Registered nurses at California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., will hold an informational picket on Monday, June 29, to protest the administration’s decision to lay off essential unit support staff throughout the facility and to close the pediatric unit.

National Nurses United today condemns the devastating rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States that advance President Trump’s fascist immigration agenda. Two cruel and callous decisions ended Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians and removed protections for asylum seekers.

Registered nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md., gave notice today to their employer that they will hold a strike for one day on Monday, July 6, to protest the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ deep concerns about patient safety and staff retention.

Nurses at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis and St. Joseph hospitals in Wichita, Kan., will hold a one-day strike on July 6 to protest the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ well-documented concerns about patient safety and workplace violence protection as part of contract negotiations.

Nurses at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, Calif., will hold an informational picket to demonstrate mounting opposition among staff and community to stalling in contract negotiations with Alameda Health System. Nurses and patients are particularly outraged about St. Rose management attempting to sub-contract out of the fifth floor at the hospital to Stanford Medicine, potentially creating two tiers of health care for patients in Hayward.

Registered nurses with Contra Costa Health and Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, in Martinez, Calif., will hold an informational picket on Thursday, June 25, to protest the county’s failure to commit to preserving patient care and nursing staff, announced California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) today.

NNU and U.S. Representative Delia Ramirez will hold a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, June 30 to demand an end to the Trump administration’s blockade of oil supplies entering Cuba. Union nurses will be joined by Global Health Partners, which is working to supply the island nation with critical medical equipment and medicine, as fuel shortages enter its fourth month and the humanitarian crisis escalates.

National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union of registered nurses, released the following statement in response to federal prosecutors charging peaceful protestors for alleged conspiracy during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota in early 2026.

Registered nurses at St. Joseph Health in Brazos Valley, Texas, will hold a vigil for patient safety and safe staffing on Wednesday, June 24. The vigil is taking place after hundreds of nurses and hospital employees signed a petition of no confidence in hospital leadership, citing ongoing concerns about patient safety and staffing and the impact of management decisions on the quality of patient care.

Registered nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to join National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest and fastest-growing nurses union. In an election held Wednesday, June 17, nurses voted 96% yes to forming a union.