NNOC/NNU-represented registered nurses will hold a car procession honk-a-thon on Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 8:15 a.m., to urge their hospitals to provide optimal staffing and alert the community of the current public health crisis in Arizona.

National Nurses United today endorsed the call by incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and many others calling for President Trump to be immediately removed from office through invocation of the 25th Amendment due to his role in leading the failed coup attempt that culminated in the assault by armed insurrectionists on the U.S. Capitol yesterday.

Registered nurses at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital will hold a car caravan on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021 to protest their employer’s use of a state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards. Nurses are urging Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital to staff for safe patient care, and not use the pandemic as an excuse to put patients at serious risk.

Underscoring the long-term need for greater public control of our health care infrastructure, the corporate owner of Olympia Medical Center, a 200+ bed hospital in the heart of Los Angeles, just announced it will be completely shuttering the facility in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic -- right as infections and hospitalizations surge to their worst levels nationwide, statewide, and locally, and as Los Angeles reports zero percent ICU capacity. The hospital intends to close despite also having received more than $27.6 million in combined Covid stimulus money and advance Medicare payments.

National Nurses United joined with people across the United States to express shock and horror at the right-wing assault on the U.S. Capitol today and called for those promoting it to be held accountable.

Registered nurses at Methodist Hospital of Southern California will hold a socially distant, silent event on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2020 to protest its use of a state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards.

Registered nurses at Sutter California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) will hold a press conference at noon on Wednesday Dec. 30 to protest the hospital’s use of a state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards.

Registered nurses and caregivers will hold a car caravan Tuesday, Dec. 29 declaring their opposition to the healthcare district’s application for a blanket waiver of state-mandated safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.

Last week on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, registered nurses at Rideout Memorial Hospital, overwhelming ratified a new three-year contract which nurses say will provide important patients care improvements as well as gains in wages and benefits to help with recruitment and retention of nurses.