In a historic move, registered nurses at St. Mary’s Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tucson, Ariz. voted overwhelmingly to approve their first contract with the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United.

With record coronavirus cases rocking Florida, Registered Nurses from St. Petersburg General Hospital, Largo Medical Center, and Northside Hospital will come together Wednesday to alert the public to an explosion of unsafe conditions at their hospitals.

With coronavirus cases establishing record infections, and hospitalization cases and deaths exploding across the U.S., National Nurses United today urged all school districts and policy makers in states where the pandemic shows no signs of slowing to postpone returning to an in-person learning model.

Before summer’s end, an estimated 27 million people will lose their health insurance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the 29 million who were uninsured before this pandemic even began. In response to the dire need for systemic reform, National Nurses United will be hosting a Summer Strategy Call for thousands of activists across the country.

In a vote by its national Executive Council, National Nurses United (NNU) has endorsed Vice President Joe Biden for President.

Registered nurses at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose will hold a social distancing action Monday to alert the public to what they say is an alarming trend of unsafe staffing throughout the hospital that, coupled with the ongoing pandemic surge, is putting patients at risk.

A coalition of labor unions, labor allies, grassroots organizations, and Alameda County residents have come together to form the Alameda County Coalition for Healthy Communities (ACCHC) to demand health care justice in Alameda County.

Registered nurses at HCA’s Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC are marching on the hospital’s chief executive this morning to protest what they see as an alarming rise in unsafe staffing at the very moment the hospital is swamped with COVID-19 patients.

Registered nurses at the Cincinnati VA will hold a noon rally July 9 to protest the lack of personal protective equipment at the facility which puts veterans, patients, and the public at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.