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Global Nurses United celebrates successful meeting on pandemic policy and climate change

More than 250 nurses from 33 countries across six continents gathered to discuss the ongoing impacts the Covid-19 pandemic has had in their countries, as well as their current and future concerns about health impacts of the pervasive problem of understaffing in hospitals and clinics around the world and the climate crisis.

Global Nurses United
October 10, 2023

• GNU

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California Nurses Association: Gov. Newsom betrays nurses and CalCare movement by signing S.B. 770

Sandy Reding, RN and president of California Nurses Association – the state’s largest union of registered nurses and fiercest advocates for single-payer health care – issued the following statement denouncing the signing of S.B. 770.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
October 7, 2023

• CNA, • NNU

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California Nurses Association celebrates new workplace protections from surgical smoke in hospitals signed into law by Gov. Newsom

California Nurses Association celebrates Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing of A.B. 1007, a bill that requires the development and adoption of enforceable workplace health and safety protections from surgical smoke in California hospitals, authored by Assemblymember Liz Ortega and sponsored by CNA.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
October 7, 2023

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Apple Valley RNs ratify new contract with improvements for patient safety and nurse retention

Registered nurses at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, Calif., have overwhelmingly voted to ratify a new three-year union contract with hospital management, the culmination of a campaign persuading Providence management to invest in patient care improvements at the hospital.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
September 30, 2023

• CNA, • NNU

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San Pedro nurses ratify a new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and staff retention

In a resounding victory for patient care, nurses at Providence Little Company Mary Medical Center in San Pedro, Calif., have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year union contract with hospital management.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
September 30, 2023

• CNA, • NNU

Group pic of Trinity behavioral health unit nurses marching on the boss.

Trinity nurses to hold press conference condemning behavioral health unit shutdown

RNs at HCA Florida Trinity Hospital, in Trinity, Fla., will hold a press conference on Oct. 3 to speak out about their concerns regarding HCA’s shutdown of their hospital’s behavioral health unit.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
September 29, 2023

• NNOC, • NNU

Group of three nurses inside hospital, one hold sign "Saf Staffing Saves Lives"

Illinois health care workers to speak out against dangerous staffing practices at hearing

Speakers from hospitals and nursing homes will explain how industry caused the staffing crisis and how safe staffing legislation can solve it.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
September 29, 2023

• NNOC, • NNU

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Saint Agnes nurses file charges against Ascension Health claiming unlawful interference with union drive

Registered nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md. have filed unfair labor practice charges against Ascension Health, one of the largest nonprofit Catholic hospital chains in the country, claiming management has violated labor law by refusing to respect the nurses’ right to organize.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
September 28, 2023

• NNOC, • NNU

UCSD La Jolla nurses holding banner that reads "Patient safety comes from union strength!"

UCSD nurses to protest unsafe overcrowding in emergency department

Registered nurses at UCSD Health Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla, Calif., will hold a rally on Wednesday, Sept. 27 to demand an end to UC management’s unsafe practice of placing emergency room patients in hallways and areas that are not properly equipped or staffed. At times, there are as many as 75 patients who do not have a bed.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
September 25, 2023

• CNA, • NNU

Nurses on picket line, one holds sign "Caution, Unsafe Staffing Inside"

Austin nurses to rally for safer health care for newborns and open heart surgery patients

Nurses say that, as Ascension management builds a new tower for women’s services, the company is failing to safely staff the existing labor and delivery unit and neonatal intensive care unit.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
September 25, 2023

• NNOC, • NNU