Press Releases

USC Keck and Norris Cancer Center nurses

USC Keck and Norris Cancer Center nurses to hold car caravan for patient safety and safe staffing

USC registered nurses at Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center will hold a car caravan on Saturday, May 1 to protest years of understaffing and the lack of an adequate staffing plan by administration.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
April 28, 2021

Nurse holds sign "Protect Essential Workers"

Nurses Welcome Movement on Federal Workplace Safety Standard, Urge Quick Approval as Pandemic Surges

National Nurses United today welcomed the Biden Administration’s decision to take an important step toward issuing an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to ensure safe workplaces for nurses, and other health care and essential workers.

National Nurses United
April 26, 2021

UCLA Santa Monica nurses

UCLA Santa Monica nurses to hold protest for patient safety

Registered nurses at the University of California Los Angeles, Santa Monica campus, will hold a socially distant protest on Monday, Apr. 26 to call on management to immediately address the unsafe environment and working conditions that put patient safety at risk.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
April 23, 2021

Community First Medical Center RNs

RNs at Community First alert public to patient safety concerns during Covid-19 pandemic

Registered nurses at Community First Medical Center in Chicago will hold a virtual press conference and an in-person picket on Friday, April 23 to alert the public to a variety of alarming state and federal violations that nurses say jeopardize patient safety.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
April 22, 2021

CalCare: California Guaranteed Health Care for All

California nurses say that delaying action on establishing guaranteed health care for the state is a mistake, Californians cannot wait

Lawmakers today are choosing to delay for another year action on AB 1400, the bill known as CalCare that would establish a guaranteed, single-payer health system for all California residents, using the excuse that they need to hash out more details and decide how to finance it.

California Nurses Association
April 21, 2021

Videos

Nurses Publish Scientific Brief Against New CDC Guidance

In a new scientific brief, NNU analyzes how all the most recent, respected research on Covid-19 supports a robust public health program that uses multiple measures of infection control

 

Our Legacy: Building Union Power at UChicago Medicine Ingalls

Learn how nurses in Harvey, Illinois successfully organized their facility and won their first union contract!

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