Kaiser nurses and frontline health care workers will hold Juneteenth actions in Northern and Southern California to peacefully protest the lack of police accountability and demand justice for local communities and an end to systemic racism, which is at the heart of much of the current crisis.
The Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) and National Nurses United (NNU) have renewed their calls for an immediate halt to COVID-19 mask decontamination processes because the testing of decontaminated masks fails to meet established scientific standards.
Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward will hold a press conference on Wednesday, June 17 at 8 am PT, about the latest developments in the Cal/OSHA complaints California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) filed against the facility for workplace violence and the COVID outbreak.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Registered Nurses at HCA’s Research Medical Center and Menorah Medical Center RNs will protest together Wednesday to warn the public about reductions in safe staffing they say put patients in danger in major hospital areas, including critical care and COVID-19 care.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
The 155,000 registered nurse members of National Nurses United today condemned the Trump administration’s change of a rule that rolls back protections for our transgender patients against discrimination by health care providers, hospitals, and health insurance companies.
National Nurses United today criticized a decision by HCA’s Chippenham Hospital in Richmond that will encourage placement of patients potentially infected with the coronavirus in shared rooms with other patients, risking the spread of the virus and the pandemic.
RNs will hold signs in support of Black Lives Matter, calling attention to systemic racism and the need for change. RNs will hold moment of silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds and, during that time, reflect on ways that they can continue to be agents of change.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
National Nurses United (NNU) Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, RN, will testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing, “No Worker Left Behind: Supporting Essential Workers”.
Registered nurses at HCA’s Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC today called on HCA to end efforts to block a democratic vote by nurses on forming a union, including a new demand that would put nurses at risk.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
