RNs at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco, Calif., will hold an informational picket on Mon., Aug. 15, to alert the public to chronic short staffing across the hospital which jeopardizes patient safety.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
NNU joins the international community in condemning this attack on civilians, on children, on health care infrastructure, health care workers, and public health.
Saint Joseph nurses say Providence is violating California’s safe staffing law, which mandates safe RN-to-patient staffing ratios. Ongoing payroll errors have resulted in missing pay for hundreds of nurses.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
RNs at Tenet hospitals throughout California 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
NNU applauded the U.S. Senate for passing the Inflation Reduction Act, which the union called “an important first step to enact reforms to rein in pharmaceutical price gouging and act on the climate crisis,” and urged the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the bill as soon as possible.
Citing a desire for improved staffing and a strengthened voice in patient care protections, registered nurses at Coral Gables Hospital in South Florida voted by 57 percent to join National Nurses Organizing Committee-Florida.
National Nurses Organizing Committee-Florida/National Nurses United
