NNOC press releases

Tucson nurses plan protests over unsafe staffing and working conditions amid contract negotiations

Registered nurses at Carondelet St. Mary’s and St. Joseph’s hospitals will hold informational pickets to demand that Carondelet management address serious staffing, patient care, and nurse recruitment and retention issues. The nurses are deeply concerned about eroding patient care conditions and the lack of experienced staff to adequately care for patients safely.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

September 22, 2026

College Station nurses call out chronic understaffing in NICU

Registered nurses at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital in College Station, Texas, will hold a rally on Tuesday, Sept. 22. Nurses plan to commemorate neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) awareness month and celebrate the dedication that NICU nurses demonstrate to the babies in their care, as well as raise concerns about issues in the St. Joseph NICU.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

September 21, 2026

Ascension St. Agnes nurses ratify first-ever union contract

Registered nurses at Ascension St. Agnes in Baltimore, Md., voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a three-year contract on Saturday, winning their first-ever collective bargaining agreement in a watershed moment for nurses across Baltimore.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

September 19, 2026

Maine nurses condemn Prime Healthcare’s illegal firings and suspensions at Central Maine Medical Center

Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate for National Nurses United (NNU), released the following statement today in response to illegal discipline against nurses by Prime Healthcare.

Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee

September 18, 2026

MedStar Franklin nurses to hold rally for patient safety

Registered nurses at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, in Baltimore, Md. will hold a rally on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026 to highlight unaddressed patient safety concerns — including short-staffing and lack of equipment and supplies — that have driven them to unionize.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

September 17, 2026

Nurses put Maine hospitals on ‘RED ALERT’ status

Registered nurses will hold a rally and community event on Saturday, Sept. 19 in Bangor, Maine to highlight the patient care impacts of federal health care cuts on Maine hospitals. Nurses will also use the event to discuss their Vision for a Healthy Society, a set of broad political demands that require taking back health care, democracy, and society from billionaire and corporate control.

September 17, 2026

NLRB blocks union election due to Prime Healthcare’s illegal interference with nurses’ right to unionize

The National Labor Relations Board’s Region 13 Office in Chicago moved to block the originally scheduled Sept. 17 NLRB union election at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill., in light of credible allegations that a free and fair election is not possible at this time due to Prime Healthcare’s substantial and flagrant violations of the National Labor Relations Act.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

September 14, 2026

Central Maine Medical Center nurses to hold picket in solidarity with striking nurses in Illinois

Registered nurses at Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC) in Lewiston, Maine will hold an informational picket on Tuesday, September 15 in solidarity with nurse colleagues within the Prime Healthcare hospital system who are on strike on the same day at Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois to protest the suspension of six nurses at Olympia Fields.

Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee

September 13, 2026

Nurses to sympathy strike, picket on September 15 at five Prime Healthcare hospitals in four states

Registered nurses at three Prime Healthcare hospitals in Nevada and California, as well as nurses and health care workers at an additional hospital in California, will hold a sympathy strike for one day on September 15 in solidarity with nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital in Illinois who are striking on the same day to protest the suspension of six nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee

September 13, 2026

Nurses demand immediate reinstatement of colleagues unlawfully suspended by Prime Healthcare for speaking up for patients at two of its Chicago hospitals

In gross violation of national labor laws, Prime Healthcare over the past week has retaliated against registered nurses for speaking up and fighting for their patients at two of its Chicago-area hospitals, suspending six nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Ill. and one nurse at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

September 2, 2026