Health care workers at Methodist Hospital of Southern California, in Arcadia, Calif. will hold a car caravan on Saturday, May 8 to highlight their patient safety concerns, including short staffing and the demand to end discriminatory pay practices.

National Nurses United applauds the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs passage of the VA Employee Fairness Act. The legislation would allow nurses to advocate for the highest quality of patient care without threat of retaliation.

Hundreds of registered nurses from across the country will meet virtually with federal lawmakers on May 4-10 to urge them to step up measures to improve protections for hospital patients and nurses and other health care workers across the country.

By a huge 57 percent margin, registered nurses at Maine’s largest hospital, Maine Medical Center (MMC) are joining the Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses United.

USC registered nurses at Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center will hold a car caravan on Saturday, May 1 to protest years of understaffing and the lack of an adequate staffing plan by administration.

National Nurses United today welcomed the Biden Administration’s decision to take an important step toward issuing an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to ensure safe workplaces for nurses, and other health care and essential workers.

Registered nurses at the University of California Los Angeles, Santa Monica campus, will hold a socially distant protest on Monday, Apr. 26 to call on management to immediately address the unsafe environment and working conditions that put patient safety at risk.

Registered nurses at Community First Medical Center in Chicago will hold a virtual press conference and an in-person picket on Friday, April 23 to alert the public to a variety of alarming state and federal violations that nurses say jeopardize patient safety.

Lawmakers today are choosing to delay for another year action on AB 1400, the bill known as CalCare that would establish a guaranteed, single-payer health system for all California residents, using the excuse that they need to hash out more details and decide how to finance it.

National Nurses United today welcomed the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the brutal murder of George Floyd last May, adding that more work is needed on racial justice, including in policing practices.