This Nurses Week, all the pizza in the world won’t make up for our employers’ lack of respect
Each year, there’s a special week to honor America’s most trusted profession: nurses! We become nurses because it’s our calling, and we do it for our patients, not for accolades. But we also know that the oath we take to help and heal all people — is constantly hindered by employers who cut corners to boost profits. And that makes management’s “We appreciate you!” box of Krispy Kremes during Nurses Week fall a bit flat.
Bonnie Castillo , Executive Director of National Nurses United
Registered Nurses Tell California Lawmakers: Honor National Nurses Week by Improving Patient Safety Protections
Hundreds of registered nurses with the California Nurses Association (CNA) are gathering in Sacramento, Tuesday, May 7, 2019 to meet with state legislators to urge the passage of a number of signature bills that protect the health and well-being of registered nurses, their patients and the public.
California Nurses Association
May 6, 2019
First Senate Hearing on Nevada Workplace Violence Prevention Bill
Health care workers with National Nurses Organizing Committee-Nevada/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1107 will appear before Nevada senators on Friday, May 3, 2019 to call for the passage of the state’s first workplace violence prevention bill, A.B. 348.
National Nurses Organizing Committee
May 2, 2019
Nurses Call Congressional Budget Office Report “an Important Step Forward in the Process of Achieving Medicare for All”
“Coming off of yesterday’s historic House Rules Committee hearing on Medicare for All, and a newly announced, impending hearing in the Ways and Means Committee, nurses are excited to see Congress further taking this life-saving legislation seriously by releasing a CBO report on Medicare for All.
National Nurses United
May 1, 2019
A Big Hearing For ‘Medicare-For-All’ — In A Small Room
The first congressional hearing on a “Medicare-for-all” bill in at least a decade took place Tuesday, but without the usual phalanx of T-shirted supporters — or even the presidential candidates — who have been pushing the bill.
California Healthline
Largest U.S. Nurses’ Union Rallies Outside of PhRMA Headquarters in Support of Medicare for All
Today, National Nurses United (NNU), along with a broader coalition of pro-Medicare for All organizations rallied outside of the national headquarters of PhRMA in support of Medicare for All.
National Nurses United
Apr 30, 2019
'Historic Step' Toward Healthcare Justice as First-Ever Medicare for All Hearing Set for Next Week
In what grassroots activists celebrated as a "historic step" toward a just healthcare system that places the needs of patients over corporate profits, the House Rules Committee announced late Tuesday that it will hold the first-ever congressional hearing on Medicare for All next week.
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams writer
May Day March, Rally and Action - Workers Demand University of Chicago End Unfair Labor Practices and Stop Union Busting Efforts
Registered nurses will join with other members of the University of Chicago Labor Council, and South Side community members for a May Day march to protest the university’s unfair labor practices, and union busting efforts, announced National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU) today.
National Nurses United
Apr 29, 2019