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Nurses demand Supreme Court put an end to attacks on patients' reproductive health care decisions

As the legal battle continues over access to Mifepristone, commonly known as the abortion pill, National Nurses United demands an end to what nurses say is “an all-out class war against health care for women.” On May 4, the Supreme Court restored nationwide access to mifepristone by mail, pausing until at least May 11 a lower-court ruling in Louisiana v. FDA that had restricted it.

National Nurses United
May 8, 2026

• NNU

Large group of nurses outside CA State Capitol building, CNA and NNU logos

Nurses demand Kaiser protect DACA colleagues

Registered nurses at Bay Area Kaiser facilities will hold a rally at Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center on Monday, May 11, to protest Kaiser’s plan to terminate nurses who are DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, recipients waiting for the federal government to renew their work documents.

California Nurses Association
May 8, 2026

• CNA

Nurses in front of capitol holding NNU banner.

We need May Day every day to defeat the oppression the latest Supreme Court decision on Voting Rights Act codifies

Last week, the majority right-wing U.S. Supreme Court dealt the last death blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a seminal piece of civil rights legislation that tried to right the centuries of wrong we have committed against fellow Black and nonwhite Americans. But, as we see regularly from the strike line to our state houses to the White House, when working people fight together in unbreakable solidarity, we win.

National Nurses United
May 6, 2026

Large group of nurses posing, smiling, wearing red.

UCLA nurses, health care workers, interns, and residents to protest use of tents and hallway beds at Westwood emergency department

Registered nurses, residents,  interns, and other health care workers at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., will hold a rally on Wednesday, May 6, outside the UC Board of Regents meeting to highlight their patient safety concerns.

California Nurses Association
May 4, 2026

• CNA

Two nurse leaders posing, smiling with Tom Steyer

Union nurses, Tom Steyer united for bold, structural change in California

California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer and California Nurses Association (CNA), will hold a press conference in Oakland, Calif. on Tuesday, May 5. Speakers from the elected leadership of CNA will outline why Steyer is registered nurses’ top choice to lead the state in progressive reform, as well as  the nurses’ “get out the vote” mobilization of its 125,000 members.

California Nurses Association
May 1, 2026

• CNA

Hand holding sign '"Nurses Say Purge Palantir"

Registered nurses, allies to demand Maine Health cancel contract with Palantir Technologies

Maine Medical Center registered nurses will hold a press conference on Friday, May 1 in Portland to demand Maine Health cancel its contract with Palantir Technologies. Joined by their allies in the Purge Palantir campaign, nurses will detail why leaders of Maine’s public institutions and health care organizations should refuse collaborations with the surveillance software giant.

Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
April 30, 2026

• MSNA, • NNOC, • NNU

Nurses holding signs "Don't burn the burn unit" and "Burns need care too"

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital nurses, community members intensify pressure on hospital to keep burn unit open

Registered nurses, community members, labor advocates, and local supporters will hold a press conference on Friday, May 1 outside Bakersfield Memorial Hospital to demand hospital leadership reverse plans to close the hospital’s burn unit.

California Nurses Association
April 29, 2026

• CNA

Group of nurses outside hospital, one holding sign "Let's bargain for a contract that puts safety first"

Wichita nurses to picket on May 1 for patient safety and safe staffing

Nurses at Ascension Via Christi St Francis and St Joseph in Wichita, Kan., will hold an informational picket on May 1 to protest the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ deep concerns about patient care and safe staffing.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
April 29, 2026

• NNOC, • NNU

Large group of nurses outside CA State Capitol building, CNA and NNU logos

UCSF nurses to hold rally for safe patient care at Birth Center at Mission Bay

Registered nurses at UCSF Mission Bay in San Francisco, Calif., will hold a rally on Friday, May 1, to highlight patient safety concerns in the UCSF Birth Center. Nurses say they are deeply concerned about patient safety due to a revolving door of management, coupled with chronic and severe understaffing.

California Nurses Association
April 28, 2026

• CNA

Group of nurses in No Kings march, holding signs "Fund Care, NOT Billionaires"

NNU, nation’s largest nurses union, supports May Day actions

National Nurses United is proudly and enthusiastically taking part in May Day Strong actions on May 1, 2026. NNU recognizes that May Day presents a unique opportunity to demonstrate to the Trump administration and the billionaire class the real potential of working people’s power when we stand united.

National Nurses United
April 28, 2026

• NNU