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Nurses Hold Nationwide Civil Disobedience Actions

September 1, 2026 National Nurses United, Workers World. , , , ,
On Thursday, Aug. 27, hundreds of registered nurses — joined by patients and community allies — mobilized to demand hospitals and elected officials immediately cut ties with artificial intelligence (AI) giant Palantir. The nurses, who are members of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union of registered nurses, stopped traffic in an act of civil disobedience in eight cities: Palo Alto, California; Los Angeles; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Portland, Maine; Asheville, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; and New Orleans. The actions included visual displays of the deadly costs of Palantir’s products.

Rochester Nurses Stood With Their Nonunion Co-Workers

July 31, 2026 Will McMahon, Labor Notes. , , , , , ,
What should union workers do when their nonunion co-workers come under attack? When our health care system in Rochester, New York, announced deep cuts to employee health benefits last November, “we started hearing from people right away,” said critical care nurse Carmen Camelio, president of the Rochester Union of Nurses & Allied Professionals. “And not just members. “We knew we had to do something, and we had to bring people in fast,” he said. In the span of days, union and nonunion workers came together to build a campaign that crossed job titles and worksites, forced the boss to backpedal, and inspired a wave of new organizing.

Rochester Nurses Stood With Their Nonunion Co-Workers

July 24, 2026 Will McMahon, Labor Notes. , , , ,
What should union workers do when their nonunion co-workers come under attack? When our health care system in Rochester, New York, announced deep cuts to employee health benefits last November, “we started hearing from people right away,” said critical care nurse Carmen Camelio, president of the Rochester Union of Nurses & Allied Professionals. “And not just members. “We knew we had to do something, and we had to bring people in fast,” he said. In the span of days, union and nonunion workers came together to build a campaign that crossed job titles and worksites, forced the boss to backpedal, and inspired a wave of new organizing.

Strike Six: New Orleans Nurses Fight For First Contract

July 6, 2026 Lee Abbott, Labor Notes. , , , ,
Two years and six strikes into bargaining—after switching law firms, cancelling negotiation sessions, firing union leaders, and allegedly backing a decertification effort—perhaps it’s dawning on University Medical Center in New Orleans that nurses don’t tire out easily. On May 1 the nurses held their sixth strike—at five days, the longest yet—and their picket lines keep growing. There was dance music blasting, spontaneous line-dancing, boiled crawfish and jambalaya. “We have first-time strikers out here who are brand new nurses!” said endoscopy nurse Hailey Dupré, a member of the bargaining team. “You understand that you can take your job into your hands and shape the future of it.”

More Than 4,000 Mass General Brigham Nurses To Strike On July 8

June 28, 2026 Beth Treffeisen, Portside. , , , ,
Approximately 4,500 nurses and clinicians at two Mass General Brigham units will walk off the job on July 8 unless hospital executives reach new labor agreements, setting the stage for what the union says will be the largest nurses’ strike in Massachusetts history. The Massachusetts Nurses Association issued the required 10-day strike notice, saying workers are seeking contracts that include competitive wages, affordable health insurance, investments in the permanent nursing workforce, and stronger protections for patient care. The planned walkout includes more than 4,000 registered nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and about 450 clinicians at Mass General Brigham Home Care.

‘Health Care, Not Wealth Care’: Michigan Nurses Continue Strike

May 28, 2026 Luis Martinez and G. V. Bourgeois, People's World. , , ,
Grand Blanc, Mich.igan—Anyone driving down Holly Rd. would be hard-pressed to miss the entrance to the newly acquired Henry Ford Hospital. In the eight months since Labor Day, local nurses have picketed outside with signs that read, “patient care over profits” and “it’s health care, not wealth care.”  This area is no stranger to collective bargaining; Detroit, the birthplace of the United Auto Workers (UAW), is a mere hour’s drive from where these nurses are carrying out one of the longest strikes in Michigan history. Organizers for Local 332 proudly channel that history as they stand against the second-largest health system in Michigan. 

Nurses Forge Alliances To Protect Patients From Immigration Crackdown

April 5, 2026 Marianne Dhenin, Truthout. , , ,
After the House of Representatives passed bills to send $10 billion in funding to the Department of Homeland Security in January, the nation’s largest union of registered nurses published a demand that Congress abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “Nurses demand the removal of immigration enforcement agents from communities, the abolition of ICE, and accountability for this administration’s crimes against all residents of the United States,” read the January 23 statement from National Nurses United (NNU), which represents over 225,000 registered nurses nationwide.

Patients Before Profits: 10,000 Teamsters Nurses Authorize Strike

March 20, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. , , , , ,
Detroit—After 16 months of contract negotiations and what workers describe as continued bad-faith tactics by Corewell Health, nearly 10,000 registered nurses (RN) have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The nurses, members of Teamsters Local 2024, announced on Tuesday that nearly 90% of voting members supported the strike authorization. They hope to send a clear message to the Michigan healthcare conglomerate that they are prepared to walk off the job if a fair contract isn’t secured. The strike authorization does not mean a walkout is imminent, but it gives the union’s bargaining team the power to call one if negotiations continue to stall, the union said.

San Jose Union Nurses Demand Healthcare For All, ICE Out

March 9, 2026 John Duroyan, Fight Back! News. , , , ,
San Jose, CA – On March 3, around 40 nurses affiliated with the California Nurses Association gathered after 2 p.m. near the Federal Building in downtown San Jose, to support healthcare for all and demanding that hospitals keep ICE out. The protest speakers included nurses who had worked in healthcare for decades. Monte Wright, a member of the California Nurses Association, who had been a nurse for 31 years, stated, “Most importantly, we're out to let the public know that healthcare's a human right, and that everybody deserves healthcare.”

Nurse Strike’s Focus Moves To Manhattan’s Richest Hospital Complex

February 14, 2026 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. , , , ,
The largest and longest nurses strike in the city’s history will continue at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospitals after nurses there decisively rejected the hospital chain’s contract offer 3,099 to 867. About 10,500 other nurses will start returning to work Saturday, ending the strike at three Manhattan hospitals run by Mt. Sinai and at Montefiore Medical Center facilities in the Bronx. Those nurses overwhelmingly voted to approve contracts that maintained staffing ratio language, beat back additional health care costs, and added some protection from workplace violence and misuse of artificial intelligence.

Nurses Reject Deal Without Enforceable Staffing Ratios

February 12, 2026 Gary Wilson, Struggle - La Lucha. , , , ,
Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday, Feb. 11, to reject a tentative contract agreement and continue their strike, now in its 31st day. Out of roughly 4,200 eligible nurses, 3,099 voted against the deal, and 867 voted in favor — a 78% rejection that repudiated hospital management and directly challenged the union’s top leadership. The rejected agreement included the same 12% raise over three years that nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore ratified. But it did not include enforceable staffing ratio language — the central demand of the strike and the provision that makes the NewYork-Presbyterian fight different from the other hospitals.

Kaiser Permanente Strike Expands As Pharmacy, Lab Workers Walk Out

February 11, 2026 Emily Olsen, Portside. , , , , ,
A major strike at Kaiser Permanente entered its third week on Monday, with thousands more workers joining the picket lines to protest what they argue are unsafe staffing levels at the California-based nonprofit giant. More than 3,000 pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants and clinical laboratory professionals in Southern California are joining the work stoppage, according to the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, which represents nurses and other workers already on strike.

Striking New York Nurses Brave Subzero Cold

February 5, 2026 A. J. Schumann and Sarah Hughes, Labor Notes. , , , ,
Fifteen thousand New York nurses are more than three weeks into their strike for a fairer contract. Yesterday members of the New York State Nurses Association braved below-freezing temperatures to march across the Brooklyn Bridge and deliver a message to City Hall. Hundreds of nurses joined together in Cadman Plaza Park, clad in cherry-red NYSNA beanies and holding aloft signs that read “Safe Staffing Saves Lives,” “Quality Healthcare for All,” and “Hospital Execs Literally Make Us Sick." As their procession stretched out across the bridge, chanting nurses were treated to applause from passersby and blaring honks from supportive onlookers below.

Iowa Nurses Join Teamsters In Hard-Fought Election Win

February 3, 2026 Belinda Carpenter, Labor Notes. , , ,
In a hospital, there is always another patient waiting. As soon as one bed empties, another is filled. At UnityPoint in Des Moines, nurses were expected to keep that system running no matter the cost to our patients, to our licenses, or to ourselves. By 2024 our hospital systems were routinely over capacity, patient wait times were astronomical, and staffing was dangerously thin. Nurses were expected to do more with less, while executives continued to reward themselves. That pressure pushed UnityPoint nurses to do something unprecedented: organize ourselves and become Teamsters.

Vigils For Alex Pretti Demand Real Change

February 2, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , , ,
Washington, DC - A Jan. 28 candlelight vigil at Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters in downtown D.C., one of many organized by National Nurses United, aimed to pressure the Senate to defeat the massive money bill funding the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) and the Border Patrol. Their agents killed VA nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis days before. “Stop the killing, stop the murders, stop the deportations, stop the raids and the white supremacy,” said local activist, Dante O’Hara, who organized speakers at the event. He’s an affiliate with the Federal Unionists Network, DMV.
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