Illinois press releases

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Nurses at UChicago Medicine Ingalls take action to save lives

Nurses at UChicago Medicine Ingalls celebrate first contract victory

Registered nurses at UChicago Medicine Ingalls in Harvey, Ill., a south suburb of Chicago, have voted overwhelmingly to ratify their historic first contract.

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

Nurses at Cook County holding a press conference

Cook County Budget Decision Creates Chaos at Provident Hospital

The Cook County Health budget for 2021 was approved unanimously by commissioners in late November, calling for cuts to emergency care services at Provident Hospital and closing community health clinics on Chicago’s South Side. As a result, the layoffs targeting nurses and physicians at Provident Hospital leave the emergency room dangerously understaffed for surrounded communities.

National Nurses United
December 9, 2020

Nurses outside Cook County Health offices

RNs demands Cook County Health halt all disciplinary threats against nurses who are advocating for safe patient care

Registered nurses are demanding that Cook County Health management immediately halt all disciplinary action levelled at nurses who are advocating for improvements in patient care.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
October 30, 2020

Nurses hold sign "Protect our ER"

RNs, community call emergency virtual town hall in defense of Black and Brown lives and reject Preckwinkle’s racist health budget proposal

Registered nurses, labor leaders, and community activists are calling on all concerned citizens to join the fight to defend public health for Black and Brown Chicagoans during an emergency virtual town hall meeting, Monday, Oct. 26

National Nurses United
October 23, 2020

Nurses at Cook County hold a press conference following the Cook County Health Board meeting presenting the proposed 2021 budget

Registered nurses, labor, and community groups to hold press conference in response to Cook County Board President Preckwinkle’s austerity budget

In the midst of a deadly pandemic, Cook County is preparing to release a budget which would close two community health clinics, South Shore Clinic and Woodlawn Clinic, and downgrade critically needed medical services, including the closure of the emergency room at Provident Hospital, the country’s first Black-owned hospital.

National Nurses United
October 14, 2020

Nurses holds signs "Racial Justice Now" and "Protect Nurses"

Registered nurses at Hines VA to rally over concerns of patient safety and systemic racism and discrimination

Registered nurses at Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital will hold a rally on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 to alert the public to patient safety concerns and the systemic racism and discrimination in nursing assignments.

National Nurses United
September 22, 2020

Nurse holds sign "Racial Justice Now"

President Preckwinkle’s Budget Proposal Closes Southside Clinics and Hospitals

With the recently announced closure of Mercy Hospital, cuts to services at Holy Cross and Jackson Park hospitals, and new threats to discontinue emergency services at Provident Hospital, labor and community organizations will hold a protest Friday Aug. 28 to decry Cook County’s austerity proposals as an affront to Black communities.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
August 27, 2020

Nurses rally for racial equality

National Nurses United on Trump’s Dispatch of Federal Troops: Send Aid Instead for Confronting Virus, Economic Crisis

National Nurses United joins with labor and community activists across Chicago to condemn the Trump Administration decision to dispatch militarized federal troops to Chicago, instead of the critical support Chicago, like other American cities, needs in the face of an exploding pandemic and worsening economic crisis.

National Nurses United
July 25, 2020

Nurse holds sign "Nurses say Black Lives Matter"

Community Members and Commissioner Brandon Johnson Call for a County Budget that Supports Black Lives

Community groups, Commissioner Brandon Johnson, and residents in Cook County will gather on Thursday, July 16 at 9:00 am outside the Richard J. Daley Center at 50 W. Washington for a press conference shortly before a special Cook County board meeting about the 2020 and 2021 budgets and the massive shortfall projected as a result of COVID-19. The groups and Commissioner Johnson will call on the county to divert money from the jail system and instead invest money in county supportive services in Black and Brown communities not administered by law enforcement.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
July 16, 2020

Nurses holding signs "Black Lives Matter"

Chicago Rally, March, and Car Caravan to Demand Racial Equity in Health Care

Hundreds of RNs and health care workers will join with Chicago's racial justice leaders this Saturday to demand that Mayor Lori Lightfoot defund the Chicago Police Department and reinvest those dollars into public services that will address glaring inequities in health care access and health care outcomes in communities of color.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
June 26, 2020