Covid-19 Press Releases

Arroyo Grande Community Hospital Nurses to Hold Candlelight Vigil to Demand Protections When Treating Patients With COVID-19 and Honor Infected Health Care Workers and Those Who Have Died From COVID-19

Arroyo Grande, CA – To honor health care workers who have been infected with and those who have died from COVID-19 and to protest the lack o

California Nurses Association

April 15, 2020

University of California, San Francisco Medical Center Nurses and University of California Unions to Hold a Press Conference to Demand Protections When Treating Patients With COVID-19

San Francisco, CA – To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and demand safe staffing for frontline health care workers during this COVID

California Nurses Association

April 15, 2020

Ronald Reagan University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center Nurses to Hold a Drive-a-Thon at Shift Change to Demand Protections When Treating Patients With COVID-19

To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), the decontamination of N-95 respirators with ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, and to demand safe staffing and full employment for fron

California Nurses Association

April 15, 2020

Dignity Health, Mercy Medical Center Merced Nurses to Hold Action to Demand Protections When Treating Patients With COVID-19 and Speak out as Nearby Hospital Nurses Test Positive for COVID-19

Merced, CA – To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare workers during this COVID-19 pandemic and expose the hospital’s faulty in

California Nurses Association

April 14, 2020

Providence Saint John’s Health Center Nurses Declare Victory in Winning Proper COVID PPE After Suspensions, Mass Protest

The registered nurses of Providence Saint John’s Health Center are declaring victory today after hospital management announced that health care workers throughout the Providence system will be issu

California Nurses Association

April 14, 2020

St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton Nurses to Hold Action at Shift Change to Demand Protections When Treating Patients During COVID-19 Pandemic

To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline health care workers during this COVID-19 pandemic, registered nurses at St.

California Nurses Association

April 14, 2020

Registered Nurses to Meet with Senators to Demand Protections for Frontline Health Care Workers

Nurses will meet virtually with U.S. senators starting tomorrow as part of their annual Lobby Days events about winning an emergency temporary OSHA infectious diseases standard

National Nurses United

April 14, 2020

National Nurses Organizing Committee Wins Workers Compensation Presumptive Eligibility for Nurses and Other Essential Workers Who Contract COVID-19

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU) initiated the idea of presumptive eligibility for COVID-19 workers in Illinois and began working with the Illinois A

National Nurses Organizing Committee

April 14, 2020

Central Coast Nurses to Hold Vigil at Shift Change to Demand Protections When Treating Patients With COVID-19

Central Coast, CA – To demand personal protective equipment (PPE) for nurses at hospitals across the region and insist on safe staffing for frontline healthcare

California Nurses Association

April 14, 2020

Palomar Medical Center Nurses and Caregivers to Hold Action After Public District Issues Lays Offs Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Poway, CA –  Palomar Health is a public health district with a principle to care for the community.

California Nurses Association

April 13, 2020