nurses

On the picket line

Immigrant workers hunger strike  A new hunger strike has broken out at a migrant prison, the Northwest Detention Center in…

January 19, 2024

ON STRIKE: 1,800 Portland Prudential nurses

Portland, Oregon Nurses and clinicians marched off the job June 19 for a weeklong strike after an overwhelming 97% strike…

June 30, 2023

Pennsylvania nurses call a penalty on hospital giant

Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP), the union representing nurses across the state, launched a scathing social-media…

February 23, 2023

Nurses’ union marches in Oregon

Oregon City, Oregon Nurses from the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) working at Providence Oregon hospitals marched May 11 from Providence…

May 18, 2022

Pandemic exposes U.S. health care crisis

In the book “The Great Influenza: The Deadliest Pandemic in History” by John Barry, written in 2005 about the so-called…

February 3, 2022

As COVID-19 rages, nurses organize day of action

Members of the largest nurses’ union, National Nurses United (NNU), as well as RNs from other unions, organized A Day…

January 20, 2022

On the picket line

Gig workers are essential workers As pandemic business closures escalated in 2019-2020, many immigrant workers who lost jobs at hotels…

June 10, 2021