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New Orleans nurses prepare for two-day strike against management retaliation
Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans in New Orleans, La., are moving forward with their strike to protest LCMC Health’s retaliation against nurses for their union activity and patient advocacy.
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Santa Clarita nurses ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention
Registered nurses at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, Calif., voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract on July 9, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.
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Under Siege
The mass layoffs of federal employees have been unprecedented, devastating, and chaotic but it is the cuts to HHS that are extremely alarming to nurses and other health care workers.
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Never Giving Up
With federal unions and veterans under attack, VA nurses are standing up and fighting back. From coast to coast, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration (VA) facilities have been sounding the alarm to stop devastating cuts to the VA and calling out attempts to privatize the VA and fighting to protect union rights for federal employees.
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A movement as fierce as our veterans
“It wasn’t until I started working at the VA that I really understood why I loved being a nurse,” said Mildred Manning Joy, an RN at the VA in Durham, N.C., at a recent congressional briefing on what’s happening in our VA facilities. Like many VA nurses, Joy is a veteran herself.
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Being Visible
“Visibility is our tool,” says Kristine Kittleson, RN and member of the Professional Practice Committee (PPC) at Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin (ASMCA) in Austin, Texas. “Texas is a right-to-work state. The union is us. We have to be visible to keep our membership up, to keep up with recruitment.”
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RNs protest obstetrics closures
Vital obstetrics services are in crisis in Maine. On March 27, Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, a town about an hour southeast of Bangor, announced that it would be closing its obstetrics (OB) department on July 1. A week later, Houlton Regional Hospital in Houlton, announced that it would be shutting down its Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Postpartum (LDRP) unit on May 2.
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Nurses win first private-sector contract in state
Registered nurses at CommonSpirit Longmont United Hospital in Longmont, Colo., made history in April by voting 100 percent in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.
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Lodi nurses win their first union contract
Registered nurses at Adventist Health Lodi Memorial (AHLM) in Lodi, Calif., voted to ratify a four-year contract on June 4. AHLM registered nurses are celebrating their victory on key demands related to patient safety and nurse retention.
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Nurses applaud reintroduction of federal bill to prevent workplace violence
National Nurses United announced its support for the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act. The bipartisan federal bill would mandate health care and social service employers develop and implement a comprehensive workplace violence prevention plan.
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University of California RNs kick off 2025 bargaining
Registered nurses working at University of California medical centers (UC) held rallies across the state on June 10 to mark the start of their contract negotiations.
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National safe staffing bill reintroduced in Congress
National Nurses United applauded the reintroduction of federal legislation to mandate minimum registered nurse-to-patient ratios in every hospital across the country. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Jan Schakowsky and new Senate sponsors, Sen. Alex Padilla and Sen. Jeff Merkley.
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Long Beach and Alhambra nurses each hold one-day strikes
Registered nurses at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Long Beach and Alhambra Hospital Medical Center in Alhambra held one-day strikes on May 22 to protest issues impacting patient care and safe staffing.
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New Orleans nurses strike again
Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans (UMCNO) held a one-day strike on May 1, May Day. It was their third strike as they continue to fight for a first union contract with LCMC Health.
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UChicago Ingalls RNs win strong contract
Registered nurses at UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Ill. voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new four-year contract on April 7, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.
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Frontline health care workers call out corporate control at Medical Alley Annual Dinner
Nurses and supporters rallied outside the Medical Alley Annual Dinner in Minneapolis on the evening of May 15 to demand accountability from health care executives and CEOs who continue to uphold a health care system that puts profits over patients.
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New York nurses fight to stop Medicaid cuts
Frontline nurses know that Medicaid saves lives. One in 3 adults and almost half of all children in New York rely on Medicaid, and Medicaid funds nearly half of all births. Many hospitals throughout the state receive most of their revenue from Medicaid.
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Nurses work to end abuse of mandatory overtime
Addressing an employer practice known to drive nurses away from hospital work, a bipartisan plan introduced in the Michigan Legislature aims to end the rampant abuse of mandatory nurse overtime.
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RNs at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention
Registered nurses at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, Calif., voted overwhelmingly this week in favor of ratifying a new five-year contract. This contract includes significant wins including protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.
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National Nurses United RNs, veterans, and federal unions denounce U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing administration to move ahead with massive federal layoffs
Registered nurses with NNOC/NNU, along with other federal unions and veterans groups, are holding an urgent rally on Weds. July 8 to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s 8-1 ruling, which overrides a lower court’s order that temporarily froze massive federal employee layoffs.
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