In a decisive vote Friday night, registered nurses at Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) ratified the “tentative agreement” that they reached with the hospital just one week ago. The contract agreement is effective immediately.

Bonnie Castillo, RN and Jean Ross, RN—Executive Director and Co-President respectively of National Nurses United (NNU), will join forces with British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at The World Transformed (TWT), a festival in Liverpool, England Sept. 22-25, NNU announced today.

At a series of upcoming impact hearings held by the California State Attorney General’s office, registered nurses with the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) will demand to know how the proposed merger between Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) will impact patient health and safety, healthcare access, and maintenance of charity care standards.

At a series of upcoming impact hearings held by the California State Attorney General’s office, registered nurses with the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) will demand to know how the proposed merger between Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) will impact patient health and safety, healthcare access, and maintenance of charity care standards.

Registered nurses will hold informational pickets to protest eroding patient care conditions at two hospitals owned by Providence St. Joseph Health system, the Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro and St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica.

At a series of upcoming impact hearings held by the California State Attorney General’s office, registered nurses with the CNA/NNU will demand to know how the proposed merger between Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) will impact patient health and safety, healthcare access, and maintenance of charity care standards.

Registered nurses at St. Joseph Hospital, Eureka will hold an informational picket outside the hospital, Tuesday Sept. 25, to protest unsafe staffing at the hospital and demand immediate reinstatement of vital health care staff.

On the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria striking Puerto Rico, National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest union of registered nurses, today condemned any doubt about reports that the death toll from the hurricane and its aftermath reaches into the thousands—following President Trump’s recent comment that thousands of people in Puerto Rico “did not die.”

At a series of upcoming impact hearings held by the California State Attorney General’s office, registered nurses with the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) will demand to know how the proposed merger between Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) will impact patient health and safety, healthcare access, and maintenance of charity care standards.

Registered nurses at Stanford Health Care’s ValleyCare Medical Center in Livermore/Dublin, CA voted overwhelmingly Wednesday night to join the state’s largest RN union, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU). The nurses at the Livermore/Dublin campuses will join the same bargaining unit as the nurses at the Pleasanton campus.

The National Labor Relations Board, which oversees private sector labor relations, conducted the secret ballot vote.

ValleyCare RNs celebrated Wednesday’s vote to join CNA.