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AJN Discontinues Ad with Strikebreaking FirmWashington, DC -- The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) recently published an ad from a company that is known to provide strikebreakers to health care employers whose nurses are on strike. Although AJN is the official journal of the American Nurses Association (ANA), based on ANA's sale of the journal in 1996 to an independent publisher, ANA no longer has authority to determine publishing policies for AJN, including the acceptance of advertising and nature of editorial content. ANA was gravely disappointed with AJN's decision to run the ad because ANA is adamantly opposed to relationships with strikebreaking nurses and companies that supply them. Therefore, ANA was highly pleased when AJN advised the association that they were no longer accepting advertising from the strikebreaking firm starting with their June 2001 issue. The ANA certainly understands and empathizes with the anger and sadness that nurses, particularly those who have made the difficult decision to go on strike, feel over the issue of strikebreakers. The ANA shares their concerns about this type of advertising and the damage that strikebreaking nurses and the companies that engage in strikebreaking can do to the goals of nurses who are on strike. ANA strongly condemns companies that participate in these practices and has even picketed such firms in the past. ANA knows that strikebreaking endangers patients, undermines nurses and delays strike resolutions. # # # The American Nurses Association is the only full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.7 million Registered Nurses through its constituent member state nurses associations. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.  Sign up to receive ANA Press Releases by e-mail
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