National Nurses United emphasized that the midterm elections’ stunning rebuke of the Trump administration’s billionaire-backed agenda is a direct result of voters’ anger over the cost of living, including the outrageous cost of health care. Nurses stressed that voters now expect Democrats to use the power they have been given to advance real, systemic change, and that means advancing Medicare for All.
The “blue wave” of Democrat wins in the midterm elections was a thunderous rebuke of the fascist Trump administration and its billionaire-class agenda of war and militarism, attacks on public health, and unregulated artificial intelligence. Working-class people across the United States are fed up, and we have raised our voices and stood in our collective power to demand real change.
Registered nurses at Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka and Providence Redwood Memorial Hospital in Eureka and Fortuna, California, respectively, voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract Oct. 30, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
On Tuesday, Oct. 27, one week before the midterms, registered nurses in six U.S. cities demanded the country’s major hospital groups do their part to protect free and fair elections.
Nurses are demanding that ICE or any federal immigration agents stay away from their hospitals and that their employers refuse to cooperate, that ICE get out of their communities, and ultimately that the agency be abolished.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at UCI Health Irvine in Irvine, California, will hold a rally and picket on Wednesday, October 28, to highlight their increasing concerns about unsafe working conditions and the removal of certified nursing assistants (CNAs) from ICU night shifts.
Registered nurses at the Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP), in Monterey, California will hold a rally on Monday, October 26 to highlight their patient safety concerns, including short-staffing and ongoing workplace violence issues.
Just weeks before the November midterm elections, a federal judge in California ordered on Oct. 21 a preliminary injunction that stops the Trump administration in nine states from weaponizing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to harass and intimidate voters by having armed agents go door to door to question their eligibility to vote.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Nurses at Watsonville Community Hospital (WCH) in Watsonville, California, will hold a Care Not Cuts Town Hall on Saturday, October 24, to warn community members about the potential decision to close the neonatal intensive care, labor and delivery, and postpartum units, a major shutdown of all birthing care services at the facility.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at Houlton Regional Hospital (HRH) in Houlton, Maine, released their letter of no confidence, following the Board of Trustees’ failure to respond to their concerns about CEO Jeff Zewe. The nurses, who are members of Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, had sent a petition of no confidence in Zewe to the board of trustees in July 2026.
Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
