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Nurses denounce latest strikes on Gaza hospital and ongoing starvation of Palestinians by Israel

National Nurses United condemned Israel for its ongoing starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza and its latest bombings of Nasser Hospital, strikes that have killed scores of medical and rescue workers, patients, and journalists. Nurses call these actions by Israel tantamount to war crimes and a genocide against Palestinians, and demand an immediate ceasefire as well as a stop to all U.S. funding of Israel’s military.

National Nurses United
August 27, 2025

• NNU

Large group of nurses outside Capitol building in Washington, D.C. with raised fists

National Nurses United blasts Trump administration for trying to bust the union of U.S. Health and Human Services federal employees

National Nurses United (NNU) today blasted the Trump administration for trying to strip U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) federal employees of their collective bargaining rights, much like it has attempted to do with NNU’s members who work for the Veterans Health Administration (VA).

National Nurses United
August 27, 2025

• NNU

Large group of nurses outside Capitol building in Washington, D.C., National Nurses United logo

National Nurses United hosts town hall demanding protections for Social Security

Nurses with NNOC/NNU will host a town hall meeting in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday, Aug. 28, to discuss strategies to protect Social Security, including the passage of the Social Security Expansion Act to guarantee a dignified retirement for all people.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
August 26, 2025

• NNOC, • NNU

Hands holding signs "Transgender Rights Are Human Rights" and "Nurses Care for All People"

Union nurses condemn Trump’s latest attack on transgender people

National Nurses United today condemns one of President Donald Trump’s latest moves against transgender people: Ending coverage of gender-affirming care in federal workers’ health benefits.

National Nurses United
August 22, 2025

• NNU

California nurses hold signs that read "Protect Democracy."

CNA/NNOC statement on redistricting efforts in Democratic-held states

California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee fully supports efforts by Governor Gavin Newsom to counterbalance President Trump and the Republican Party’s election-rigging schemes ahead of the 2026 midterms and encourages leaders of Democratic-held states to respond similarly with effective redistricting plans.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
August 18, 2025

• CNA, • NNOC

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

Kaiser San Rafael nurses to protest clinic layoffs that will delay and deprive patients of care

Registered nurses who work at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael facilities will hold a rally on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025 to protest Kaiser’s plans to lay off 42 RNs and NPs from their outpatient clinics despite the health care giant posting nearly $13 billion in profits last year.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
August 18, 2025

• CNA, • NNU

Large group of nurses outside Capitol building in Washington, D.C., National Nurses United logo

Statement on Trump’s inhumane order to forcibly remove unhoused people from Washington, D.C.

National Nurses United today warned that President Trump’s order to forcibly remove, jail, or involuntarily commit unhoused people from Washington, D.C. streets is not only a violation of their civil and human rights, but will also damage the city’s health care infrastructure by flooding hospitals with a surge of patients who don’t need to be there.

National Nurses United
August 15, 2025

• NNU

Three nurses side-by-side, smiling, holding signs calling out LCMC Health

New Orleans nurses to hold rally denouncing LCMC’s betrayal of the spirit of Charity

Registered nurses from University Medical Center New Orleans (UMCNO) in Louisiana will be joined by community allies as they hold a rally and press conference at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 18, at Charity Hospital to denounce how UMCNO’s owner, LCMC Health, has betrayed the spirit of Charity Hospital and continues to fail the patients and people of New Orleans.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
August 15, 2025

• NNOC, • NNU

Panel at town hall in front of banner "Fund Care Not Billionaires"

Nurses and labor, communities allies vow to fight back against Medicaid cuts

At a town hall on Thursday, registered nurses with California Nurses Association/National Nurses United – along with local elected officials and leaders and members of community organizations from Bakersfield and the Central Valley – vowed to take on the elected officials and corporations that are destroying public programs like Medicaid in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
August 15, 2025

• CNA, • NNU

Nurses at DC rally against Medicaid cuts

Nurses to host Bakersfield town hall to discuss community response to Medicaid cuts

Registered nurses with California Nurses Association/National Nurses United are hosting a town hall on Thursday, August 14, in Bakersfield, California, to discuss strategies that Bakersfield and communities in the Central Valley can adopt, in response to the Trump administration’s and U.S. Representative David Valadao’s unprecedented attack on local health care access.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
August 11, 2025

• CNA, • NNU