Press releases

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

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

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

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 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

NNU statement on release of Los Angeles RN from ICE custody

National Nurses United celebrates the release of fellow registered nurse, Amanda Trebach, yesterday evening without criminal charges. It is a great relief to know she is home. We thank all of our nurse members and community supporters for spreading the word and joining the efforts led by Unión del Barrio to bring her home.

National Nurses United

August 10, 2025

• NNU

NNU statement on ICE arrest of Los Angeles RN

National Nurses United condemns the detainment of fellow registered nurse, Amanda Trebach, by federal agents. We call for her immediate release and a full dismissal of all the charges brought against her. 

National Nurses United

August 9, 2025

• NNU

Atlanta nurses to rally against VA cuts to staffing, mental health services for homeless and high-risk veterans

Registered nurses at Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center in Decatur, Ga., will hold a rally on Tuesday, August 12 in response to proposed cuts to services for homeless and high-risk veterans who need mental health services.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

August 8, 2025

• NNOC, • NNU

NNU statement responding to VA collective bargaining agreement termination

The nation's largest union of registered nurses provided this statement in response to the announcement to terminate collective bargaining agreements for many VA bargaining-unit employees, including some 16,000 nurses represented by National Nurses United at 23 facilities.

National Nurses United

August 6, 2025

• NNU

NNU statement on RFK Jr. slashing mRNA vaccine research

The nation's largest union of registered nurses provided the following statement in response to the Department of Health and Human Services, headed by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., slashing nearly $500 million in mRNA vaccine research:

National Nurses United

August 6, 2025

• NNU