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Group of nurses outside holding banner, signs "Ascension, put patients before profits"

Ascension and CommonSpirit nurses, Maryland Catholic Labor Network call on U.S. bishops to hold Catholic hospital chains accountable to church directives

Registered nurses from Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md. will hold a rally outside the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops annual assembly. They will highlight how Ascension and CommonSpirit have failed to follow USCCB directives to Catholic health care organizations to both serve and advocate for patients “at the margins of society” and “treat its employees respectfully and justly.”

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
November 10, 2025

• NNOC, • NNU

Maine nurses holding banner "Safe Staffing Saves Lives"

Houlton nurses to hold two-day strike

Registered nurses at Houlton Regional Hospital (HRH) in Houlton, Maine, will begin their two-day strike on Tuesday, Nov. 18, to protest management’s refusal to address their deep concerns about staffing and patient care.

Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
November 10, 2025

Large group of nurses inside hospital smiling, with raised fists

New Orleans nurses prepare for three-day strike for nurse retention starting Nov. 11

Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans in Louisiana will hold a strike for three days starting Nov. 11 to protest the refusal of the hospital’s owner and operator, LCMC Health, to address concerns about nursing staff retention.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
November 7, 2025

• NNOC, • NNU

CNA nurses at capitol raising fists and banner "Insist on an RN"

University of California RNs announce sympathy strike

University of California (UC) registered nurses will walk the picket lines Monday, Nov. 17 and Tuesday, Nov. 18 in a sympathy strike with members of AFSCME 3299 and UPTE-CWA.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
November 6, 2025

• CNA

Large group of nurses and other canvassers holding signs "YES on Prop 50"

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

Nurses holding signs "Yes on 50: Nurses for Democracy"

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

Nurses on picket line

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

Nurses holding signs "Some Cuts Don't Heal"

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

Nurses on picket line outside of Doctors Medical Center

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

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

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