Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey nurses issue 10-day notice for one-day strike
RNs at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital have issued a 10-day notice alerting hospital administrators of the nurses’ intent to hold a one-day strike on Sept. 6, 2023. Earlier this month, the nurses overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike as the Cedars-Sinai administration is refusing to address critical nurse recruitment and retention issues.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Aug 29, 2023
Patient Handling
Frequent manual patient handling can cause microinjuries, which accumulate into chronic and sometimes severe musculoskeletal disorders and back injuries. RNs need protection from this ergonomic hazard. Sprains, strains, and tears make up 52% of all injuries that result in days away from work for RNs. Unsafe patient handling causes the bulk of these injuries, some of which have ended nurses’ careers.
The most effective solution is a coordinated safe patient handling program at the hospital-level.
Chicago nurses and faith leaders to deliver letters of support for ongoing contract negotiations to ensure patient safety
Registered nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, Ill., will deliver letters of community support to management. They’ll be joined by faith leaders from Arise Chicago to deliver the letters, including a letter from Ward 17 Alderman David Moore.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Aug 29, 2023
Nurses stand with striking writers, actors in fight against AI
Registered nurses will hold a solidarity march and rally in Los Angeles, Calif. on August 29 in support of striking actors and writers. The event signals a labor movement increasingly united against the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Aug 28, 2023
Nation’s largest nurses union joins March on Washington’s 60th anniversary celebration
President Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, RN, of National Nurses United was honored to speak at today’s celebration of the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, marking the 60th anniversary of the march.
National Nurses United
Aug 26, 2023
Nurses in Humboldt County ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention
Registered nurses at Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka and at Providence Redwood Memorial Hospital voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Aug 25, 2023
Registered nurses at Sutter Davis Hospital vote to join California Nurses Association
Registered nurses at Sutter Davis Hospital in Davis, Calif. voted last night to join California Nurses Association (CNA), an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest and fastest-growing registered nurse (RN) union.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Aug 24, 2023
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NNU delivers petition urging CDC to strengthen proposed infection control guidance; CDC cuts off public comments at advisory committee meeting
NNU delivered a petition signed by nearly 11,000 individuals and organizations to the CDC and its Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, urging them to fully recognize aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens and to strengthen the CDC’s Isolation Precautions guidance.
National Nurses United
Aug 23, 2023
Chicago nurses to hold town hall to demand passage of Illinois safe staffing law
Registered nurses will join elected officials and labor and community leaders for a town hall on Thursday, Aug. 24. Speakers will address the origins of and practical solutions to the short-staffing and workplace violence crises that put patient care at risk and push nurses to strike at Chicago medical facilities.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Aug 22, 2023