Registered nurses at Hines VA Medical Center in Hines, Ill. will hold a rally on Saturday, May 10, to demand the administration abandon plans to cut some 80,000 workers from the VA and to reinstate VA workers’ full union rights.

Local community members joined more than 100 nurses today in Bar Harbor, Maine to protest the closure of Mount Desert Island Hospital’s (MDIH) obstetrics department.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United applauds Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) on the reintroduction of the VA Employee Fairness Act, a federal bill that would ensure full collective bargaining rights for nurses and other clinicians in the Veterans Health Administration.

Registered nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., will hold a rally on Thursday, May 8, to demand HCA restore Mountain Area Health Education Center to their approved list of health providers.

Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans are moving forward with their one-day strike on May 1. Gearing up for their third strike as they continue to fight for a first union contract with LCMC Health, nurses say workplace violence is the key issue of this strike. Nurses have given advance notice to the hospital for their work stoppage.

Registered nurses with NNU are reaffirming their support for the Medicare for All Act, following the bill’s reintroduction in Congress today by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the U.S. Senate and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans are unsurprised to see that their employer, LCMC Health, has been named a 2025 Dirty Dozen employer by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, a national organization dedicated to strengthening workplace health and safety.

Registered nurses at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita, Calif., will hold a community rally on Saturday, April 26, to protest the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ ongoing concerns about safe staffing and safe working conditions.

Tonight, nurses from Houlton Regional Hospital’s (HRH) Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Postpartum (LDRP) unit were again joined by scores of community members for a candlelight vigil in a protest against the proposed closure of their hospital’s LDRP department.