Big Banks liquidating your workplace like Hartmarx suit makers in Chicago? Now there's a place to turn to for resources to fight back.

Yesterday, SEIU launched "Keep America Working" -- a toll-free hotline and website to support small business owners and workers facing job loss because of frozen credit and liquidation at the hands of bailed-out banks. The new website is www.keepworkinghotline.org and the hotline number is 877-286-1Job (it will be open Monday-Friday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. EDT).

Up until now, there has been no system in place to hold banks accountable for their lending practices, despite the fact that they have received more than $410 billion in taxpayer bailout funds in an effort to restore lending and get the economy moving. The Keep America Working hotline and website will help shed light on the shortsighted practices of big banks who have failed to live up to their responsibilities to taxpayers and are now pushing for company and worker liquidation. SEIU is also working with Rep. Hare and Rep. Schakowsky in getting support from their colleagues to draft a letter to Treasury Secretary Geithner to enlist his help to protect jobs in our communities and hold banks accountable who received TARP for actions that undercut a meaningful economic recovery.

Some of the banks who act as prime lenders to companies that are currently liquidating jobs include--no surprise here-- Bank of America and Wells Fargo. If you're a business owner or employee that's affected by big banks like these putting the squeeze on your company, visit www.keepworkinghotline.org and let us know.

You need help - and you're certainly not getting it from the banks. So call the hotline at 1-877-286-1JOB or visit www.KeepWorkingHotline.org

I'm getting a little tired of National Nurses Day being treated like another Hallmark holiday.

I know I'm not alone; I've been talking to the RNs in my hospital about this. So, we've decided today isn't going to be like any Nurses Day before it. This year, you can keep your flowers and candy. This year, RNs are demanding something real. We're calling a code on our broken health care system.

Click here to help us take back National Nurses Day: www.seiu.org/RNs2congress

One member of Congress, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) has always gotten how important nurses are to fixing health care. And she's asking RNs to make sure her colleagues get it, too:

"You are on the frontline of our failing medical system, so you know where we can cut waste, how we can eliminate bureaucracies, and what it will take to improve care.

Nurses are the most trusted messengers in this upcoming debate, and your voices are critical in shaping reform and ensuring its passage."

Will you help me call a code on health care? Dial toll-free 1-866-210-3678 to be connected to your Senators' offices. Click here to learn more: www.seiu.org/RNs2congress

I decided long ago it's not only my responsibility, but also my duty - to my patients and my fellow nurses - to stand up and lead in the fight for quality, affordable health care.

I hope you share that same sense of duty. If you do join me in calling a code today. Call 1-866-210-3678 to connect with your member of Congress. While you're on the call, click here to see a sample script and a report-back form on our website.

Thanks for speaking out for your patients,

Cathy Glasson, RN
Value Care, Value Nurses

P.S. If you're looking for a little inspiration, check out this video of Linda Bock at the White House. It's moments like these that National Nurses Day are all about.