Registered nurses at Kaiser Permanante’s flagship Los Angeles Medical Center begin a seven-day strike this morning with a focus on improving staffing to protect patient care and achieving economic gains to retain experienced RNs and boost recruitment of new nurses.

On the eve of a one-week strike by 1,200 Los Angeles registered nurses, Sen. Bernie Sanders Sunday sent a letter to the chief executive of a major Los Angeles hospital backing the nurses and calling on hospital management to “negotiate in good faith and agree to a fair contract.”

Nurses from Ohio and other states have been canvassing Cleveland all weekend for Bernie Sanders, and will be doing a final get out the vote push on Monday, National Nurses United announced today.

Nurses aboard National Nurses United’s #BernieBus have been connecting with voters in cities throughout Ohio all week and will be heading to Dayton and Cincinnati today, Monday March 14, for a final get out the vote push ahead of Tuesday’s primary.

It’s official. Registered nurses at some of the biggest private hospitals in San Francisco and the East Bay have approved new collective bargaining agreements with Sutter Health.

Registered nurses at Kaiser Permanante’s flagship Los Angeles Medical Center will hold a seven-day strike beginning Tuesday, March 15.

National Nurses United, the largest nurses’ organization in the United States and in Florida, announced today its endorsement of Tim Canova who is running to become the next Member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing the 23rd District of Florida.