Press releases

California nurses celebrate the passage of Proposition 50

California union nurses celebrate the passage of Proposition 50, which helps protect democracy and levels the playing field in response to President Trump’s congressional power grab. Nurses and other volunteers with the union knocked on more than 17,000 doors and made more than 394,500 calls, urging voters to vote Yes on Prop 50.

California Nurses Association

November 4, 2025

• CNA

Union nurses, labor leaders, legislators to rally for Prop. 50 in San Jose on Nov. 2

Union nurses with California Nurses Association along with members of the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council will be holding a rally and canvass on Sunday, Nov. 2, to call on voters to vote Yes on Proposition 50, the redistricting measure.

California Nurses Association

October 31, 2025

• CNA

New Orleans nurses deliver notice for three-day strike for nurse retention

Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans in Louisiana will hold a strike for three days from November 11 to 13 to protest LCMC Health’s refusal to address nurses’ concerns about staff retention in on-going first contract bargaining.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

October 30, 2025

• NNOC, • NNU

National Nurses United on SNAP cutoff, skyrocketing ACA premiums: ‘Our patients will die’

Nurses are outraged that the Trump administration has chosen to cut off SNAP food benefits that keep 42 million patients from starvation in an attempt to pressure Democrats into caving on a spending bill to end the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history without securing health care protections for working people.

National Nurses United

October 29, 2025

• NNU

3,100 Tenet nurses to hold one-day strike Oct. 30 for patient safety at six California hospitals

California registered nurses at six Tenet hospitals will hold one-day strikes on Thursday, Oct. 30, to protest the multibillion-dollar hospital corporation’s refusal to address nurses’ deep concerns about patient care and safe staffing. The 3,100 Tenet nurses have been in contract negotiations since February, with little to no movement on key issues.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 28, 2025

• CNA, • NNU

California nurses condemn ICE presence at California Hospital in Los Angeles

California nurses condemn the on-going immigration enforcement presence at Dignity Health’s California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., and warn that the sustained presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers threatens patients, health care workers, and the entire community that deserves to seek care at their hospital.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 24, 2025

• CNA, • NNU

California Nurses Association condemns Trump administration plans to deploy ICE, National Guard to invade Bay Area

Registered nurses across California condemn and reject the Trump administration’s recently announced plans to deploy ICE, border patrol agents, and the National Guard to the San Francisco Bay Area. President Trump so far has sought to misuse the National Guard and active-duty soldiers to attack major Democratic-led cities.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 23, 2025

• CNA, • NNU

Tenet nurses announce one-day strike for patient safety at six California hospitals

Registered nurses at six Tenet hospitals in California have announced they will hold one-day strikes on Thursday, Oct. 30, to protest the multibillion-dollar hospital corporation’s refusal to address nurses’ deep concerns about patient care and safe staffing.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 22, 2025

• CNA, • NNU

National Nurses United calls for ceasefire in Ukraine, withdrawal of Russian forces

National Nurses United sent a letter yesterday to President Trump urging the United States to “demand a permanent ceasefire, withdrawal of all Russian forces, diplomatic negotiations that respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and just and lasting peace in the country.”

National Nurses United

October 22, 2025

Nation's largest nurses union continues call for all charges against union leader David Huerta to be dropped

National Nurses United continues to stand in solidarity with our union brother, David Huerta, president of Service Employees and International Workers West, and call for the federal government to drop all charges against Huerta. Huerta was hurt, arrested, and detained in Los Angeles in June while exercising his First Amendment-protected rights to observe and document immigration enforcement activity.

National Nurses United

October 21, 2025