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USC Arcadia Hospital nurses and health care workers ratify new contracts with strong measures to improve patient safety and retention
Registered nurses and health care workers at USC Arcadia Hospital in Arcadia, Calif. voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying their respective three-year contracts on Nov. 5 and 6, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse and health care worker retention.
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Registered nurses at Endeavor Health Edward Hospital vote overwhelmingly to join National Nurses Organizing Committee
Registered nurses at Endeavor Health Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., voted overwhelmingly to join National Nurses Organizing Committee. Sixty-five percent of nurses voted to join the union to have a say in decisions that affect patient care.
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Sutter nurses, health care workers to hold info pickets across NorCal
Nurses notified their employer on Oct. 29 that they would hold informational pickets across the region. Sutter nurses have been in negotiations since early August 2026 for a new contract with little to no movement on key issues. The RNs and health care workers are urging management to invest in nursing staff and agree to a contract that provides:
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Nation’s largest union of registered nurses call for Democrats to pass Medicare for All
National Nurses United emphasized that the midterm elections’ stunning rebuke of the Trump administration’s billionaire-backed agenda is a direct result of voters’ anger over the cost of living, including the outrageous cost of health care. Nurses stressed that voters now expect Democrats to use the power they have been given to advance real, systemic change, and that means advancing Medicare for All.
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Nurses on midterms: ‘Working people have rebuked Trump, billionaire class’
The “blue wave” of Democrat wins in the midterm elections was a thunderous rebuke of the fascist Trump administration and its billionaire-class agenda of war and militarism, attacks on public health, and unregulated artificial intelligence. Working-class people across the United States are fed up, and we have raised our voices and stood in our collective power to demand real change.
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Eureka and Fortuna nurses ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention
Registered nurses at Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka and Providence Redwood Memorial Hospital in Eureka and Fortuna, California, respectively, voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract Oct. 30, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.
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In nationwide protests, nurses demand health care employers protect free and fair elections
On Tuesday, Oct. 27, one week before the midterms, registered nurses in six U.S. cities demanded the country’s major hospital groups do their part to protect free and fair elections.
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Nurses to hold emergency press conference denouncing ICE presence at Central Coast hospitals endangering patients, families, community
Nurses are demanding that ICE or any federal immigration agents stay away from their hospitals and that their employers refuse to cooperate, that ICE get out of their communities, and ultimately that the agency be abolished.
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UCI Health Irvine nurses to hold rally protesting unsafe staffing, elimination of night-shift ICU support
Registered nurses at UCI Health Irvine in Irvine, California, will hold a rally and picket on Wednesday, October 28, to highlight their increasing concerns about unsafe working conditions and the removal of certified nursing assistants (CNAs) from ICU night shifts.
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Monterey nurses to rally for patient safety
Registered nurses at the Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP), in Monterey, California will hold a rally on Monday, October 26 to highlight their patient safety concerns, including short-staffing and ongoing workplace violence issues.
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Union nurses, municipalities, and voter democracy groups successfully block Trump’s fascist Department of Homeland Security from harassing and intimidating voters in nine states
Just weeks before the November midterm elections, a federal judge in California ordered on Oct. 21 a preliminary injunction that stops the Trump administration in nine states from weaponizing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to harass and intimidate voters by having armed agents go door to door to question their eligibility to vote.
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Watsonville Community Hospital nurses plan town hall about threatened labor and delivery, postpartum, and NICU shutdowns
Nurses at Watsonville Community Hospital (WCH) in Watsonville, California, will hold a Care Not Cuts Town Hall on Saturday, October 24, to warn community members about the potential decision to close the neonatal intensive care, labor and delivery, and postpartum units, a major shutdown of all birthing care services at the facility.
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Houlton Regional Hospital’s Board of Trustees fail to respond to nurses’ vote of no confidence in CEO Jeff Zewe
Registered nurses at Houlton Regional Hospital (HRH) in Houlton, Maine, released their letter of no confidence, following the Board of Trustees’ failure to respond to their concerns about CEO Jeff Zewe. The nurses, who are members of Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, had sent a petition of no confidence in Zewe to the board of trustees in July 2026.
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Rush nurses hold rally for patient safety
Registered nurses at Rush University Medical Center, in Chicago, Ill., will hold a rally on Thursday, Oct. 22, to highlight their staffing proposals to improve patient safety. The nurses, who are in negotiations for their first union contract, have proposed language to improve RN staffing, including enforceable protections that ensure staffing decisions are driven by patient care needs, and are demanding that bedside nurses have a meaningful voice in decisions affecting their patients.
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National Nurses United condemns Trump’s unhinged political and racist attack on Rep. Omar
The nation’s largest union of registered nurses issued the following statement, in response to the federal government’s raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home, confiscating her possessions, and reports of attempting to strip her of her citizenship.
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Union election at MedStar Franklin Square too close to call and marred by MedStar Health union busting
Registered nurses at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, Md. voted on whether to join National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United in an election held on Oct. 14 and 15, 2026. The results were inconclusive at the end of the night, with challenged ballots still to be resolved.
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UMC New Orleans nurses to hold press conference on LCMC short-changing patients and nurses
In the wake of LCMC’s “Spirit of Charity Gala” last week, Registered Nurses from University Medical Center (UMC) in New Orleans, La., will hold a press conference on Friday, Oct. 16, to highlight their patient safety concerns, including short-staffing, high turnover, and wage theft.
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National Nurses United endorses Rep. Ramirez’s Reimagining Safety Act
National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of registered nurses in the United States with more than 225,000 members, is proud to endorse Representative Delia Ramirez’s Reimagining Safety Act to abolish ICE, reinvest in care.
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Wichita nurses ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention
Registered nurses at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis and St. Joseph hospitals in Wichita, Kansas, voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract today, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.
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