Registered nurses at Alameda and San Leandro Hospitals in the East Bay will hold an informational picket at San Leandro Hospital on Oct. 30, 2024, to highlight a number of significant patient safety concerns that Alameda Health Systems (AHS) has failed to meaningfully address during contract bargaining.

Nurses at Dignity Health St. Bernardine Medical Center in San Bernardino, California will hold an informational picket on Tuesday, October 29 to protest management’s refusal to address chronic understaffing impacting patient safety. The lack of investment in staffing from CommonSpirit Health, the owners and operators of St. Bernardine Medical Center, is leading to high turnover rates in a hospital that already suffered from inadequate staffing during the Covid-19 pandemic.

At a joint field hearing on Thursday, October 24 — hosted by the Department of Labor and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Okemos, Michigan — registered nurses with Michigan Nurses Association/National Nurses United joined other workers, advocates, and elected officials to discuss challenges facing workers.

RNs at University Medical Center (UMC) in New Orleans, La., are striking today, Oct. 25, with plans to hold a 9 a.m. rally on their strike line. Tomorrow, nurses will hold a return-to-work march to demonstrate their readiness to get back to patient care following their strike.