Registered nurses at Houlton Regional Hospital (HRH) in Houlton, Maine, will begin their two-day strike on Tuesday, Nov. 18, to protest management’s refusal to address their deep concerns about staffing and patient care.

Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans in Louisiana will hold a strike for three days starting Nov. 11 to protest the refusal of the hospital’s owner and operator, LCMC Health, to address concerns about nursing staff retention.

University of California (UC) registered nurses will walk the picket lines Monday, Nov. 17 and Tuesday, Nov. 18 in a sympathy strike with members of AFSCME 3299 and UPTE-CWA.

California union nurses celebrate the passage of Proposition 50, which helps protect democracy and levels the playing field in response to President Trump’s congressional power grab. Nurses and other volunteers with the union knocked on more than 17,000 doors and made more than 394,500 calls, urging voters to vote Yes on Prop 50.

Union nurses with California Nurses Association along with members of the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council will be holding a rally and canvass on Sunday, Nov. 2, to call on voters to vote Yes on Proposition 50, the redistricting measure.

Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans in Louisiana will hold a strike for three days from November 11 to 13 to protest LCMC Health’s refusal to address nurses’ concerns about staff retention in on-going first contract bargaining.

Nurses are outraged that the Trump administration has chosen to cut off SNAP food benefits that keep 42 million patients from starvation in an attempt to pressure Democrats into caving on a spending bill to end the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history without securing health care protections for working people.

California registered nurses at six Tenet hospitals will hold one-day strikes on Thursday, Oct. 30, to protest the multibillion-dollar hospital corporation’s refusal to address nurses’ deep concerns about patient care and safe staffing. The 3,100 Tenet nurses have been in contract negotiations since February, with little to no movement on key issues.

California nurses condemn the on-going immigration enforcement presence at Dignity Health’s California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., and warn that the sustained presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers threatens patients, health care workers, and the entire community that deserves to seek care at their hospital.