Press releases

Clean Sweep - Kindred Hospital, Baldwin Park Workers Join RNs in Voting for Caregivers Union

Hospital workers at Kindred Hospital-Baldwin Park Wednesday night voted by 91 percent to unionize with the Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union (CHEU), an affiliate of the California Nurses Association.

Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union

November 10, 2016

• CHEU

Yes on Proposition 61 Campaign Thanks Californians for Valiant Effort in Fight for Lower Drug Prices

SACRAMENTO, CA – Yes on Prop 61/Californians for Lower Drug Prices today thanked their key supporters and California voters for their valiant efforts to bring the battle for lower drug prices to Big Pharma’s doorstep.

California Nurses Association

November 9, 2016

Broad Action to Rally, Press Congress November 17 To Reject the Trans Pacific Partnership

In the wake of a national election that activists say demonstrates the ever-greater urgency of grassroots mobilization, a major amalgamation of labor, environmental, healthcare, consumer and other advocacy groups will rally in Washington November 17 to demand the lame duck Congress reject the fatally flawed Trans-Pacific Partnership pact.

November 9, 2016

Registered Nurse Response Network Sends Nurse Volunteers on Second Deployment to Standing Rock

National Nurses United (NNU)’s Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a national network of volunteer nurses, will deploy a second team of RN volunteers to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation—to help with existing medical and first aid support for land and water protectors—NNU announced today.

RN Response Network

November 7, 2016

• RNRN

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Returns to California to Campaign for Prop 61

Yes on Prop 61/Californians for Lower Drug Prices announced today that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, in partnership with the California Nurses Association, will speak at two public rallies in California on Monday, November 7. Sanders will appear in downtown Los Angeles in Pershing Square at 10:30AM and at a second rally in Sacramento at the California State Capitol that afternoon at 1:00PM. 


California Nurses Association

November 7, 2016

Kindred Hospital – Baldwin Park RNs Vote by 90% to Join California Nurses Association

By a sweeping 90 percent margin, registered nurses at Kindred Hospital-Baldwin Park voted Tuesday night to join the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, the state’s largest nurses union.

California Nurses Association

November 2, 2016

Nurses Union Asks State to Reject Venice Regional Medical Center's Application to Build New Hospital

National Nurses Organizing Committee - Florida, has submitted a letter to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration requesting that they reject Venice Regional Medical Center's Certificate of Need Application to build a new facility.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United - Florida

November 2, 2016

Antelope Valley Hospital Nurses Rally to Illuminate Need for Safe Staffing

Nurses, families, and community members will gather on Wednesday, Nov. 2, for an evening rally to “shine a light on the need for safe staffing” at Antelope Valley Hospital (AVH)—releasing 94 illuminated balloons representing the 94 registered nurse positions at the hospital.

California Nurses Association

November 1, 2016

California Nurses Association/NNU Wins Nation-Leading Regulations to Prevent Workplace Violence

Thanks to the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, California is enacting the nation’s strongest regulations to prevent workplace violence in healthcare settings.

California Nurses Association

November 1, 2016

Nurses Condemn Attacks on Water Protectors Opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline Project

National Nurses United today sharply condemned police and armed guard attacks on members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, other First Nations, environmental activists, and other protectors who have bravely participated in protests against the Dakota Access pipeline project.

National Nurses United

October 27, 2016