On March 20, Ascension Seton Medical Center nurses will gather at the district office of U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in Austin, Texas to protest proposed Medicaid cuts that would deteriorate health care services in the region.

Registered nurses at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif., will hold an informational picket on Tuesday, March 18, to protest the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ ongoing concerns about safe staffing and safe working conditions.

Registered nurses at HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital in Port Charlotte, Fla. will hold a rally on March 18 to demand management work with nurses to create workplace violence prevention plans, initiate hands-on training for nurses and other hospital personnel, and implement protocols and policies to reduce workplace violence.

National Nurses United, the largest U.S. union and professional organization of registered nurses, calls on the U.S. Senate to reject the confirmation of Dr. Mehmet Oz as director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Registered nurses with National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses in the country with more than 225,000 members, applaud Judge William H. Alsup’s ruling today ordering the immediate rehiring of federal workers who were fired unlawfully.

Nurses at University of Southern California hospitals will hold two informational pickets on March 14 in Glendale and Los Angeles, California, as they protest USC administration’s refusal to adequately address RNs’ deep concerns about patient care and safe working conditions.

Registered nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, in Baltimore, Md., will hold a rally on Friday, March 14, to highlight their patient safety concerns, including hospital-wide short-staffing, unnecessarily long wait times in the ER, and lack of pediatrics-trained nurses.

San Joaquin County health system’s registered nurses voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract on Tuesday, March 11, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention, announced California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.

California Nurses Association applauds California State Assemblymember Ash Kalra’s introduction of A.B. 692, which would end exploitative “stay-or-pay” worker contracts that coerce workers to enter agreements requiring them to pay an alleged debt or other financial penalty to their employer if they leave their job before a certain time period.

Nurses from National Nurses United (NNU) will be joining Mobilize to Save Our Health Care, a march in Washington, D.C., on March 12. NNU nurses say funding for programs like Medicaid and Medicare is critical to patient care across the country and that budget cuts are a direct attack on patients nationwide.