RNs rallied today outside Maine Medical Center to demand ICE release Debora Kapisha, RN, who is being detained despite the fact that she is legally authorized to live & work in the country while she waits for her asylum case to be processed. ICE has no right to tear our communities apart!

Debora Kapisha, RN cares for and saves lives in the Portland community and now she's being held illegally by ICE. Nurses and community members are rallying tomorrow to demand her immediate release and for Maine Med to permanently sponsor her residency. https://bit.ly/4bxrcRr

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National Nurses United is the country's largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses, with more than 225,000 members nationwide.

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UNC management wants nurses to outbid each other on shifts to see how little they can pay you to work in bad conditions. 😡 Union nurses denounce this cost-cutting scheme to normalize gig work. What really changes a hospital is collective power, not working against each other.

Israel destroyed nearly all of Gaza's medicine warehouses, violating international law as part of its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. As nurses, we stand in solidarity with Gaza's health care workers. Health care workers must be protected. https://bit.ly/4brPnRe

Statement on Israeli bombings of medical supply warehouses

NNU castigated the Israeli government for destroying or badly damaging almost all of Gaza's medicine warehouses as part of its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and in flagrant violation of a United Nations resolution prohibiting the targe...

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What an incredible day of action fighting for guaranteed health care! ✊❤️ Nurses and activists took action at more than 100 congressional offices across the U.S. to send a clear message to our elected leaders: Medicare for All and nothing less!

At Jackson Park Hospital, management is trying to leave vital support position vacancies unfilled, leading to missed breaks, moral distress, and increased risk for our patients! We're holding a picket tomorrow to demand #SafeStaffing. ✊ https://bit.ly/44ZirMd

Nurses plan informational picket at Jackson Park Hospital to highlight patient safety concerns

Registered nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center (JPH) will hold an informational picket on Friday, July 31, 2026, to raise their concerns about short staffing of both nurses and ancillar...

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With congressional Republican's health care cuts, hospitals are seeing a big spike in ER visits and unpaid medical bills. Executives claim this was "unexpected," but nurses know better. We need to fund care, not warfare and billionaire tax breaks! https://nyti.ms/4xgYhcR

After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured Patients

More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.

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✍️ Earlier this month, union nurses in Wichita, KS got two more candidates to take our Patients Over Profits pledge! 560+ candidates have pledged to reject campaign contributions from the executives, lobbyists, and PACs affiliated with the corporate health care industry. ✊

Nurses stood strong in our communities today demanding full accountability, fair investigations, and prosecutions for the murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. ❤️ Reform of Trump's criminal paramilitary force isn't enough. Nurses say: #AbolishICE!

🕊️ Alex Pretti 🕊️ Renee Good 🕊️ Lorenzo Salgado Araujo 🕊️ Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero Nurses won't stand for ICE gunning down our patients with impunity in the streets! ICE out of our hospitals, our schools, and our communities. #AbolishICE

Tomorrow, all over the country, nurses will join protests to demand justice for ICE's murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. Join us. ✊ https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nurses-to-join-protests-demanding-justice-for-lorenzo-salgado-araujo-and-johan-sebastian

Nurses to join protests demanding justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero

National Nurses United announced today that RNs will be joining protests on Saturday, July 25 to demand justice for the murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

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Despite nurses continually calling on Maine Medical Center to cut ties with @PalantirTech, management refuses. So nurses held a press conference to let the public know just how dangerous this partnership is for our community. MaineHealth: It's time to #PurgePalantir!

One in three babies born in the D.C. is delivered at @medstarhealth.bsky.social Washington Hospital Center. Union nurses took action this week to demand the hospital keep the postpartum unit open!

Palantir has helped enable increasingly deadly encounters with immigration officers. Just last week, ICE murdered Mainer Johan Sebastian Durán Guerrero. Yet, MaineHealth refuses to cut its ties with the company? Nurses won't accept it! bit.ly/4px5GBX

MaineHealth management refuses to cut ties with Palantir

Maine Medical Center registered nurses and community allies will hold a press conference and rally on Thursday, July 23 in Portland to highlight their demand that MaineHealth cancel its contract with ...

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SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital terminated two highly skilled and dedicated nurses for participating in protected union activities. 😡 Nurses at the hospital are taking action on Wednesday to protest the firings and demand our coworkers are reinstated!

St. Louis nurses rally to demand Saint Louis University Hospital immediately reinstate unjustly terminated nurses

Registered nurses at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital (SLUH) in St. Louis, Mo., will hold a rally on Wednesday, July 22, to protest SSM Health’s termination of two highly skilled and dedicat...

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NNU President Jamie Brown, RN, will testify in front of Congress this week to demand our elected officials do what is both necessary AND popular and support #MedicareForAll. https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/congressional-progressive-caucus-shadow-hearing-july-22

Congressional Progressive Caucus Shadow Hearing: July 22 at 8:30 a.m.

National Nurses United President Jamie Brown, RN, will testify at the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ (CPC) shadow hearing, “Universal Healthcare: Now is the Time for Medicare for All,” on Wednesday...

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This administration unleashes a new terror on our communities every day because they want us to be so afraid that we stop organizing to hold them accountable. Our employers use the same tactics to try and union bust. But every time, they underestimate our resolve & solidarity.✊

Nurses marched and rallied outside U.S. Senator Dick Durbin's apartment in Chicago with #PurgePalantir signs. Nurses demand he return every dollar in Palantir donations. Palantir surveillance tech doesn't belong in our hospitals or our government!

Dozens of nurses protested Kaiser CEO Greg Adams speaking at @ahahospitals.bsky.social Leadership Summit this week. We can't stay silent while executives chase business trends like A.I. at the expense of patient care!

Kaiser nurses protest CEO’s appearance at AHA Leadership Summit

Registered nurses from Kaiser Permanente facilities across California protested today outside the American Hospital Association (AHA) Leadership Summit in Denver, Colo., where Kaiser CEO Greg A. Adams...

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"They are killing our neighbors in the streets, and no one in Washington seems prepared to hold them accountable." — NNU Executive Director Puneet Maharaj From Maine to Texas to Minnesota, nurses say: Abolish ICE!

National Nurses United condemns ICE murder in Maine

National Nurses United (NNU) is today condemning the latest murder by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, this time in Biddeford, Maine. NNU maintains that the only way forward on this ...

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Justice for Lorenzo! Join us for a National Mass Call for Justice as we organize a nationwide response to honor Lorenzo's life, support his family, and demand immediate accountability. July 15, 8:00 PM EST, register here: https://www.mobilize.us/disappearedinamerica/event/987861/

Trump's fuel blockade on Cuba is literally killing people because patients can't get the health care they need. Nurses are saying it loud and clear: End this humanitarian crisis, now!

Another tragic murder by ICE: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should still be alive. There is only way forward to combat this fascist authoritarian violence: Abolish ICE, now! www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...

National Nurses United condemns ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

National Nurses United condemns the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). NNU maintains that the only way forward on this issue of fascist authoritarian viole...

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The latest group of RNRN nurses are back home after an incredible trip to the Dominican Republic where volunteers provided basic medical care and health screenings to underserved communities in collaboration with OASV (Organizacion Amancio Samuel Villatoro). ❤️

Why nurses have rescinded our endorsement of Graham Platner. ⬇️

Our new study shows how dangerous Trump's health care cuts are: More than 600 hospitals across the U.S are financially vulnerable to cuts or closures. That means hundreds of communities stand to lose access to life-saving care! This is a 🚨red alert!🚨 https://bit.ly/4wtlZlA

Federal cuts threaten 600 financially vulnerable hospitals nationwide

More than 600 financially vulnerable hospitals across the United States are set to experience an aggregate increase in financial deficits of between 50 and 75 percent. The financial losses, estimated in a new research study, present an extreme risk of c...

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When we're assigned too many patients, we can't give them the care they deserve: Call lights go unanswered, medication is delayed, and we see an increase in patient falls. 😭 We are on strike because this is all preventable — if @ascension-org.bsky.social listened to nurses and staffed up!

While @ascension-org.bsky.social promotes itself as a ministry devoted to healing, nurses know the truth: It acts like a billion-dollar health care corporation more devoted to profits than to patients. Nurses at Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore are on strike to demand better!

Wichita nurses at @ascension-org.bsky.social have demanded workplace violence prevention for years. Last month, someone brought a gun to the St. Joseph emergency department and took their own life. Nurses and our patients deserve better. They've failed to fix the problems, so we're striking.

An important reminder on the 250th anniversary of America's independence: Nurses will not stand by as the Trump administration attacks our democratic rights. We are defenders of our communities and defenders of democracy. ❤️🤍💙