Press releases

Registered nurses at Emanate’s Queen of the Valley and Intercommunity Hospitals ratify new four-year contract

RNs say new agreement will increase patient safety and improve infectious disease protocols.

California Nurses Association

October 20, 2021

• CNA

Watsonville Community Hospital nurses to hold informational picket Friday, Oct. 22, to protest Prospect Medical Holdings’ dangerous short-staffing, erosion of patient care standards, deteriorating working conditions

Nurses also say they are facing reprisals for speaking out, and that nurses with vital experience are making the hard choice to leave their community hospital due to the unsafe conditions.

California Nurses Association

October 20, 2021

Mission nurses to hold socially distanced action to demand safe staffing for safe patient care

Registered nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. will hold a socially distanced action to demand the hospital address chronic short-staffing issues that nurses say put patients and RNs at risk.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

October 20, 2021

• NNOC

Nurses applaud OSHA for acting to enforce Covid health care standard in noncompliant states Arizona, Utah, South Carolina

NNU today applauded OSHA for taking a critical step in protecting health care workers in Arizona, South Carolina, and Utah who had been left behind when their states failed to adopt the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on Covid-19 in Health Care issued in June.

National Nurses United

October 19, 2021

RNs at Community First issue 10-day notice for 3-day strike

The nurses have filed unfair labor practice charges against the hospital, charging that management has failed to engage in good faith bargaining with the union.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

October 18, 2021

• NNOC

Union nurses across U.S. convene, call for ending Covid, advancing society based on care

Registered nurse delegates to the virtual NNU convention came together online October 12 to 14 to strategize on ending Covid-19 and to outline the kind of society nurses want to see emerge from this crisis—a society based on care.

National Nurses United

October 15, 2021

Registered nurses at San Francisco’s Chinese Hospital reach tentative agreement on first union contract

Registered nurses at Chinese Hospital in San Francisco are proud to have reached a tentative agreement on their first union contract.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 12, 2021

It’s official – Doctors Hospital of Manteca RNs are now unionized

Today the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certified CNA/NNU to be the collective bargaining representative for registered nurses at Doctors Hospital of Manteca.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 12, 2021

California nurses condemn potential end of Bay Area indoor mask mandate, call for multiple measures of infection control

CNA/NNU today condemned the announcement by health officers for nine Bay Area jurisdictions that indoor masking rules may soon be lifted in most public spaces.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 7, 2021

Central Coast nurses to hold press conference at Sierra Vista Hospital to advocate for safe staffing

Central Coast registered nurses will gather on Thursday, Oct. 7 to express their outrage and respond publicly to a recent New Times-SLO article that quoted Rep. Jordan Cunningham (R-San Luis Obispo) advocating for hospitals to be given waivers on California’s landmark safe nurse-to-patient staffing law (or “ratios”)—claiming that assigning nurses far too many patients to safely care for at once, during the deadly Delta surge, is good for hospitals.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 6, 2021