The University of California and the California Nurses Association ratified a four-year agreement for nearly 24, 000 registered nurses that includes an 18. 5% minimum increase in wages over the life of the four-year contract across the university’s 19 medical centers and campuses, the union announced on Saturday, Nov. 22. CNA said in its statement that the contract also caps health care premium increases and adds “protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.” A union spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about how many members voted to support or reject ratification of the contract, or what the new minimum hourly wage is under the contract for first year nurses. “UC nurses were unified in our demands for a contract that reversed and halted UC management’s growing practice of short-staffing facilities, cutting back on resources, and forcing [registered nurses] to do more with less support,” said Marlene Tucay, an RN at UC Irvine and member of the CNC bargaining team, in a statement. “As a result of the commitment of all CNA members, we won a contract that will improve outcomes for nurses and our patients.” A UC spokeswoman was not immediately available for comment. The new contract, which also places restrictions on UC floating RNs between facilities and adds improvements to meal and rest breaks and workplace violence-prevention policies, covers the period Nov. 1, 2025, to Jan. 31, 2029. Under the contract, RNs were guaranteed a central role in selecting, designing and validating new technology, including artificial intelligence systems, the CNA stated. Registered nurses provide and coordinate patient care and educate patients and the public about various health conditions, according to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. CNA becomes the second major union to ratify a new labor contract with UC in recent days. On Nov. 20, the University Professional and Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America Local 9119, which represents 19, 664 healthcare, research and technical professionals, ratified its contract with UC. The UPTE-CWA union’s agreement provides a roughly 28% pay bump over the next four years, pension contributions, caps on health care premium increases, and improvements to career advancement steps and work-life balance. Bargaining between the university and CNA and UPTE-CWA began in June 2024 ahead of the contract expiration with each of the unions on Oct. 31, 2024. Earlier this month, after CNA and UPTE-CWA reached a tentative deal with UC, the unions cancelled plans to join picket lines with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, which represents 37, 481 service and patient care technical workers at UC, ahead of a Nov. 17-18 strike. The plans to cancel participation in the strike would have brought more than 80, 000 union members including CNA, UPTE-CWA and AFSCME to the picket lines last Monday and Tuesday in what they described as a historic display of solidarity against UC. As of Saturday, AFSCME Local 3299 was still in talks with UC negotiators. That union’s contract also expired last year, with its members going out on strike Nov. 17-18. “UC’s disappointing tone deafness to the affordability crisis plaguing its lowest paid frontline workers persists,” said Todd Stenhouse, a spokesman for AFSCME Local 3299. Michael Avant, president of AFSCME Local 3299, has made a point of criticizing the UC system for spending billions of dollars acquiring new facilities, “lavishing exorbitant raises on its wealthiest executives and funding housing assistance programs to help these same ivory tower elites buy mansions or second homes” though not offering its frontline workers enough to “pay the rent or keep pace with the skyrocketing cost of groceries.”.
https://www.dailybreeze.com/2025/11/22/24000-registered-nurses-ratify-new-four-year-contract-with-uc/
Month: November 2025
The original Dawn of War games have 109 new Steam achievements after 20 years—if you have the definitive edition, at least
I’m no RTS expert, but I’m nonetheless ride or die for Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War. I’ve poured what must be hundreds of hours into campaign and skirmish modes across the game’s four versions, gleefully gunning down gue’la for the greater good and deep striking dreadnoughts where they are least welcome. Granted, there’s no record of my wartime victories, as the Steam versions of these games (and the CD-ROM versions of my youth) never had acheivements-until now. That only holds for the recently released definitive edition, which as Sean Martin said in his impressions is a “sparing” but superlative version of the classic RTS series, but the GOG version has the achievements as well. You can find the full list on a Steam News Hub blog post from Thursday, and they’re about what you’d expect. There are achievements for winning a skirmish and multiplayer match as every faction, seeing each ending across the various story campaigns, and more flavorful ones like killing 666 space marines while playing as chaos marines. There’s also an accolade for deploying each of the games’ relic units-big monsters like the Greater Knarloc and the Bloodthirster-which was always a hype moment in-game, even if matches didn’t always go on long enough to facilitate it. None of them should prove particularly elusive, provided you can find enough opponents online to get all the multiplayer achievements. There’s also “The Grim Darkness of the Far Future,” where you’re meant to kill 40, 000 enemy units. hopefully you’ll be fighting lots of imperial guardsmen. The new achievements won’t account for prior progress, as the blog post notes: “With a 20-year-old game as our starting point, we did not have much in the way of existing stat tracking to use, so we had to add that in this latest patch to support achievements.” That being said, you only have to finish a campaign to get credit; if you have one beaten, you should be able to replay just the final mission and cross it off your list. I’m not much of a completionist, but I will take any excuse to revisit some of the greatest strategy games ever made. If you see me in multiplayer, feel free to let me win! I’m just here for the achievement, after all.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rts/the-original-dawn-of-war-games-have-109-new-steam-achievements-after-20-years-if-you-have-the-definitive-edition-at-least/
No. 20 Tennessee dominates Florida and wins in the Swamp for the first time since 2003
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) DeSean Bishop ran for 116 yards and two touchdowns, including one that ended with a flip into the end zone, and No. 20 Tennessee overwhelmed rival Florida 31-11 on Saturday night to win in the Swamp for the first time since 2003. The Volunteers (8-3, 4-3 Southeastern Conference) had dropped 10.
https://mymotherlode.com/sports/college-sports-general-news/10221383/no-20-tennessee-dominates-florida-and-wins-in-the-swamp-for-the-first-time-since-2003.html
Paramount Skydance is currently winning the war to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount Skydance has the inside track to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, according to well-placed media executives and it’s all about a cable network that has a troubled relationship with Donald Trump. As first reported by The Post, the battle for control of WBD officially kicked off on Thursday at noon, as Paramount Skydance, Comcast and Netflix submitted bids for WBD, which owns the No. 1 Hollywood studio and the No. 3 streaming service in addition to HBO and CNN. In a twist that is in some respects surprising, it is CNN that is seen as key to giving Paramount Skydance a leg up on other bidders, I am told. That’s because PSKY’s owners tech titan Larry Ellison and his Hollywood mogul son, David Ellison appear to be the only bidders that so far are interested in buying the WBD cable-news subsidiary as part of the deal. They see CNN, warts and all, as a very profitable business worth saving. Trump, meanwhile, desperately wants CNN whose correspondents regularly spar with him at the White House and on Air Force One “neutralized” out of its anti-MAGA coverage, one top broadcast executive recently told. And in his thinking, Larry Ellison, the billionaire Trump donor who is co-founder of software giant Oracle, is the perfect vehicle to set CNN straight. Specifically, Trump wants the Ellisons to do to CNN what they are doing with their CBS subsidiary after hiring Bari Weiss, the right-of-center columnist who is under orders to squeeze left-wing bias out of its news programming. If Paramount Skydance wins the bidding battle, Weiss’s portfolio is expected to expand to also include oversight of CNN’s editorial, according to sources. ‘White-glove treatment’ Given all of the above, the Ellisons’ bid is seen gliding through the Trump regulatory gauntlet. Meanwhile, Brian Roberts’ Comcast and streaming giant Netflix are poised to get the mother-of-all regulatory reviews. “The Ellisons will get the white-glove treatment and an easy 6 months before approval,” one telecom lawyer who served in government told me. “Brian Roberts gets a proctology exam that could last two years. Same with Netflix. The Warner board might just say it’s not worth the wait.” The Ellisons, it should be underscored, aren’t looking to take control of CNN just to make nice with The Donald. Sources at the company say they actually like CNN’s business despite the broad decline in linear TV viewership and its lowish ratings particularly compared to my employer, Fox News. People at Paramount Skydance point to CNN’s global news reach with reporters in just about every country. It’s in every airport, it seems, and every hotel. They believe the network which still churns out an estimated $500 million in yearly profits can be made more profitable by combining it with CBS’s news infrastructure and continuing its migration to digital platforms away from traditional cable. Larry Ellison can easily afford to make that happen. Since The Post first broke the news of a looming WBD auction back in September, its CEO, David Zaslav, a shrewd media dealmaker, has said he wants a deal that “starts with a 3” namely a deal valued at $30 a share, or $70 billion. He only gets that with a real-live bidding war, and media insiders are increasingly dubious. First, neither Comcast nor Netflix will likely shell out that much because they are only bidding for chunks of WBD as opposed to the whole company. In selling pieces of the company, WBD could be hit with a tax bill known as tax leakage that is common in such M&A transactions, depressing its valuation. Regulatory pressure Then there’s the regulatory mountain which both Comcast and Netflix have to climb and which Paramount doesn’t. Brian Roberts is set to spin off his Trump-hating cable channel, MSNBC, nullifying some of the antitrust issues on media consolidation. But Trump isn’t about to forgive him for years of abuse at the hands of Rachel Maddow & Co. Accordingly, the thinking among lawyers who work on such deals is that if Comcast wins the bidding war, his antitrust chief Gail Slater will sue to stop the deal, focusing a lengthy probe on the fact that Comcast will be merging its Universal Studios with Warner Bros. Roberts can go to court to plead his case and it’s worth noting that the government has a horrible record on such lawsuits. Still, we’re talking nearly two years of legal wrangling that the WBD board might think isn’t worth the trouble. Netflix faces similar hurdles because it would combine its No. 1 streaming service with WBD’s No. 3. And let’s not forget its political baggage. While Roberts has the MSNBC albatross, Netflix is run by Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos, who have spent years supporting progressive causes from the Left Coast. That’s why the Ellisons believe they can get away with paying no more than $27 a share for WBD significantly below Zas’ $30 a share bogey.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/business/paramount-skydance-is-currently-winning-the-war-to-acquire-warner-bros-discovery/
Maine’s Platner: ‘If I Had My Way’ Google and Palantir ‘Wouldn’t Exist’
WINDHAM, Maine-Senate candidate Graham Platner (D., Maine) said Google and Palantir “wouldn’t exist” if he had his way. The post Maine’s Platner: ‘If I Had My Way’ Google and Palantir ‘Wouldn’t Exist’ appeared first on.
https://www.conservativereview.com/maines-platner-if-i-had-my-way-google-and-palantir-wouldnt-exist-2674334750.html
“That’s all I care about right now”: When Kyle Larson made it clear where his focus lies before the Daytona 500
Kyle Larson had a lot on his plate for the 2024 season. He had to prepare for his second straight Indy 500 appearance while running for a NASCAR championship.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/nascar/that-s-i-care-right-now-when-kyle-larson-made-clear-focus-lies-daytona-500
Cross country: 3 teams, 9 individuals run to state-qualifying marks at NCS championships
The North Bay will be well represented once again at the state high school cross country championships on Thanksgiving weekend.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/11/22/cross-country-3-teams-9-individuals-run-to-state-qualifying-marks-at-ncs-championships/
INJ Price Prediction: Technical Recovery to $6.33 Before December Correction to $5.17
INJ Price Prediction Summary • INJ short-term target with a stop-loss at $5. 19. This approach targets the $6. 33 level with a favorable 2: 1 risk-reward ratio. Aggressive Entry: Current levels around $5. 44 offer proximity to strong support, but require a tight stop-loss below $5. 19 to manage downside risk to the $5. 17 target. Position sizing should remain conservative given the mixed analyst sentiment and the proximity to 52-week lows. The technical setup suggests INJ could move decisively in either direction within the next two weeks. INJ Price Prediction Conclusion Our Injective forecast anticipates a near-term recovery to $6. 33 within one week, supported by oversold technical conditions and analyst optimism surrounding the Altria upgrade. However, the medium-term outlook remains cautious, with a potential decline to $5. 17 by December 21 if broader market conditions deteriorate. Confidence Level: Medium for the $6. 33 target, Medium-Low for the $5. 17 bearish scenario. Key indicators to monitor include the RSI breaking above 35 for bullish confirmation and MACD histogram turning positive. Failure to hold $5. 19 support would validate the bearish $5. 17 INJ price target. The timeline for this prediction spans the next 4-6 weeks, with the initial recovery phase expected within 7-10 days. The Altria upgrade remains the wildcard that could invalidate bearish scenarios and propel INJ toward the higher analyst targets of $7. 50-$9. 17.
https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/tech/inj-price-prediction-technical-recovery-to-6-33-before-december-correction-to-5-17/
SRX racing alum ‘disappointed but not surprised’ by NASCAR chiefs’ attitude
NASCAR reporter Tom Bowles, who also happens to be a former SRX racing alum, has recently made his stance clear on the leaked texts between NASCAR leaders Steve O’Donnell and Steve Phelps.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/nascar/news-srx-racing-alum-disappointed-surprised-nascar-chiefs-attitude
Report: Lane Johnson will not require surgery on his foot injury
Eagles right tackle Lane Johnson will not require surgery for his Lis Franc foot injury, Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The Eagles did not place Johnson on injured reserve on Saturday. The initial prognosis was 4-6 weeks, which would have likely kept Johnson out until the postseason. According to McLane, Johnson will have X-rays after the swelling subsides in his right foot, but Johnson might miss only three games. The Eagles play the Cowboys, Bears and Chargers in the next three games. Fred Johnson will start in Lane Johnson’s absence. The Eagles are 120-62-1 in games Lane Johnson has played and 15-24 in games he has not, including the playoffs, since he joined them as a first-round pick in 2013.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/report-lane-johnson-will-not-require-surgery-on-his-foot-injury