johnson, 57, was the first and only president of UAN, which was created in 1999 as the collective bargaining arm of the American Nurses Association. She was serving her fourth term at the time of her death.
UAN Vice President Ann Converso, who will serve the remainder of Johnson's term until March 2008, in an Oct. 29 statement said Johnson was "a guiding force in the founding and creation of the UAN as the national union for staff nurses. The profession of nursing and the labor community are the poorer for her passing."
According to the union, Johnson guided UAN to an "historic affiliation" with AFL-CIO in the summer of 2001 (127 DLR A-1, 7/3/01). Following that affiliation, Johnson was elected to the AFL-CIO Executive Council and later became a member of the federation's smaller Executive Committee. In 2005, she was named a vice president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women. While serving as UAN president, Johnson continued to work as a critical care nurse at the University of Michigan Health Systems in Ann Arbor, Mich., where she had practiced for 37 years. She also was serving her third term as president of the Michigan Nurses Association.
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