If you're willing to wade through some (tounge-in-cheek) problematic gender politics, Alek has an encouraging post on the California Nurses' Associations' legal victory over Schwartzenegger's attempt to rollback the staffing ratios they'd won:

So the CNA sued, and for the last two months they have been targeting Schwartzenegger in force. Last Friday, Judge Judy Holzer Hersher issued an injunction against the emergency regulation, and told Arnold that instead of appealing he should just go sit in the back of the class and babble incoherently about steroids like an idiot. It's possible I was reading between the lines a little there.

The highlight is Nurse Martha Kuhl's fierce and unapologetic rejection, in a Newsweek interview, of the idea that working people fighting for a real social contract represent a greedy "special interest":

I spent my day treating kids with cancer. I guess you could call that my special interest.