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Nurses protesting for PPE holding signs "PPE is as essential as I am", "Proper protection for Covid-19 Nurses", "Every Nurse Protected Every Time", "Protect Nurses, Patients, Public Health"

New law requiring hospitals to maintain a three-month supply of PPE takes effect April 1

Nurses welcome the April 1, 2021 implementation of a new law requiring hospitals to create and maintain a three-month stockpile of N95 respirators, gowns, and other personal protective equipment (PPE).

California Nurses Association
March 31, 2021

Good Samaritan RNs hold signs calling for safe staffing

HCA’s Good Samaritan San Jose RNs to protest unsafe staffing

Registered nurses at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose will hold an action Thursday, April 1 to warn the public that severe short staffing in women’s and children’s services at the hospital is putting laboring women and newborns in danger.

California Nurses Association
March 30, 2021

RN speaks at vigil for Janine Paiste-Ponder, RN, at Sutter Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland

Cal/OSHA finds Alta Bates campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center guilty of eight violations, cites Sutter for additional $141,750

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has issued an additional $141,750 in fines to Sutter Health—along with eight new citations—for failing to notify nurses in two units at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Alta Bates Campus in Berkeley, Calif. that they had been exposed to Covid.

California Nurses Association
March 26, 2021

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HCA RN, Community Leader Describe Impact of an HCA Buyout Joining Concerns on Bid for Vidalia’s Meadows Regional Med Ctr

Two witnesses to an HCA Healthcare acquisition of a community hospital in North Carolina joined others Thursday in raising concerns about HCA’s proposed takeover of Meadows Regional Medical Center in Vidalia, Ga.

National Nurses United
March 26, 2021

UC San Francisco RNs hold “Stop Asian Hate” action and vigil at Mission Bay campus - March 19, 2021

University of California nurses condemn ongoing racist attacks on Asian communities

University of California registered nurses are outraged by the ongoing racist and xenophobic attacks against Asians and call for solidarity with Asian communities and a public commitment to solutions that work toward ending structural racism and promoting social equity and healing.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
March 25, 2021

Arcadia health care workers hold signs "Patients First"

Health care workers at Methodist Hospital of Southern California voice patient safety concerns

Health care workers at Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia, Calif., will hold a picket and car caravan on Friday, March 26 to highlight their patient safety concerns, including short-staffing and poor infection control throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

Caregiver and Healthcare Employees Union
March 24, 2021

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Nurses holding signs "Workplace Violence puts everyone at risk"

NNU Applauds House Committee Vote to Advance Bill Protecting Health Care, Social Service Workers from Epidemic of Workplace Violence

National Nurses United (NNU) applauds the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s approval of the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (H.R. 1195), federal legislation that would help stem an epidemic of threats and assaults facing frontline health workers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.

National Nurses United
March 24, 2021

Maine State Nurses Association

Maine Elected Leaders Request Northern Light Drop its Concessionary Labor Contract Demands of Nurses

A group of Maine lawmakers, including members of the Bangor City Council, today delivered a signed letter to Northern Light Home Care and Hospice in Bangor, urging the health care provider to drop its current demands for concessions of its nurses and settle their union contract.

Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
March 24, 2021

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Maine State Nurses Association

Lawmakers to Deliver Letter Urging Northern Light Home Care and Hospice to Rescind Concessionary Labor Contract Demands of Nurses

State Senator Joe Baldacci will be joined by other elected leaders and Northern Light Home Care and Hospice nurses to deliver a letter to Northern Light administrators urging them to withdraw the concessionary labor contract demands it is now making against the nurses.

Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses United
March 23, 2021

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Nurses Urge Georgia Attorney General to Reject HCA Bid to Acquire Vidalia’s Meadows Regional Med Center

National Nurses United today called on Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr to reject HCA Healthcare’s acquisition of Meadows Regional Medical Center in Vidalia, Ga., citing the potential adverse impact on patient care services and care costs for area residents.

National Nurses United
March 23, 2021