Press releases

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

• CHEU

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 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

• MSNA

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

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

Nurse volunteers vaccinate thousands in South Los Angeles

Nurse volunteers from the Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN)—a disaster-relief project of the California Nurses Foundation (CNF) and National Nurses United (NNU)—have been vaccinating the South Los Angeles community for the past three weeks.

National Nurses United

March 22, 2021

• RNRN

National Nurses United registered nurses disapprove of new CDC guidance saying students need only maintain three feet of physical distancing in classrooms

National Nurses United nurses today expressed disapproval that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidance this week decreasing from six to three feet the minimum distance masked students should keep from one another.

National Nurses United

March 21, 2021

Cal/OSHA finds Summit campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center guilty of eight serious violations, cites hospital for $155,250

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has fined Sutter Health’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center $155,250 for numerous, serious Covid-related workplace safety violations following an investigation after the July 2020 death of registered nurse Janine Paiste-Ponder.

California Nurses Association

March 19, 2021

Oak Hill RNs to Rally Friday to Voice Alarm About Unsafe Staffing Issues

Registered nurses at HCA’s Oak Hill Hospital will rally on Friday, March 19, outside the Brooksville, Fla., facility to call public attention to short-staffing levels that they warn puts patients at risk, especially in the hospital’s emergency room and in intensive care units.

National Nurses United

March 18, 2021

New report reveals continued government failure to track and report data on Covid-19 deaths of nurses and other health care workers

National Nurses United’s (NNU) updated report Sins of Omission, reveals continued failures by local, state, and federal governments to track and report data on the Covid-19 deaths and infections of nurses and other health care workers as well as widespread resistance by the hospital and health care industry to provide this critical information.

National Nurses United

March 18, 2021