Seton Medical Center (Seton) nurses in Daly City, Calif. will hold an informational picket on Dec. 12, 2023 to protest their employer’s drastic health care cuts, among other actions, that could exacerbate the hospital’s persistent recruitment and retention issues.

Registered nurses at Watsonville Community Hospital voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract. The contract – which includes protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention – is the first collective bargaining agreement since WCH became a public-sector employer following the 2021 bankruptcy fight.

Registered nurses with Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, Calif. will hold a picket on Tuesday, Dec. 12 to demand Tenet address the chronic issues that jeopardize patient care in the neonatal unit and intensive care units.

Registered nurses at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, voted by an overwhelming majority today to authorize their nurse bargaining team to call a strike, if management fails to resolve key issues RNs have been raising in contract negotiations, including outsourcing of nurse jobs.

Nurses at three Ascension-owned facilities in Austin, Texas, and Wichita, Kan., condemn Ascension management for proceeding with a three-day lockout following the RNs’ one-day strike at their hospitals on Dec. 6.

Registered nurses at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis and St. Joseph’s in Wichita, Kansas, will host a gift drive for toys and school supplies on Friday, December 8, in response to Ascension management canceling the Christmas concert scheduled to take place on that day at the Christi Child Development Center.

RNs at Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin in Texas reported today that Day Supervisor, Leighan Graham and Perinatal Director, Rachelle LaBonte, would not allow a nurse to work her shift in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) this morning in anticipation of the nurses’ one-day strike on Dec. 6.

Registered nurses in Texas and Kansas at three Ascension hospitals are moving forward with historic one-day strikes on Wednesday, December 6, to protest unsafe conditions management has failed to remedy, announced National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United.