Press releases

Nurses condemn Texas attack on transgender youth and gender-affirming care

NNU condemns Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s and Attorney General Ken Paxton’s move to criminalize gender-affirming health care for trans youth.

National Nurses United

February 23, 2022

• NNU

USC Verdugo Hills nurses to hold informational picket and car caravan to demand safe patient staffing

RNs at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, Calif. will hold an info picket and car caravan on Wed. Feb. 23 to protest the hospital administration’s refusal to address RNs’ ongoing patient safety concerns and to demand safe patient staffing.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

February 22, 2022

RNs at Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC call on state agencies to enforce safety precautions to protect nurses and patients

Rally is part of an emergency statewide day of action organized in conjunction with the Southern Workers Assembly to address the unsafe working conditions that have led to the deaths and illnesses of workers across the state.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

February 15, 2022

• NNOC, • NNU

OC nurses to hold informational picket for patient safety at West Anaheim Medical Center

Nurses say that the hospital should cancel elective surgeries because those beds and nurses are needed for other emergent patients. RNs in all medical departments are short-staffed, putting patient safety in jeopardy.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

February 11, 2022

• CNA, • NNU

Veterans Health nurses hold action, deliver petition to demand needed leave policies to protect veteran patients

Chicago-area nurses will hold an action to protest inadequate Covid leave policies that they say jeopardize their veteran patients by pushing or encouraging nurses to come to work sick.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

February 11, 2022

• Veterans Affairs, • NNOC, • NNU

Alhambra Hospital RNs ratify a new contract with improvements for patient safety and nurse retention

The collective bargaining agreement was the result of an almost six-month fight, which included an informational picket for patient safety and multiple other actions.

California Nurses Association

February 10, 2022

• CNA

Reno nurses to hold informational picket to urge Prime Healthcare, Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center to protect patients

Registered nurses demand that Prime Healthcare invest in RN staff and safe patient care.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

February 9, 2022

• NNOC

Nurses celebrate step forward for gender equity in workers compensation as CA Senate passes SB 213

Bill will ensure nurses and other health care workers are automatically presumed to be eligible for workers’ comp if they experience some common work-related conditions.

California Nurses Association

February 4, 2022

• CNA

Nurses at Tri-City Medical Center Vote Overwhelmingly to Authorize a One-day Strike

Nurses voted by an overwhelming majority to authorize their nurse negotiators to call a one-day strike if the issues RNs raised in ongoing contract negotiations to protect their patients and improve patient care remain unresolved

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

February 2, 2022

• CNA

Nurses vow to continue fight for CalCare because ‘we never give up on our patients’

After nurses and our allies learned that the California State Assembly failed to hold a vote on AB 1400, the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act, a bill that would establish a single-payer health system for the state, we are disappointed—but not defeated.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

February 1, 2022