NNU today applauded OSHA for taking a critical step in protecting health care workers in Arizona, South Carolina, and Utah who had been left behind when their states failed to adopt the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on Covid-19 in Health Care issued in June.

Registered nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. will hold a socially distanced action to demand the hospital address chronic short-staffing issues that nurses say put patients and RNs at risk.

The nurses have filed unfair labor practice charges against the hospital, charging that management has failed to engage in good faith bargaining with the union.

Registered nurse delegates to the virtual NNU convention came together online October 12 to 14 to strategize on ending Covid-19 and to outline the kind of society nurses want to see emerge from this crisis—a society based on care.

Registered nurses at Chinese Hospital in San Francisco are proud to have reached a tentative agreement on their first union contract.

Today the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certified CNA/NNU to be the collective bargaining representative for registered nurses at Doctors Hospital of Manteca.

CNA/NNU today condemned the announcement by health officers for nine Bay Area jurisdictions that indoor masking rules may soon be lifted in most public spaces.

Central Coast registered nurses will gather on Thursday, Oct. 7 to express their outrage and respond publicly to a recent New Times-SLO article that quoted Rep. Jordan Cunningham (R-San Luis Obispo) advocating for hospitals to be given waivers on California’s landmark safe nurse-to-patient staffing law (or “ratios”)—claiming that assigning nurses far too many patients to safely care for at once, during the deadly Delta surge, is good for hospitals.

Nurses say chronic short staffing and a lack of resources has contributed to moral injury on the job while Sutter Health continues to turn a profit.