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Large group of smiling nurses outside Desert Regional Medical Center

Desert Regional RNs demand District Board use all available means to pressure Tenet to release financial information

Registered nurses at Desert Regional Medical Center are calling on the Desert Healthcare District Board to use all available means to pressure Tenet Healthcare to release financial information that would allow the board to solicit offers from other potential operators who could take over management of the hospital.

California Nurses Association
April 29, 2024

• CNA

Washington Hospital nurses hold signs in support of a fair contract

Washington Hospital nurses reach tentative agreement for a historic new contract, planned strike is averted

Registered nurses at Washington Hospital in Fremont, California, reached a tentative agreement with management at Washington Hospital Healthcare System over the weekend, averting a one-day strike that was set to begin on Wednesday, May 1, announced California Nurses Association/National Nurses United today. The new agreement addresses nurses’ key concerns around retention and recruitment of RNs within the healthcare district, improving patient care and working conditions for nurses at Washington Hospital.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
April 29, 2024

• CNA, • NNU

Large group of Machias nurses outside holding banner "Safe Staffing Saves Lives"

Machias nurses and technicians to hold two-day strike

Registered nurses and technicians at Down East Community Hospital in Machias, Maine, will begin their two-day strike on Tuesday, April 30, to protest the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ and techs’ concerns about recruitment, retention, and safe staffing.

Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
April 28, 2024

• MSNA, • NNOC

Large group of nurses outside Frist Art Museum holding banner "Patients Needs over HCA/Frist Greed"

Nurses protest HCA crushing hospitals at Frist Family Gala in Nashville

Nearly 100 union nurses from across the U.S. protested outside the April 27 Frist Family Gala at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tenn., a black-tie event named for the family that founded and is a major shareholder in HCA, the largest for-profit health care company in the country.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
April 27, 2024

• NNOC, • NNU

National Nurses United logo

Nation’s largest nurses union stands in solidarity with campus protesters facing crackdowns and arrests

Nurses represented by National Nurses United stand in solidarity with student and faculty protesters at campuses across the United States facing a violent crackdown for speaking out against the mass killings and public health catastrophe in Gaza.

National Nurses United
April 26, 2024

• NNU

Nurses on picket line, one holds sign "Ascension, we can see your greedy side"

Ascension nurses call for urgent changes after Catholic chain named in “Dirty Dozen” employer list

Ascension nurses continue to call for urgent changes at the sprawling hospital chain after the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health named Ascension to its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of employers who put workers and communities at risk due to unsafe practices.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
April 25, 2024

• NNOC, • NNU

Large group of people standing in front of CalCare banner, holding CalCare signs

California nurses, labor groups, and activists celebrate California Assembly Health Committee advancing CalCare bill from committee

Members of the California Nurses Association, other labor unions, advocacy groups, elected officials and activists praised the Assembly Health Committee’s vote to move forward the single-payer health care bill.

California Nurses Association
April 24, 2024

• CNA

Nurse signing paperwork on clipboard

NNU applauds FTC’s new rule limiting the use of training repayment and other stay-or-pay contracts

National Nurses United applauds the FTC’s ruling that limits the use of certain stay-or-pay contracts, including training repayment agreement provisions that have burdened many nurses.

National Nurses United
April 24, 2024

• NNU

Four nurses in red scrubs in rural area of Guatemala

Nurse volunteers deployed to Guatemala for free health clinics

A team of volunteer registered nurses returned today from Guatemala, where they provided free medical care in rural, severely underserved areas as part of Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a disaster-relief project of National Nurses United and the California Nurses Foundation.

RN Response Network
April 24, 2024

• RNRN, • NNU

Congresswoman Summer Lee

Union nurses endorse Congresswoman Summer Lee for re-election

National Nurses United today announced they have endorsed Congresswoman Summer Lee for re-election in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, where she has already delivered good-paying jobs, a cleaner environment, and leadership on reproductive health care.

National Nurses United
April 22, 2024

• NNU