CNA Press Releases

Verdugo Hills registered nurses ratify new three-year contract with patient safety wins

RNs at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, Calif., have overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract with the University of Southern California (USC).

California Nurses Association

March 4, 2022

Alvarado Hospital nurses in San Diego to hold informational picket to demand safe patient staffing and safe working conditions

Nurses will hold an informational picket to protest the hospital administration’s refusal to address RNs’ ongoing patient safety concerns and to demand safe patient staffing.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

February 28, 2022

USC Verdugo Hills nurses to hold informational picket and car caravan to demand safe patient staffing

RNs at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, Calif. will hold an info picket and car caravan on Wed. Feb. 23 to protest the hospital administration’s refusal to address RNs’ ongoing patient safety concerns and to demand safe patient staffing.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

February 22, 2022

OC nurses to hold informational picket for patient safety at West Anaheim Medical Center

Nurses say that the hospital should cancel elective surgeries because those beds and nurses are needed for other emergent patients. RNs in all medical departments are short-staffed, putting patient safety in jeopardy.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

February 11, 2022

Alhambra Hospital RNs ratify a new contract with improvements for patient safety and nurse retention

The collective bargaining agreement was the result of an almost six-month fight, which included an informational picket for patient safety and multiple other actions.

California Nurses Association

February 10, 2022

Nurses celebrate step forward for gender equity in workers compensation as CA Senate passes SB 213

Bill will ensure nurses and other health care workers are automatically presumed to be eligible for workers’ comp if they experience some common work-related conditions.

California Nurses Association

February 4, 2022

Nurses at Tri-City Medical Center Vote Overwhelmingly to Authorize a One-day Strike

Nurses voted by an overwhelming majority to authorize their nurse negotiators to call a one-day strike if the issues RNs raised in ongoing contract negotiations to protect their patients and improve patient care remain unresolved

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

February 2, 2022

Nurses vow to continue fight for CalCare because ‘we never give up on our patients’

After nurses and our allies learned that the California State Assembly failed to hold a vote on AB 1400, the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act, a bill that would establish a single-payer health system for the state, we are disappointed—but not defeated.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

February 1, 2022

Nurses condemn California Assembly for ‘giving up’ on bill to guarantee health care in the state

This failure by elected representatives to put patients above profits at a time when it’s more clear than ever before that health care must be a right.

California Nurses Association

January 31, 2022

California Nurses Association celebrates major milestone toward winning guaranteed health care in the state

California Nurses Association celebrated momentous progress toward guaranteed health care in California as AB 1400 passed out of the appropriations committee today and moves to the full Assembly for a vote.

California Nurses Association

January 20, 2022