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.

Registered nurses across California condemn and reject the Trump administration’s recently announced plans to deploy ICE, border patrol agents, and the National Guard to the San Francisco Bay Area. President Trump so far has sought to misuse the National Guard and active-duty soldiers to attack major Democratic-led cities.

Registered nurses at six Tenet hospitals in California have announced they 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.

National Nurses United sent a letter yesterday to President Trump urging the United States to “demand a permanent ceasefire, withdrawal of all Russian forces, diplomatic negotiations that respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and just and lasting peace in the country.”

National Nurses United continues to stand in solidarity with our union brother, David Huerta, president of Service Employees and International Workers West, and call for the federal government to drop all charges against Huerta. Huerta was hurt, arrested, and detained in Los Angeles in June while exercising his First Amendment-protected rights to observe and document immigration enforcement activity.

Today, registered nurses from Maine Medical Center (MMC) in Portland and Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) in Bangor gathered in Augusta, Maine, to hold a press conference announcing that they are standing together for better conditions for their patients and fair contracts for nurses working in those facilities.