Sen. Baldwin and Rep Courtney will be speaking at a press conference at noon on Wednesday, along with NNU President Jean Ross, RN; AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond; American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten; Meg Dionne, RN at Maine Medical Center in Portland; and others.
National Nurses United called the draft majority U.S. Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade an “unconscionable threat to women’s health and security, especially low-income women and all child-bearing people who have fewer options to exercise their reproductive rights.”
RNs at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, Calif., ratified a new three-year collective bargaining agreement. Highlights of the contract include improved patient care, staffing, and nurse advocacy provisions.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
In a vote conducted by the union between April 20 and April 24, 93 percent of participants, and a majority of all eligible nurses, voted “no confidence” in the leadership of Chief Nursing Officer Rita Fowler and Human Resources Director Chris Greenley.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, held an informational picket at the facility during their morning shift change and will hold another during their evening shift change.
Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
Nurses will hold an informational picket on April 27 to protest chronic short staffing and the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ deep concerns about patient care and safe staffing.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Celebrants to the 2022 Frist Gala at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville will be greeted by nurses with a reminder of the less-than-celebratory record of the Frist family and the health care corporation it cofounded while reaping enormous profits during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Registered nurses at UCLA and UCSF medical centers will hold rallies and press conferences on Wednesday, April 27 to demand the University of California address critical, ongoing staffing and patient safety issues.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at nine Tenet hospitals throughout California will hold actions April 27 to raise awareness of chronic understaffing and high turnover rates at the hospitals.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
