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Four nurses inside hospital hold signs "Staff Up for Safe Patient Care"

Chicago nurses and faith leaders to deliver letters of support for ongoing contract negotiations to ensure patient safety

Registered nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, Ill., will deliver letters of community support to management. They’ll be joined by faith leaders from Arise Chicago to deliver the letters, including a letter from Ward 17 Alderman David Moore.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
August 29, 2023

• NNOC, • NNU

Group of nurses outside holding signs "Nurses Support WGA"

Nurses stand with striking writers, actors in fight against AI

Registered nurses will hold a solidarity march and rally in Los Angeles, Calif. on August 29 in support of striking actors and writers. The event signals a labor movement increasingly united against the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
August 28, 2023

• CNA, • NNU

Large group of nurses holding "National Nurses United" banner in front of Washington Mounument

Nation’s largest nurses union joins March on Washington’s 60th anniversary celebration

President Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, RN, of National Nurses United was honored to speak at today’s celebration of the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, marking the 60th anniversary of the march.

National Nurses United
August 26, 2023

• NNU

Group of nurses at table giving thumbs up

Nurses in Humboldt County ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention

Registered nurses at Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka and at Providence Redwood Memorial Hospital voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
August 25, 2023

• CNA, • NNOC

Nurses at Sutter Davis holding up California Nurses Association banner.

Registered nurses at Sutter Davis Hospital vote to join California Nurses Association

Registered nurses at Sutter Davis Hospital in Davis, Calif. voted last night to join California Nurses Association (CNA), an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest and fastest-growing registered nurse (RN) union.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
August 24, 2023

• CNA, • NNU

Nurse holds sign "Science Matters, We Are Not Expendable"

NNU delivers petition urging CDC to strengthen proposed infection control guidance; CDC cuts off public comments at advisory committee meeting

NNU delivered a petition signed by nearly 11,000 individuals and organizations to the CDC and its Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, urging them to fully recognize aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens and to strengthen the CDC’s Isolation Precautions guidance.

National Nurses United
August 23, 2023

• NNU

Four nurses inside hospital hold signs "Staff Up for Safe Patient Care"

Chicago nurses to hold town hall to demand passage of Illinois safe staffing law

Registered nurses will join elected officials and labor and community leaders for a town hall on Thursday, Aug. 24. Speakers will address the origins of and practical solutions to the short-staffing and workplace violence crises that put patient care at risk and push nurses to strike at Chicago medical facilities.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
August 22, 2023

• NNOC, • NNU

Group of four nurses outside hospital hold signs "Staff up for safe patient care"

El Paso nurses to hold informational picket urging The Hospitals of Providence to invest in patient safety

Registered nurses at The Hospitals of Providence in El Paso, Texas, will hold an informational picket to protest the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ deep concerns about patient safety due to unsafe staffing and chronic problems with recruitment and retention of nurses.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
August 18, 2023

• NNOC, • NNU

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Glendale Memorial Hospital health care workers ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and worker retention

Respiratory therapists, laboratory technicians, and many other health care workers at Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, Calif., voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new four-year contract, winning protections to improve patient safety and worker retention.

Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union/California Nurses Association
August 15, 2023

• CHEU, • CNA

Nurses holding sign that reads "Staff up for safe care!"

Community First Medical Center nurses ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention

Registered nurses at Community First Medical Center in Chicago, Ill., voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new 40-month contract winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse recruitment and retention.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
August 9, 2023

• NNOC, • NNU