Press releases

Nurses Call on El Paso Hospitals to Step Up Safety Measures as Virus Crisis Explodes

With the Covid-19 pandemic continuing to explode across El Paso, National Nurses United today called on all regional hospitals and other health facilities to escalate safety precautions to protect patients and health care workers to limit the spread of the deadly virus.

National Nurses United

October 29, 2020

UCSF nurses and frontline workers to hold Friday candlelight vigil demanding justice for Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and API communities

During the Covid-19 pandemic, nurses have seen firsthand how Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian Pacific Islander communities have been disproportionately harmed by lack of access to health services, exposure to the virus, lack of PPE, lack of testing, and economic peril due to historic racial disparities.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 29, 2020

Calais Regional Hospital Employees Demand CEO Rod Boula be terminated

The unionized employees of Calais Regional Hospital (CRH) are demanding that the hospital’s Board of Directors remove and replace their current CEO, Rod Boula. The employees include Registered Nurses, Medical Laboratory Scientists, and Technical employees, such as Laboratory Technologists and Radiology Technologists.

Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee

October 29, 2020

PIH Health-Good Samaritan Hospital RNs hold actions to honor fallen nurses, call for improved patient safety

Registered nurses at PIH Health-Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles will hold a candlelight vigil and silent protest Thursday, Oct. 29 to honor fallen RNs and publicize their immediate needs to improve care for their patients: safe RN staffing, incentives to retain and recruit staff, adequate provision of PPE when needed, and better support for nurses who become symptomatic and/or test positive for Covid-19.

California Nurses Association

October 28, 2020

Children’s Hospital Oakland nurses, nurse practitioners to rally Tuesday, Oct. 27, citing safe patient care concerns

Registered nurses (RNs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) will hold a rally on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at Children’s Hospital Oakland to highlight con­cerns about patient safety, unsafe staffing and overall poor working conditions.

California Nurses Association

October 26, 2020

Health care workers to hold informational picket at Shasta Regional Medical Center for patient safety and safe staffing

Union health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) in Redding, Calif. will hold an informational picket on Oct. 28 to demand safe patient staffing.

Caregiver and Healthcare Employees Union/California Nurses Association

October 26, 2020

• CHEU

National Nurses Condemn Statements by Trump, Meadows To Dismiss Covid-19 Deaths, Downplay Toll of Pandemic

National Nurses United (NNU) today sharply criticized what nurses called “desperate” statements by President Trump and his Chief of Staff Mark Meadows this weekend intended to deflect and dismiss public outrage of the mounting toll of the Covid-19 pandemic.

National Nurses United

October 25, 2020

RNs, community call emergency virtual town hall in defense of Black and Brown lives and reject Preckwinkle’s racist health budget proposal

Registered nurses, labor leaders, and community activists are calling on all concerned citizens to join the fight to defend public health for Black and Brown Chicagoans during an emergency virtual town hall meeting, Monday, Oct. 26

National Nurses United

October 23, 2020

Registered nurses and AFGE Local 2778 health care workers decry the abrupt closure of the Atlanta Veteran Affairs Medical Center nursing home and rally to alert public to eroding patient care during Covid-19 pandemic

Registered nurses and other health care workers at the Atlanta VA Medical Center (VAMC) will hold a rally on Saturday, Oct. 24 to alert the public to the abrupt closure of the Atlanta Community Living Center (CLC), or VA nursing home, the displacement of the patient residents, and concerns about the lack of appropriate training for nurses moved to provide care outside of their expertise.

National Nurses United

October 22, 2020

• Veterans Affairs

Corpus Christi RNs to voice alarm over unsafe changes to staffing system Thursday

Registered nurses at Doctors-Regional Corpus Christi Medical Center will gather outside the hospital Thursday to alert the public to their concerns over an erosion of staffing standards that they warn is a significant risk to patient safety.

National Nurses United

October 21, 2020