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Maine Medical Center nurses overwhelmingly ratify three-year union contract

After nearly four months of bargaining, nurses at Maine Medical Center in Portland voted last night to ratify a new union contract that provides many new safety measures for patients and nurses, among other improvements.

Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
January 8, 2026

• MSNA, • NNOC, • NNU

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Union nurses horrified by Minneapolis shooting, demand ICE out of communities and justice for woman’s death

National Nurses United, the country’s largest nurses union, today expresses horror, sorrow, and condemnation following the fatal shooting by ICE in Minneapolis, Minnesota, issuing the following statement.

National Nurses United
January 7, 2026

• NNU

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Northern Maine Medical Center nurses vote to keep their union

Registered nurses at Northern Maine Medical Center (NMMC) in Fort Kent, Maine, voted tonight to re-certify their union formed in 2024, rejecting an NMMC management-backed attempt to dissolve their union.

Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
January 7, 2026

• NNU, • NNOC, • MSNA

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Nurses, veterans to rally against Trump plan to eliminate hundreds of VA jobs in NYC

Registered nurses and veterans will hold a rally in the Bronx on Thursday, Jan. 8, to denounce the Trump administration’s plans to cut tens of thousands of jobs from the VA. The VA informed NNOC/NNU that 138 positions will be eliminated in the Bronx, and 245 positions will be cut across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. 

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
January 6, 2026

• NNU, • NNOC, • Veterans Affairs

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Nurses condemn Trump’s unilateral military action against Venezuela

Nurses across the country are outraged that the Trump administration has ignored the Constitution and committed an imperialist act of war over the weekend without approval from Congress and without backing from our patients, working class people across the United States who are already struggling here at home to afford basic necessities such as health care, food, and housing.

National Nurses United
January 5, 2026

• NNU

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South Florida nurses deliver notices for strikes at three HSA hospitals

Nurses at the HSA facilities are currently bargaining for renewed union contracts with HSA management. The RNs say they are striking for safe staffing because of the implications safe staffing has for safe patient care.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
December 29, 2025

• NNOC, • NNU

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St. Louis nurses rally to demand SLU Hospital take immediate action on safe staffing and workplace violence prevention

Registered nurses at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., will hold a rally on Tuesday, Dec. 23, to highlight chronic short staffing and ongoing safety concerns that SSM Health has repeatedly refused to address.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
December 19, 2025

• NNOC, • NNU

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Nurses condemn escalating attacks on transgender patients and their health care providers

Nurses across the country reject new Trump Department of Health and Human Services plans seeking to ban the provision of gender-affirming care and to intimidate health care workers who care for trans patients.

National Nurses United
December 19, 2025

• NNU

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Registered nurses at Sutter CPMC Davies vote overwhelmingly to join California Nurses Association

Registered nurses at Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center Davies in San Francisco, Calif., voted overwhelmingly to join California Nurses Association. The election represents a significant milestone for San Francisco as well – Sutter CPMC Davies was the city’s last remaining nonunion hospital for RNs.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
December 18, 2025

• CNA, • NNU

Large group of nurses outside capitol building holding signs "Some Cuts Don't Heal" and "Fund Care Not Billionaires"

Nurses demand Congress act to extend ACA tax credits

National Nurses United has sent letters to members of the U.S. Congress demanding they vote no on pending legislation that fails to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies expiring at the end of 2025, and instead support the House Discharge Petition that is a clean three-year extension of the subsidies.

National Nurses United
December 17, 2025

• NNU