Press releases

Nurses Deliver Half A Million Signatures to Congress, Calling on Congress to Protect Nurses During COVID-19 Pandemic

Registered nurses today delivered a petition to Congress signed by more than half a million people demanding Congress pass legislation that would protect nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

National Nurses United

August 7, 2020

Union Election Set for Mission, NC RNs

The date has been set. Mail ballots will be sent to registered nurses at HCA’s Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC on August 18 to determine if they want to form a union.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

August 4, 2020

Thousands of Nurses Hold National Day of Action Aug. 5 to Save Lives During COVID-19 and Beyond

As firsthand witnesses and actual victims during this COVID-19 crisis of a health care and economic system that prioritizes money over people, registered nurse members of National Nurses United (NNU) are holding on Aug. 5 more than 200 actions inside and outside hospital facilities in at least 16 states and the District of Columbia to demand that our elected leaders, government, and hospital employers take immediate action to save lives.

National Nurses United

August 3, 2020

San Joaquin General Hospital Nurses to Hold Action To Demand Protections When Treating Patients With COVID-19

The lack of protections against COVID-19 at San Joaquin General Hospital has led to many exposures and infections amongst nurses and other frontline health care workers, which means many nurses are out sick and hospitals are taking advantage of the crisis to not hire more nurses.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

July 30, 2020

UCLA Nurses Rally To Demand Safe Staffing and Appropriate Protections to Protect Nurses and Patients During COVID-19 Pandemic

To protest the recent staffing cuts and inadequate access to COVID-19 related protections for frontline health care workers during this COVID-19 pandemic, registered nurses at UCLA Westwood Medical Center are holding a rally and media availability during their lunch break on July, 29. Nurses will be available to describe recent staffing cuts which put patients and nurses at risk, and the lack of access to COVID-19 testing and safe personal protective equipment.

California Nurses Association

July 28, 2020

National nurse survey reveals devastating impact of reopening too soon

As many states have moved to reopen, a new groundbreaking survey of more than 21,200 nurses reveals that health care workplace conditions remain dangerous and nurses are afraid of infecting their families with COVID-19, announced National Nurses United (NNU) today. The safety of nurses is essential to a safe reopening.

National Nurses United

July 28, 2020

PIH Health-Good Samaritan Hospital nurses hold action to demand protections when treating COVID-19 patients

Registered nurses at PIH Health-Good Samaritan Hospital will hold an action and media availability during their shift change on Wednesday, July 29, announced California Nurses Association/National

California Nurses Association

July 28, 2020

National Nurses United on Senate Republicans’ stimulus proposal: 'Senate Republicans have abandoned nurses and patients'

Senate Republicans today released a fourth COVID-19 stimulus package proposal that utterly fails to address the urgent needs of working people across the country, who are in desperate want of economic support and a comprehensive pandemic response, as well as the needs of nurses and health care workers on the front lines of COVID-19.

National Nurses United

July 27, 2020

National Nurses United on Trump’s Dispatch of Federal Troops: Send Aid Instead for Confronting Virus, Economic Crisis

National Nurses United joins with labor and community activists across Chicago to condemn the Trump Administration decision to dispatch militarized federal troops to Chicago, instead of the critical support Chicago, like other American cities, needs in the face of an exploding pandemic and worsening economic crisis.

National Nurses United

July 25, 2020

National Nurses Statement on Trump’s Threat to Send Federal Troops to More Major U.S. Cities

With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to surge and a worsening economic crisis, the registered nurses of National Nurses United today condemned President Trump’s threat to dispatch federal troops to more major U.S. cities to arrest and assault protesters.

National Nurses United

July 22, 2020