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As the House Ways and Means Committee prepares to hold an influential hearing Wednesday on HR 1384, the Medicare for All bill authored by Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell, with 112 House cosponsors, news reports remind us every day of why the bill is so necessary.

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Bonnie Castillo, RN, Executive Director of National Nurses United

Nationwide

Nurses at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles Ratify Three-Year Contract with Protections to Improve Patient Safety

Registered nurses at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, Calif. overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year contract, announced California Nurses Association (CNA) today.

“I am so proud of the nurses who stood strong and were able to reach a contract that held the line against management’s proposed takeaways,” said Sandra Rodriguez, RN, and member of the union’s negotiating team. “This contract respects and maintains RNs professional and economic standards and strengthens our ability to effectively advocate for our patients.”

California Nurses Association

Jun 10, 2019

California

House Committee Votes to Advance Bill to Protect Health Care, Social Service Workers from Epidemic of Workplace Violence

A federal bill to protect health care and social service workers from extremely high rates of workplace violence—HR 1309, the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act

National Nurses United

Jun 11, 2019

Nationwide

Nurses Charge University of Chicago Medical Center is Jeopardizing Patient Safety

Registered nurses are filing complaints with the Illinois Department of Public Health and OSHAagainst the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) charging the hospital is failing to complywith federal and state laws and thereby jeopardizing patient safety, announced National Nurses United Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU).

National Nurses Organizing Committee

Jun 10, 2019

Illinois

Bill to Protect Health Care, Social Service Workers from Epidemic of Workplace Violence Poised For Historic House Committee Vote

Washington, D.C.—On Tuesday, June 11, the House Committee on Education and Labor will be marking up and voting on HR 1309, the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, by Rep. Joe Courtney—a historic first for this legislation.

National Nurses United

Jun 7, 2019

Washington

Johns Hopkins Reaches Settlement with Registered Nurses Affirming Nurses’ Guaranteed Right to Unionize

Nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore are hailing as a critical victory a settlement reached with the hospital which reaffirms the nurses’ guaranteed legal right to unionize, said the National Nurses Organizing Committee.

National Nurses United / NNOC

Jun 5, 2019

Maryland

Nurses at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles Reach Tentative Agreement on Three-Year Contract

Registered nurses at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, Calif. have reached a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining contract with the hospital, announced California Nurses Association (CNA) today.

NNU

National Nurses United

Jun 3, 2019

California

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

May 31, 2019

RNs to Provide Medical Care to Asylum Seekers As Feds Reveal More Child Deaths in U.S. Custody

Registered nurses with the Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN) will return to Tucson, Ariz. this weekend to provide critical medical aid to asylum seekers. RNRN, a disaster-relief project of the California Nurses Foundation and National Nurses United.

RNRN

RN Response Network

May 31, 2019

Arizona

Is Medicare for All ‘disruptive’? Not more than medical bankruptcy or death

David Wichmann, CEO of the corporate giant UnitedHealth Group, recently cautioned against the “wholesale disruption” of American health care, should Medicare for All be enacted. There’s something surreal about a man who earned $18.1 million in 2018 warning that changing the deadly, unfixable health care system that made him rich—would be too jarring.

Bonnie Castillo, RN, Executive Director of National Nurses United