CNA press releases

Nurses Plan Rally to Protest Eroding Patient Care Conditions at Southern California Hospital

Registered nurses at Southern California Hospital at Culver City (SCHCC) will rally in front of the hospital Tuesday morning to protest eroding patient care conditions announced the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United today.

California Nurses Association

February 22, 2016

Nurses Demand PHCD Board Require Highest Standards of Care from Companies Vying for Long-term Lease

This week the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United called upon the Petaluma Health Care District (PHCD) Board of Directors, to guarantee that a set of conditions assuring the highest standards of care be met by the two companies it is considering for the long-term lease of Petaluma Valley Hospital (PVH) in 2017.

California Nurses Association

February 19, 2016

Registered Nurses at Kindred Westminster Ratify First CNA Contract

Registered nurses at Kindred Hospital Westminster (KHW) in Westminster, Ca. are celebrating the ratification of their first-ever collective bargaining agreement—overwhelmingly approved this week—the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) announced today.

California Nurses Association

February 4, 2016

NLRB Rules in Favor of Illegally Terminated Huntington Memorial Nurses

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced on Friday, January 29, that they found merit to all the allegations that registered nurses, Allysha Almada and Vicki Lin, were illegally fired from Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. Nurses will hold a press conference on Thursday to celebrate the NLRB decision and discuss next steps in their efforts to improve the quality of patient care and form a union at the hospital.

California Nurses Association

February 4, 2016

Nurses, Community Members Call on Marin General to Improve Patient Care

Registered nurses and Marin community members will hold a candlelight vigil at Marin General Hospital today to highlight growing concerns over unsafe staffing levels and reductions in the quality of patient care, California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced.

California Nurses Association

January 27, 2016

Nurses Urge California AG to Deny Application for Merger of St. Joseph Health System and Providence

The nation's largest nurses organization, National Nurses United, this week called on California Attorney General Kamala Harris to reject efforts by two large Catholic hospital systems to consolidate, in a merger that NNU warns could have a major impact on the cost, quality and availability of critical hospital services.

California Nurses Association

January 15, 2016

Mills-Peninsula Sutter RNs Ratify New Contract

Registered nurses who work at Mills-Peninsula Health Services hospitals in San Mateo and Burlingame, Ca. voted by 92 percent Wednesday to approve a new contract becoming the latest Sutter RNs to win a new collective bargaining agreement with significant gains.

California Nurses Association

January 14, 2016

Alvarado Hospital Medical Center Losing Experienced RNs to Other Area Hospitals

Registered nurses at Alvarado Hospital Medical Center (AHMC) will speak out on how the loss of experienced registered nurses is impacting the quality of patient care at a press conference on Wednesday. The nurses are calling on hospital management to stanch the flow of RNs to the UC San Diego Medical Center and other area hospitals by improving working conditions at the hospital.

California Nurses Association

January 11, 2016

Sutter Santa Rosa, Lakeside RNs Approve New Pacts

Sutter Santa Rosa and Sutter Lakeside registered nurses have voted to approve new collective bargaining contracts joining their Sutter colleagues in Auburn, Roseville, and Tracy in new union contracts that will provide significant economic gains and protect nurses and patient standards.

California Nurses Association

January 6, 2016

Nurses to Send Off the #BernieBus from Los Angeles

‘The Most Trusted Profession Trusts Bernie’. If voters in the early primary states have not yet seen that message now posted on select billboards in states like Nevada and Iowa, they’ll soon be able to see it rolling by on wheels. The bus will bring nurses to meet with community groups, students, and other supporters and voters.

National Nurses United

January 4, 2016