Press releases

Nurses protest HCA crushing hospitals at Frist Family Gala in Nashville

Nearly 100 union nurses from across the U.S. protested outside the April 27 Frist Family Gala at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tenn., a black-tie event named for the family that founded and is a major shareholder in HCA, the largest for-profit health care company in the country.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

April 27, 2024

• NNOC, • NNU

Nation’s largest nurses union stands in solidarity with campus protesters facing crackdowns and arrests

Nurses represented by National Nurses United stand in solidarity with student and faculty protesters at campuses across the United States facing a violent crackdown for speaking out against the mass killings and public health catastrophe in Gaza.

National Nurses United

April 26, 2024

• NNU

Ascension nurses call for urgent changes after Catholic chain named in “Dirty Dozen” employer list

Ascension nurses continue to call for urgent changes at the sprawling hospital chain after the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health named Ascension to its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of employers who put workers and communities at risk due to unsafe practices.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

April 25, 2024

• NNOC, • NNU

Unfair Practice Charge filed against Washington Hospital for interfering with striking nurses’ labor rights

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United has filed an official Unfair Practice Charge against Washington Hospital Healthcare System for attempting to interfere with and restrain union-represented nurses from exercising their right to strike for one day on May 1.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

April 24, 2024

• CNA, • NNU

California nurses, labor groups, and activists celebrate California Assembly Health Committee advancing CalCare bill from committee

Members of the California Nurses Association, other labor unions, advocacy groups, elected officials and activists praised the Assembly Health Committee’s vote to move forward the single-payer health care bill.

California Nurses Association

April 24, 2024

• CNA

NNU applauds FTC’s new rule limiting the use of training repayment and other stay-or-pay contracts

National Nurses United applauds the FTC’s ruling that limits the use of certain stay-or-pay contracts, including training repayment agreement provisions that have burdened many nurses.

National Nurses United

April 24, 2024

• NNU

Nurse volunteers deployed to Guatemala for free health clinics

A team of volunteer registered nurses returned today from Guatemala, where they provided free medical care in rural, severely underserved areas as part of Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a disaster-relief project of National Nurses United and the California Nurses Foundation.

RN Response Network

April 24, 2024

• RNRN, • NNU

Union nurses endorse Congresswoman Summer Lee for re-election

National Nurses United today announced they have endorsed Congresswoman Summer Lee for re-election in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, where she has already delivered good-paying jobs, a cleaner environment, and leadership on reproductive health care.

National Nurses United

April 22, 2024

• NNU

Fremont nurses deliver notice for one-day strike for professional respect and patient care

Nurses represented by California Nurses Association/National Nurses United at Washington Hospital Healthcare System in Fremont, California, have given notice to their employer that they will hold a 24-hour strike from May 1 to May 2 to protest management’s lack of respect for the WHHS registered nurses. The move is historic, as this will be the first time nurses at Washington Hospital have ever filed to strike.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

April 22, 2024

• CNA, • NNU

El Paso nurses rally as they begin new union contract negotiations with HCA

Nurses in El Paso, Texas, will hold a rally Thursday, April 25, at Las Palmas Medical Center as they begin negotiations on a new union contract with HCA, the facility’s owner. Nurses from both Las Palmas and Del Sol medical centers will attend and speak at the rally, and they say their key priorities for their new contract are intended to improve patient care and working conditions at their facility.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

April 22, 2024

• NNOC, • NNU