The loss of Roe v. Wade's legal underpinnings, stemming from SCOTUS's Dobbs decision, assaults a woman’s right to choose, and threatens other basic rights
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, Case No. 19-1392, overturning decades of precedent holding that the United States Constitution protects a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy. That precedent came from the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which held that the right to choose was part of the broad constitutional right to privacy. The right to privacy has long been understood to be intertwined with the very concept of personal liberty, which is a core stated purpose of the constitution.
National Nurses United
Nation’s largest union of nurses calls on U.S. Senate to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act
NNU urges senators to take a stand for reproductive health justice and codify protections established by Roe v. Wade, ensuring a patient’s right to control their own body, and support the suspension of the filibuster to hold the vote.
National Nurses United
Jul 5, 2022
CHEU Quarterly Roundup: Summer 2022
Palomar Health
Union Shop Stewards and rank and file members at Palomar Health are celebrating the CHEU Bargaining team’s overwhelming ratification of a new 3-year contract with the district. This was a 14 month-long vicious anti-union campaign to beat back takeaways and improve terms and conditions of employment.
Long Beach Medical Center/Miller’s Children’s & Women’s Hospital nurses ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention
The three-year contract covers 2,000 nurses for the period from June 24, 2022 to June 24, 2025.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Jun 29, 2022
Voice and respect
NNU representation provides RNs with the tools to have a real voice in patient care decisions, which we use to create safer health care facilities to protect our patients, our licenses, and ourselves.
Seton nurses strike!
Registered nurses at AHMC Seton Medical Center held a two-day strike on Wednesday, June 22, and Thursday, June 23, in response to the AHMC’s failure to address critical and persistent patient care issues, chronic supply problems, the shuttering of vital services, and the failure of management to consistently attend scheduled bargaining sessions.
Registered nurses and caregivers vote overwhelmingly to ratify new contracts with Palomar Health
Nurses and caregivers had been negotiating for fair contracts for more than 14 months and were prepared to strike over Palomar management’s bad-faith bargaining and numerous other egregious violations of labor law.
California Nurses Association/Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union
Jun 27, 2022
Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center nurses to protest for patient safety this Wednesday
Nurses to highlight their serious patient safety concerns, specifically severe RN understaffing, and a hostile work environment that has driven a large number of staff to leave TVAMC
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurse United
Jun 27, 2022
Nation’s largest union of nurses condemns Supreme Court overturn of constitutional right to abortion
As a union of health care providers dedicated to advocating for the best interests of our patients, NNU opposes any efforts to restrict our patients’ control and choices over their own health care and their own bodies.
National Nurses United
Jun 24, 2022