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Press releases

St. Agnes nurses holding signs "Our Union. Our Rights. Our Patients." "Safe Staffing saves lives" "Patients first in the hospital"

Baltimore nurses to hold historic strike for patient safety

RNs at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md., will hold a one-day strike from July 24, 7 a.m. to July 25, 6:59 a.m., to protest Ascension management’s refusal to address their urgent concerns about patient care, safe staffing, and high staff turnover in contract negotiations. This notice follows a nearly unanimous strike authorization vote on May 16.

National Nurses Organizing Committee//National Nurses United
July 22, 2025

Nurses in front of St Agnes with signs: "RN Safe Staffing saves lives" and "Patients 1st in the hospital" and a "Natioanal Nurses United" banner

Baltimore nurses announce historic one-day strike for patient safety

RNs at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md., gave notice to their employer today that they will hold a strike for one day on July 24 to protest the Ascension management’s refusal to address RNs’ deep concerns about patient care, safe staffing, and high staff turnover during contract negotiations.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
July 14, 2025

Nurses outside holding banner "Ascension RNs, United for our Patients and our Profession"

Baltimore nurses to rally for patient safety, protest chronic short-staffing at Saint Agnes Hospital

Registered nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, in Baltimore, Md., will hold a rally on Friday, March 14, to highlight their patient safety concerns, including hospital-wide short-staffing, unnecessarily long wait times in the ER, and lack of pediatrics-trained nurses.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
March 13, 2025

Four nurses outside holding signs "Safe Staffing Saves Lives"

Nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes vote to keep their union in decisive recertification election

Registered nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md., decisively voted to maintain their representation from National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United. Nurses recertified NNOC/NNU as their union representation, winning by a larger margin than their original union election in November 2023.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
February 3, 2025

Nurses holding signs "Staff Up for Safe Patient Care"

Ascension nurses call on U.S. bishops to hold Catholic hospital chain accountable to church directives

Registered nurses from Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md. will rally in front of a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting on Nov. 12. They will highlight how Ascension has failed to follow USCCB directives to Catholic health care organizations to both serve and advocate for patients “at the margins of society” and “treat its employees respectfully and justly.”

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
November 7, 2024

Articles

Group of nurses inside hospital smiling

Hard Reboot

When a cyberattack took down their computer systems, Ascension nurses relied on their most valuable infrastructure: themselves.

By Lucy Diavolo

December 20, 2024

Joyous Saint Agnes nurses with fists raised

Baltimore RNs win historic vote to unionize

Registered nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md. voted in early November to join National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United. This victory marks the first time in Baltimore history that registered nurses have unionized a hospital.

January 12, 2024