November 17 and 18 sympathy strike canceled

Registered nurses have reached a tentative agreement (TA) with the University of California on a new contract, announced California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU). CNA represents more than 25,000 RNs across 19 facilities operated by the University of California, who have been in bargaining for new contracts since June.

Due to the TA, CNA announced that the planned November 17 and November 18 sympathy strikes with AFSCME 3299 are cancelled.

“University of California RNs organized for and won important patient protections at the bargaining table, like curbing the rampant misuse of floating and ensuring safeguards on artificial intelligence,” said Kristan Delmarty, RN at UCLA Santa Monica, and a member of the UC bargaining team and CNA’s board of directors. “Going into this round of bargaining, it was our priority to ensure UC nurses were given the resources to care for our patients and ourselves after years of short-staffing and under-resourcing. We achieved our goal and now we stand together with our AFSCME colleagues, whose essential work demands the same resources guaranteed by a fair contract.”

Thousands of nurses plan to join AFSCME picket lines while not on work time. UC nurses will vote to approve the TA later this week.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the nation with more than 100,000 members in more than 200 facilities throughout California and more than 225,000 RNs nationwide.