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Veterans Health Administration unions decry management’s failure to involve them in COVID-19 preparations, call to work together

We health care workers in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) system, deeply dismayed by the lack of preparations, planning, and communications so far in response to COVID-19, are calling on VHA management to work with us to ensure the nation’s VA health facilities can safely handle COVID-19. Together, our unions represent nearly 350,000 employees working within the VHA system.

Veterans Affairs

NNU, AFGE, NAGE, NFFE, SEIU 200 United

Mar 14, 2020

National Nurses United statement on today’s Trump administration press conference

Nurses rally for increased protections from COVID-19

The following statement by National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, RN and Presidents Jean Ross, RN, Zenei Cortez, RN and Deborah Burger, RN is in response to the Trump administration’s COVID-19 press conference this afternoon:

National Nurses United

Mar 13, 2020

Nationwide

Recording of National Nurses United COVID-19 Update Call Available on Website

Thousands of nurses joined the COVID-19 update call earlier today. Due to the overwhelming response, it crashed the system. A recording of the National Nurses United (NNU) COVID-19 update call is now available on the union’s Media Resources section.

Mar 12, 2020

As CDC further weakens COVID-19 guidance, nurses outraged by failed federal, state, local, employer efforts stage day of action Wednesday to demand protections for nurses, patients, public

Registered nurses are outraged to learn that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Tuesday further weakened its guidance on measures to contain COVID-19. These changes include, among other things, rolling back personal protective equipment (PPE) standards from N-95 respirators to allow simple surgical masks; not requiring suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients to be placed in negative pressure isolation rooms at all times; and weakening protections for health care workers collecting diagnostic respiratory specimens.

National Nurses United

Mar 10, 2020

California

Illinois

Georgia

California Nurses Know Your Rights: Protections at Work for COVID-19

COVID-19 cases have risen in California over the past few weeks and now community transmission is occurring.

Read more about California Nurses Know Your Rights: Protections at Work for COVID-19

Global Nurses United Press Clips

See a collection of links to news stories about nurses in other nations, and how they are advocating for their patients.

Global Nurses United

March 8, 2020

International

Survey of Nation’s Frontline Registered Nurses Shows Hospitals Unprepared For COVID-19

A nationwide survey National Nurses United (NNU) conducted of registered nurses, the country’s frontline health care staff, reveals that the vast majority of United States hospitals and health care facilities are unprepared to handle and contain cases of COVID-19.

National Nurses United/California Nurses Association

Mar 5, 2020

California

Technicians at Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital vote overwhelmingly to authorize a strike

Nurses from Northern Light Hospital in Maine hold signs for patient safety

The technicians at Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital (NLMC) have authorized their union bargaining team to call a strike when necessary, according to the Maine State Nurses Association, the union that represents both these employees and the registered nurses at the hospital.

Maine State Nurses Association / NNOC

Mar 4, 2020

Maine

Nurses: Threatened Daly City hospital closure poses significant threat to public amidst growing COVID-19 crisis

Registered nurses, joined by San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa, will hold an emergency press conference Friday morning to call for urgent action to stop the threatened immediate closure of Seton Medical Center in San Mateo – an action nurses warn could endanger countless residents in the midst of the growing COVID-19 pandemic.

Daly City Council Member Pamela DiGiovanni and Colma Mayor John Goodwin, are also expected to join the press conference.

California Nurses Association

Mar 5, 2020

California

Press conference to release results of national nurse survey about COVID-19 preparedness

March 4, 2020 -- A nationwide survey National Nurses United (NNU) conducted of registered nurses, the country’s frontline health care staff, reveals that the vast majority of United States hospitals and health care facilities are unprepared to handle and contain cases of COVID-19, announced NNU, the country’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses.

National Nurses United

Mar 4, 2020