Registered nurses with Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago are holding a rally Wednesday, May 27 at the hospital to protest their employer Prime Healthcare’s flagrantly illegal crackdown on their efforts to unionize, which include the recent firing of four nurse leaders.

Registered nurses at Houlton Regional Hospital in Houlton, Maine, will begin a four-day strike on Tuesday, May 26, to protest management’s refusal to address their deep concerns about emergency department staffing and its impact on patient care.

With a new Ebola outbreak announced in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on May 15 and declared an international public health emergency just two days later, on top of the recent Andes hantavirus cruise ship outbreak, NNU is sounding the alarm on the Trump administration’s bungled response to emerging infectious diseases.

Registered nurses with the National Nurses Organizing Committee / National Nurses United are hosting a community town hall with Graham Platner on Wednesday, May 20, in Portland, Maine, to discuss the current state of health care and what it would take to truly transform our system.

Nurses at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, say they voted to join the union because it is critical that nurses have a say in making decisions about staffing and working conditions, which leads to improved patient care.

Hundreds of the state’s union registered nurses represented by California Nurses Association will converge in Sacramento on Tuesday, May 19 to protest hospital industry greed and lobby lawmakers in support of bills to promote and protect the safety of their patients and health care workers.

With only hours to spare, union nurses represented by California Nurses Association successfully forced Kaiser to back off from firing a DACA nurse colleague because the federal government has been extraordinarily slow to renew her work authorization.

As the legal battle continues over access to Mifepristone, commonly known as the abortion pill, National Nurses United demands an end to what nurses say is “an all-out class war against health care for women.” On May 4, the Supreme Court restored nationwide access to mifepristone by mail, pausing until at least May 11 a lower-court ruling in Louisiana v. FDA that had restricted it.

Registered nurses at Bay Area Kaiser facilities will hold a rally at Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center on Monday, May 11, to protest Kaiser’s plan to terminate nurses who are DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, recipients waiting for the federal government to renew their work documents.