Press releases

Nurses demand newly elected Democratic Congress save Colorado hospitals, restore VA contracts

Nov. 14 community event will highlight need to reverse H.R.

USC Arcadia Hospital nurses and health care workers ratify new contracts with strong measures to improve patient safety and retention

Registered nurses and health care workers at USC Arcadia Hospital in Arcadia, Calif. voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying their respective three-year contracts on Nov. 5 and 6, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse and health care worker retention.

Registered nurses at Endeavor Health Edward Hospital vote overwhelmingly to join National Nurses Organizing Committee

Registered nurses at Endeavor Health Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., voted overwhelmingly to join National Nurses Organizing Committee. Sixty-five percent of nurses voted to join the union to have a say in decisions that affect patient care.

Sutter nurses, health care workers to hold info pickets across NorCal

Nurses notified their employer on Oct. 29 that they would hold informational pickets across the region. Sutter nurses have been in negotiations since early August 2026 for a new contract with little to no movement on key issues. The RNs and health care workers are urging management to invest in nursing staff and agree to a contract that provides:

Nation’s largest union of registered nurses call for Democrats to pass Medicare for All

National Nurses United emphasized that the midterm elections’ stunning rebuke of the Trump administration’s billionaire-backed agenda is a direct result of voters’ anger over the cost of living, including the outrageous cost of health care. Nurses stressed that voters now expect Democrats to use the power they have been given to advance real, systemic change, and that means advancing Medicare for All.

Nurses on midterms: ‘Working people have rebuked Trump, billionaire class’

The “blue wave” of Democrat wins in the midterm elections was a thunderous rebuke of the fascist Trump administration and its billionaire-class agenda of war and militarism, attacks on public health, and unregulated artificial intelligence. Working-class people across the United States are fed up, and we have raised our voices and stood in our collective power to demand real change.

Eureka and Fortuna nurses ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention

Registered nurses at Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka and Providence Redwood Memorial Hospital in Eureka and Fortuna, California, respectively, voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract Oct. 30, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.

In nationwide protests, nurses demand health care employers protect free and fair elections

On Tuesday, Oct. 27, one week before the midterms, registered nurses in six U.S. cities demanded the country’s major hospital groups do their part to protect free and fair elections.

Nurses to hold emergency press conference denouncing ICE presence at Central Coast hospitals endangering patients, families, community

Nurses are demanding that ICE or any federal immigration agents stay away from their hospitals and that their employers refuse to cooperate, that ICE get out of their communities, and ultimately that the agency be abolished.

UCI Health Irvine nurses to hold rally protesting unsafe staffing, elimination of night-shift ICU support

Registered nurses at UCI Health Irvine in Irvine, California, will hold a rally and picket on Wednesday, October 28, to highlight their increasing concerns about unsafe working conditions and the removal of certified nursing assistants (CNAs) from ICU night shifts.