Chuck Idelson

Chuck Idelson

Charles (Chuck) Idelson is the Communications Director for the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, the nation's largest organization of direct care registered nurses with 80,000 members from California to Maine.

Chuck Idelson, retired, is the former Communications Senior Strategist for National Nurses United, the nation's largest union and professional organization of registered nurses with 225,00 members.

People's Daily World

In 1986 Charles Idelson was a Staff Writer for the Communist Party USA newspaper People's Daily World

Idelson was the author of two articles in the People's Daily World PDW, January 13, 1989, "Assail California move to cut family planning", San Francisco, p. 2; and co-authored with Danny Spector, "SANE/Freeze to honor King with drive for homeless", p. 3. He was also identified as a PDW "Staff Writer" on p. 9.

Chuck Idelson was listed as a "Staff Writer" for the PDW, Feb. 28, 1990, p. 12.

Idelson was still listed as a "Staff" writer for the People's Weekly World PWW, April 20, 1991, p. 14, and had an article on page 4, "Americans held hostage in Iran and at home."

Communist Party reformer

In 1991 Chuck Idelson, Northern California was one of several hundred Communist Party USA members to sign the a paper "An initiative to Unite and Renew the Party" - most signatories left the Party after the December 1991 conference to found Committees of Correspondence.

California Nurses Association

In a Politico article about Kamala Harris, "A Political Star Rises in California: In a close race for attorney general, Kamala Harris has Dems gazing upward", by Alexander Burns, a Chuck Idelson was quoted about her race against Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley. (Harris is the current, 2010, San Francisco District Attorney). Idelson was identified as:

"a spokesman for the Democrat-friendly California Nurses Association."