Local community members joined more than 100 nurses today in Bar Harbor, Maine to protest the closure of Mount Desert Island Hospital’s (MDIH) obstetrics department.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United applauds Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) on the reintroduction of the VA Employee Fairness Act, a federal bill that would ensure full collective bargaining rights for nurses and other clinicians in the Veterans Health Administration.

Registered nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., will hold a rally on Thursday, May 8, to demand HCA restore Mountain Area Health Education Center to their approved list of health providers.

Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans are moving forward with their one-day strike on May 1. Gearing up for their third strike as they continue to fight for a first union contract with LCMC Health, nurses say workplace violence is the key issue of this strike. Nurses have given advance notice to the hospital for their work stoppage.

Registered nurses with NNU are reaffirming their support for the Medicare for All Act, following the bill’s reintroduction in Congress today by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the U.S. Senate and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans are unsurprised to see that their employer, LCMC Health, has been named a 2025 Dirty Dozen employer by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, a national organization dedicated to strengthening workplace health and safety.

Registered nurses at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita, Calif., will hold a community rally on Saturday, April 26, to protest the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ ongoing concerns about safe staffing and safe working conditions.

Tonight, nurses from Houlton Regional Hospital’s (HRH) Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Postpartum (LDRP) unit were again joined by scores of community members for a candlelight vigil in a protest against the proposed closure of their hospital’s LDRP department.

Registered nurses at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, Calif., voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new four-year contract on Tuesday, April 22, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.

RNs from HCA hospitals in several states will unite outside the 2025 Frist Gala at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, April 26, to hand out flyers to gala attendees. RNs hope the flyers will start conversations with the black-tie gala’s guests about the Frist family’s role in making HCA Healthcare a sprawling for-profit empire notorious among nurses and patients for unsafe staffing levels and suboptimal care conditions.