Global Nurses United Press Clips
Unions Demand Decisive Action From Cook County Criminal Justice System to Protect Workers Against Threat of Covid-19
SEIU Local 73 and National Nurses United demand Cook County drastically reduce jail population
SEIU Local 73 and the National Nurses United (NNU) represent nearly 300 workers in the Cook County Department of Corrections and more than 300 professionals, nurses and other frontline healthcare workers in Cermak Health Services, who provide health care to Cook County detainees. Earlier this week, a Cook County Correctional Officer tested positive for COVID-19. This week, it was also announced that it spread to at least 17 unknown cases among detainees.
National Nurses United is Stepping Up Pressure On Hospital Employers Across the United States to Provide Safer Facilities
National Nurses United is stepping up pressure on hospital employers across the U.S. to provide safer facilities for health care workers and patients as confirmed coronavirus cases, and COVID-19 deaths, continue to skyrocket.
In recent days NNU has filed over 125 complaints with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) offices in 16 states charging individual hospitals with failing to provide safe workplaces, as required by law.
UCSD Hillcrest Medical Center Nurses to Hold Action at Noon to Demand Protections When Treating Patients With COVID-19
National Nurses United condemns congressional inaction on protecting nurses, other health care workers from COVID-19
Statement by National Nurses United Nurses About Making Homemade Facemasks for Health Care Workers
National Nurses United RN members are touched and extremely grateful for the many people graciously offering their time and effort to produce homemade masks from cloth and similar materials at a time when our members are severely short of proper personal protective equipment (PPE).
It is true that if nurses are infected and become sick, all of us are at greater risk. If we are sick, who will take care of patients in the face of this terrifying pandemic?
Union Workers in the Building Trades Donate Masks to Nurses Amidst Government Inaction
Today, North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), an alliance of fourteen affiliated unions collectively representing over 3 million skilled craft professionals in the building and construction industry, announced a partnership with National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of registered nurses in America, to donate N-95 respirator masks and other protective equipment to nurses.
Nurses Send Petition to Congress Demanding Immediate Protections During COVID-19 Outbreak
NABTU Mask Donations
Protect Nurses: Building Solidarity For All Our Health
