Nurses picketing outside hospital holding signs "Patients over Profits"

Nurses at 17 HCA facilities in six states ratify new union contracts

The new agreements bring improvements in staffing practices and patient care.

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Winning Big

How UCLA’s PPC stopped the practice of doubling patients in single-occupancy rooms.

NNU building nurse power, 2021-2024

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Press releases

Nurses from the James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Bronx will be caravaning to Tarrytown, N.Y., on Thursday, Nov. 7, to call on the VA to lift barriers to hiring staff to fill RN positions to ensure safe patient care.
NNOC/NNU endorsed Stein because of his support for nurses and their patients, including but not limited to: his advocacy for Medicaid expansion and his defense of the Affordable Care Act in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, which protected millions of North Carolinians with preexisting conditions.
Hemet Global Medical Center registered nurses successfully prevented the planned Oct. 31, 2024 closure of the hospital’s obstetrics department. Nurses had previously warned that the hospital’s remaining staff would have neither the capacity nor the specialized training to adequately care for patients coming in for perinatal services.
Health care workers at San Gabriel Valley Medical Center in San Gabriel, California, and Whittier Hospital Medical Center in Whittier, California, voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new four-year contract on October 29 and 30, winning protections to improve patient safety and staff retention.

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Videos

We can organize and win — anywhere

Hear from nurses in Maine, North Carolina, and North Dakota on how and why they organized their hospitals.

The Power of a Union Contract

Union contracts are legal binding documents that protect patients, nurses, and the community.

National Nurse Magazine

Shot in the Arm: NNU nurses inject values of care, compassion, community into presedential election, endorse Harris-Walz

NNU endorses Vice President Kamala Harris for president

Harris backs nurses, patients, unions, reproductive rights, working people

Albany Med nurses fight to protect patient care

Hospital critical not only for capital region but across state

MNA welcomes upwards of 700 nurses into union so far this year

Workers now join their 22,000 MNA union siblings as they begin the process of bargaining

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