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Olympia Fields nurses to hold one-day strike, Saint Mary's nurses to picket on September 15
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Sept. 13 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Olympia Fields nurses to hold one-day strike, Saint Mary's nurses to picket on September 15
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Registered nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois, will hold a strike for one day on September 15 to protest the administration's retaliation against nurses who speak up and fight for their patients, announced National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC), an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of registered nurses in the nation. Prime
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Sept. 13 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Olympia Fields nurses to hold one-day strike, Saint Mary's nurses to picket on September 15
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Registered nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois, will hold a strike for one day on September 15 to protest the administration's retaliation against nurses who speak up and fight for their patients, announced National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC), an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of registered nurses in the nation. PrimeHealthcare management suspended six nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital and one nurse at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, and fired six nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago.
Since the suspension of the Olympia Fields and Saint Francis nurses, two of the suspended Olympia Fields nurses have been fired as well as a nurse at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, and three nurses at Central Maine Medical Center have been suspended -all for speaking up for their patients.
In solidarity with nurses at Olympia Fields, nurses at two Prime hospitals will hold informational pickets that same day on September 15: Saint Mary of Nazareth in Chicago and Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine. Also, nurses and health care workers at three Prime hospitals in two states will hold sympathy strikes that day: RNs at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nev. and West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, California, and nurses and health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, California. In total, more than 2,800 nurses and health care workers will be either striking or picketing on September 15.
"We are striking to protest Prime Healthcare's unlawful suspension of nurses and firing of nurses at Olympia Fields and at Saint Francis Hospital," said Jen Peterson, RN in the outpatient surgery unit at Olympia Fields Hospital. "We will be out on the strike line to demand that Prime reinstate the suspended and fired nurses and to reinstate the nurses fired at Saint Mary of Nazareth in Chicago."
National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States with more than 225,000 members nationwide. NNU affiliates include California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, DC Nurses Association, Michigan Nurses Association, Minnesota Nurses Association, and New York State Nurses Association.
Olympia Fields strike
* Who: Registered nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital
* What: Strike to protest suspension of six Olympia Fields RNs and one St. Francis RN
* When: Tuesday, September 15, 7 a.m - September 16, 6:59 a.m.
* Where: Olympia Fields Hospital, 20201 South Crawford Ave. Olympia Fields, Illinois.
Saint Mary informational picket
* Who: Registered nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital (Chicago)
* What: Picket in solidarity with Olympia Fields nurses
* When: Tuesday, September 15, 7-10 a.m.
* Where: Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital, 2233 W Division Street, Chicago, IL, 60622
"We will be picketing in solidarity with our colleagues on strike at Olympia Fields," said Kyle Schutter, RN in the emergency department at Saint Mary of Nazareth. "We are demanding that Prime reinstate the suspended and fired nurses and to reinstate the six nurses at Saint Mary's who were fired this summer. We are proud to take collective action with nurses across the country and stand up against Prime's unlawful actions."
Nurses across the country are organizing and speaking up systemwide against Prime Healthcare because Prime endangers patients and nurses by putting profits above all else. RNs at three Prime Healthcare facilities, Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois, Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, and Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine, filed union election petitions on August 24 because they know that only through unionization can they force Prime to address their concerns about patient care and safe staffing.
On September 3, nurses at four Prime hospitals across three states -West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, California; Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, N.V.; Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago, Illinois; and nurses and health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, California. -held one-day strikes to protest Prime's refusal to address their deep concerns about patient care and safe staffing.
Nurses in Nevada, Illinois, and Maine are represented or seeking representation by NNOC. NNOC represents 9,000 nurses in Chicagoland, including RNs at Cook County Health, UChicago, and the VA. Nurses in California are represented by California Nurses Association, an affiliate of NNU. The health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center are represented by Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union.
The RNs are part of a national union movement to fight for safe staffing and optimal patient care throughout the entire Prime Healthcare system. The suspensions and firing are just one aspect of Prime's shoddy treatment of its workers. Learn more about Prime's crimes at crimehealthcare.com.
Prime's Profiteering
The conditions driving Prime nurses to take unprecedented collective action at their hospitals are part of a broader pattern of Prime negligence and cutting services despite its profits.
Prime has a history of acquiring hospitals and then cutting services after it promised to maintain them.
* On September 1, 2026, Prime announced that it would suspend obstetric services at Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Mercy Medical Center in Aurora, and Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago and consolidate them at Saint Mary of Nazareth in Chicago and Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood accused Prime of putting "profits over patients" and of having "no plans" to help patients travel miles to receive obstetrics care.
* Less than two months after it acquired St. Mary's Hospital in Kankakee, Illinois, in March 2025, Prime shut down the hospital's obstetrics, gynecology, childbirth and delivery services and voluntarily gave up the facility's Level II trauma designation, resulting in an injunction filed by the Kankakee County State's Attorney, claiming that Prime was dishonest about keeping all services open for 18-24 months after acquisition.
* Prime cut services in May 2025 at St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Illinois. and in April 2025 at Mercy Medical Center in Aurora, Illinois., soon after acquisition, leading to a letter to Prime CEO Prem Reddy from Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin accusing the company of violating its commitments to maintain services to meet community needs.
Prime greatly benefits financially from Prime Healthcare Foundation, its nonprofit hospital system.
* In 2024, Prime Healthcare Foundation gave more than $104 million in business to firms owned by the Reddy family-Prime Healthcare Services Inc., Prime Healthcare Management, and Bio-Med Services, Inc., according to its Form 990. CEO Prem Reddy is the founder of Prime Healthcare.
* Prime's nonprofit hospital system only provided $3.5 million in uncompensated charity care for patients in 2024, about 0.4 percent of the foundation's expenses.
* In 2024, Prime Healthcare Foundation claimed more than $78 million in debts they tried to collect from patients who qualified for charity care.
National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States with more than 225,000 members nationwide. NNU affiliates include California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, DC Nurses Association, Michigan Nurses Association, Minnesota Nurses Association, and New York State Nurses Association.
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Original text here: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/olympia-fields-nurses-to-hold-one-day-strike-saint-marys-nurses-to-picket-on-september-15
Nurses to sympathy strike, picket on September 15 at five Prime Healthcare hospitals in four states
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Sept. 13 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Nurses to sympathy strike, picket on September 15 at five Prime Healthcare hospitals in four states
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Registered nurses at three Prime Healthcare hospitals in two states -Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada; West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, California; and nurses and health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, California -will hold a sympathy strike for one day on September 15 in solidarity with nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Sept. 13 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Nurses to sympathy strike, picket on September 15 at five Prime Healthcare hospitals in four states
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Registered nurses at three Prime Healthcare hospitals in two states -Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada; West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, California; and nurses and health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, California -will hold a sympathy strike for one day on September 15 in solidarity with nurses at Olympia Fields Hospitalin Olympia Fields, Illinois who are striking on the same day to protest the suspension of six nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital, announced California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC), an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of registered nurses in the nation.
Since the suspension of the Olympia Fields nurses, two of the suspended nurses have been fired as well as a nurse at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, and three nurses at Central Maine Medical Center have been suspended -all for speaking up for their patients. Earlier this summer, Prime Healthcare management fired six nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago.
Nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago, and at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine, will hold informational pickets in solidarity with Olympia Fields RNs on the same day. In total, more than 2,800 nurses and health care workers will be either striking or picketing on September 15.
"We are proud to be striking in sympathy with our brave RN colleagues at Olympia Fields Hospital," said Michelle Gaffney, RN in the intensive care unit at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, California "Prime must stop its unlawful activities and reinstate the nurses it has suspended or fired for speaking up for patients. We will continue to demand justice for our nurses until Prime does the right thing."
Redding, California facility
* Who: Registered nurses and health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center (Redding)
* What: One-day sympathy strike in solidarity with Olympia Fields Hospital nurses
* When: Tuesday, September 15, 6 a.m. to September 16, 5:59 a.m.
* Where: Shasta Regional Medical Center, 1100 Butte St. Redding CA
Anaheim, California facility
* Who: Registered nurses at West Anaheim Medical Center (Anaheim)
* What: One-day sympathy strike in solidarity with Olympia Fields Hospital nurses
* When: Tuesday, September 15, 7 a.m to September 16, 6:59 a.m.
* Where: West Anaheim Medical Center, 3033 W. Orange Ave., Anaheim CA
Reno, Nevada facility
* Who: Registered nurses at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center (Reno)
* What: One-day sympathy strike in solidarity with Olympia Fields Hospital nurses
* When: Tuesday, September 15, 6:45 am to September 16, 6:44 a.m.
* Where: Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center, 235 W. 6th St. Reno NV,
Nurses across the country are organizing and speaking up systemwide against Prime Healthcare because Prime endangers patients and nurses by putting profits above all else. RNs at three Prime Healthcare facilities, Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois, Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, and Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine, filed union election petitions on August 24 because they know that only through unionization can they force Prime to address their concerns about patient care and safe staffing.
On September. 3, nurses at four Prime hospitals across three states -West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, California; Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada; Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago, Illinois and nurses and health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, California -held one-day strikes to protest Prime's refusal to address their deep concerns about patient care and safe staffing. Nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth voted to join NNOC in June.
Nurses in Nevada, Illinois, and Maine are represented or seeking representation by NNOC. NNOC represents 9,000 nurses in Chicagoland, including RNs at Cook County Health, UChicago, and the VA. Nurses in California are represented by California Nurses Association, an affiliate of NNU. The health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center are represented by Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union.
The RNs are part of a national union movement to fight for safe staffing and optimal patient care throughout the entire Prime Healthcare system. The suspensions and firing are just one aspect of Prime's shoddy treatment of its workers. Learn more about Prime's crimes at crimehealthcare.com.
Prime's Profiteering
The conditions driving Prime nurses to take unprecedented collective action at their hospitals are part of a broader pattern of Prime negligence and cutting services despite its profits.
Prime has a history of acquiring hospitals and then cutting services after it promised to maintain them.
* On September 1, 2026, Prime announced that it would suspend obstetric services at Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Mercy Medical Center in Aurora, and Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago and consolidate them at Saint Mary of Nazareth in Chicago and Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood accused Prime of putting "profits over patients" and of having "no plans" to help patients travel miles to receive obstetrics care.
* Less than two months after it acquired St. Mary's Hospital in Kankakee, Illinois, in March 2025, Prime shut down the hospital's obstetrics, gynecology, childbirth and delivery services and voluntarily gave up the facility's Level II trauma designation, resulting in an injunction filed by the Kankakee County State's Attorney, claiming that Prime was dishonest about keeping all services open for 18-24 months after acquisition.
* Prime cut services in May 2025 at St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Illinois and in April 2025 at Mercy Medical Center in Aurora, Illinois, soon after acquisition, leading to a letter to Prime CEO Prem Reddy from Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin accusing the company of violating its commitments to maintain services to meet community needs.
Prime greatly benefits financially from Prime Healthcare Foundation, its nonprofit hospital system.
* In 2024, Prime Healthcare Foundation gave more than $104 million in business to firms owned by the Reddy family-Prime Healthcare Services Inc., Prime Healthcare Management, and Bio-Med Services, Inc., according to its Form 990. CEO Prem Reddy is the founder of Prime Healthcare.
* Prime's nonprofit hospital system only provided $3.5 million in uncompensated charity care for patients in 2024, about 0.4 percent of the foundation's expenses.
* In 2024, Prime Healthcare Foundation claimed more than $78 million in debts they tried to collect from patients who qualified for charity care.
National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States with more than 225,000 members nationwide. NNU affiliates include California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, DC Nurses Association, Michigan Nurses Association, Minnesota Nurses Association, and New York State Nurses Association.
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Original text here: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nurses-to-sympathy-strike-and-picket-on-september-15-at-five-prime-healthcare-hospitals-in-four-states
Central Maine Medical Center nurses to hold picket in solidarity with striking nurses in Illinois
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Sept. 13 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Central Maine Medical Center nurses to hold picket in solidarity with striking nurses in Illinois
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Registered nurses at Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC) in Lewiston, Maine will hold an informational picket on Tuesday, September 15 in solidarity with nurse colleagues within the Prime Healthcare hospital system who are on strike on the same day at Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois to protest the suspension of six nurses at Olympia Fields announced Maine
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Sept. 13 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Central Maine Medical Center nurses to hold picket in solidarity with striking nurses in Illinois
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Registered nurses at Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC) in Lewiston, Maine will hold an informational picket on Tuesday, September 15 in solidarity with nurse colleagues within the Prime Healthcare hospital system who are on strike on the same day at Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois to protest the suspension of six nurses at Olympia Fields announced MaineState Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (MSNA/NNOC). NNOC is an affiliate of National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses in the country. Like their striking coworkers in Illinois, CMMC nurses also want to unionize and will vote later this month.
Since the suspension of the Olympia Fields nurses, two of the suspended nurses have been fired as well as a nurse at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, and three nurses at Central Maine Medical Center have been suspended -all for speaking up for their patients. Earlier this summer, Prime Healthcare management fired six nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago.
Nurses and health care workers at three Prime hospitals in two states will hold sympathy strikes on September 15 in solidarity with their striking RN colleagues at Olympia Fields, who are protesting nurses who were suspended or fired : RNs at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nev. and West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, California, and nurses and health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, California. Also, nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth in Chicago will hold an informational picket on September 15. In total, more than 2,800 nurses and health care workers will be either striking or picketing on September 15.
"We are united with nurses at other Prime Healthcare hospitals," said Cynthia Gahagan, RN in the operating room at CMMC. "We will be picketing in solidarity with nurses at Olympia Fields who are striking on September 15. Nurses shouldn't have been suspended or fired for speaking up for their patients. Prime must do the right thing and reinstate all nurses."
* Who: Registered nurses at Central Maine Medical Center
* What: Informational picket in solidarity with striking nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois.
* When: Tuesday, September 15, 7:30-10 a.m.
* Where: Central Maine Medical Center, 300 Main St., Lewiston, Maine
Nurses across the country are organizing and speaking up systemwide against Prime Healthcare because Prime endangers patients and nurses by putting profits above all else. RNs at three Prime Healthcare facilities, Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois, Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, and Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine, filed union election petitions on August 24 because they know that only through unionization can they force Prime to address their concerns about patient care and safe staffing. CMMC nurses' union election is scheduled for September 24. Olympia Fields RNs' election date is September 23.
On September 3, nurses at four Prime hospitals across three states -West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, California; Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada; Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago, Illinois; and nurses and health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, California -held one-day strikes to protest Prime's refusal to address their deep concerns about patient care and safe staffing. Nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth voted to join NNOC in June.
Nurses in Nevada, Illinois, and Maine are represented or seeking representation by NNOC. NNOC represents 9,000 nurses in Chicagoland, including RNs at Cook County Health, UChicago, and the VA. MSNA/NNOC represents 4,000 nurses and health care workers in Maine. Nurses in California are represented by California Nurses Association, an affiliate of NNU. The health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center are represented by Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union.
The RNs are part of a national union movement to fight for safe staffing and optimal patient care throughout the entire Prime Healthcare system. The suspensions and firing are just one aspect of Prime's shoddy treatment of its workers. Learn more about Prime's crimes at crimehealthcare.com.
Prime's Profiteering
The conditions driving Prime nurses to take unprecedented collective action at their hospitals are part of a broader pattern of Prime negligence and cutting services despite its profits.
Prime has a history of acquiring hospitals and then cutting services after it promised to maintain them.
* On September 1, 2026, Prime announced that it would suspend obstetric services at Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Mercy Medical Center in Aurora, and Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago and consolidate them at Saint Mary of Nazareth in Chicago and Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood accused Prime of putting "profits over patients" and of having "no plans" to help patients travel miles to receive obstetrics care.
* Less than two months after it acquired St. Mary's Hospital in Kankakee, Illinois, in March 2025, Prime shut down the hospital's obstetrics, gynecology, childbirth and delivery services and voluntarily gave up the facility's Level II trauma designation, resulting in an injunction filed by the Kankakee County State's Attorney, claiming that Prime was dishonest about keeping all services open for 18-24 months after acquisition.
* Prime cut services in May 2025 at St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Illinois and in April 2025 at Mercy Medical Center in Aurora, Illinois, soon after acquisition, leading to a letter to Prime CEO Prem Reddy from Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin accusing the company of violating its commitments to maintain services to meet community needs.
Prime greatly benefits financially from Prime Healthcare Foundation, its nonprofit hospital system.
* In 2024, Prime Healthcare Foundation gave more than $104 million in business to firms owned by the Reddy family-Prime Healthcare Services Inc., Prime Healthcare Management, and Bio-Med Services, Inc., according to its Form 990. CEO Prem Reddy is the founder of Prime Healthcare.
* Prime's nonprofit hospital system only provided $3.5 million in uncompensated charity care for patients in 2024, about 0.4 percent of the foundation's expenses.
* In 2024, Prime Healthcare Foundation claimed more than $78 million in debts they tried to collect from patients who qualified for charity care.
Maine State Nurses Association is part of National Nurses Organizing Committee, representing 4,000 nurses and other caregivers from Portland to Fort Kent. NNOC is an affiliate of National Nurses United, the largest and fastest-growing labor union of registered nurses in the United States with more than 225,000 members nationwide.
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Original text here: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/central-maine-medical-center-nurses-to-hold-picket-in-solidarity-with-striking-nurses-in-illinois
NABTU Statement on the 25th Anniversary of September 11
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The AFL-CIO North America's Building Trades Unions issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2026:
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NABTU Statement on the 25th Anniversary of September 11
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- September 11, 2026 -- North America's Building Trades (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey issued the following statement:
"Today, the entire Building Trades family pauses to remember the nearly 3,000 lives taken on September 11, 2001, and the families who continue to carry the pain of that profound loss.
"For our unions and our members, this anniversary is deeply personal. We lost brothers
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The AFL-CIO North America's Building Trades Unions issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2026:
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NABTU Statement on the 25th Anniversary of September 11
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- September 11, 2026 -- North America's Building Trades (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey issued the following statement:
"Today, the entire Building Trades family pauses to remember the nearly 3,000 lives taken on September 11, 2001, and the families who continue to carry the pain of that profound loss.
"For our unions and our members, this anniversary is deeply personal. We lost brothersand sisters that day. In the days and months that followed, thousands of heroic Building Trades members answered the call, working alongside first responders and recovery personnel at Ground Zero, the Pentagon, and throughout the affected communities.
"With extraordinary courage and selflessness, they worked through unimaginable conditions to help recover the fallen, clear the devastation, and begin the long process of rebuilding. Many made the ultimate sacrifice. Others continue to live with the physical and emotional consequences of their service.
"Twenty-five years later, we honor all who were lost, all who answered the call, and all who helped our nation begin to heal. Their courage and sacrifice will forever remain part of the legacy of the Building Trades. We remember them, we honor them, and we will never forget."
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Original text here: https://nabtu.org/press_releases/nabtu-statement-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-september-11/
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AFL-CIO Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of 9/11, Calls for Health Care Coverage for Responders and Survivors
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The AFL-CIO issued the following news release:
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AFL-CIO Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of 9/11, Calls for Health Care Coverage for Responders and Survivors
September 11, 2026
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement to mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks:
On this solemn anniversary, the labor movement honors the memory of all those killed in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, including the more than 600 members of our union family whom we continue to mourn today. In the aftermath of the devastation, as the nation mourned, working
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The AFL-CIO issued the following news release:
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AFL-CIO Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of 9/11, Calls for Health Care Coverage for Responders and Survivors
September 11, 2026
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement to mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks:
On this solemn anniversary, the labor movement honors the memory of all those killed in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, including the more than 600 members of our union family whom we continue to mourn today. In the aftermath of the devastation, as the nation mourned, workingpeople across the country answered the call. We saw the very best in the flight crews of the hijacked planes who lost their lives on the job; firefighters, police officers and other first responders who took the ultimate risk to deliver emergency care to victims; and the maintenance, construction, hospitality, restaurant, and other union members and nonunion workers who helped respond, repair and rebuild in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
For the hundreds of thousands of responders and other survivors who were exposed to toxic dust after they were told it was safe to resume their lives, the physical toll has endured long after the dust settled. Twenty-five years later, we know that more firefighters have died from 9/11-related cancers and other illnesses than those who died on the day itself--a painful lesson in the long-term consequences of occupational and environmental exposures.
But for too long, the federal government has taken the opposite approach. It has denied repeated petitions from experts and doctors of the World Trade Center Health Program to approve coverage for additional health conditions, like cardiac effects and autoimmune diseases, that are now emerging. We should commemorate this day by meeting the needs of 9/11 responders and survivors who rely on this program but are left without necessary medical care, and by committing to recognize and treat all 9/11-related diseases and conditions. And we should take important steps to secure aviation workers' safety on the job, including retrofitting existing passenger aircraft with secondary barriers.
Twenty-five years ago, countless Americans saw their communities in crisis and did what working people do best: they jumped in to help their neighbors. The labor movement will continue to stand in solidarity and honor their legacy.
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Original text here: https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-commemorates-25th-anniversary-911-calls-health-care-coverage-responders-and
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Nurses say it is time for SEIU's Dave Regan to resign
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Sept. 11 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Nurses say it is time for SEIU's Dave Regan to resign
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California Nurses Association today called on SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West President Dave Regan to resign following media allegations of inappropriate, aggressive behavior and threats targeting other labor staff to support the Prop. 40 billionaire tax initiative.
"The labor movement has no space for this behavior," said CNA Executive Director Puneet Maharaj. "At a time when we are in an existential working-class
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Sept. 11 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Nurses say it is time for SEIU's Dave Regan to resign
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California Nurses Association today called on SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West President Dave Regan to resign following media allegations of inappropriate, aggressive behavior and threats targeting other labor staff to support the Prop. 40 billionaire tax initiative.
"The labor movement has no space for this behavior," said CNA Executive Director Puneet Maharaj. "At a time when we are in an existential working-classfight to protect workers from the Trump administration, the billionaire class, and employers aligned with them, we need labor leaders who are a model of the kind of just and caring society the labor movement wants to build. Regan represents the antithesis of this model, he should step down, immediately."
"As an organization that predominantly organizes and represents women, and works to develop women leaders in the labor movement, Regan's misogynist behavior against women is particularly offensive," she added.
Maharaj said CNA endorses the statement from SEIU California. "Like so many others in our movement, SEIU California will always demand respect, fairness, gender equity and racial justice - period," SEIU California said in a social media post. "Our movement is bigger than any one person. It's about the millions of workers building power to put food on the table, care for their families, and change things for the better." Others in the California labor movement are reportedly preparing similar statements.
Quoting a number of sources, the San Francisco Chronicle Friday, September 11, reported that Regan "bullied, intimidated and attempted to extort fellow labor leaders in his quest to marshal support for the ballot measure."
The Chronicle said it determined from its own investigation that Regan sought "to extort an endorsement for the billionaire tax from the SEIU State Council," and attempted to "defame and bullied Tia Orr, SEIU's executive director."
Further, the Chronicle said Regan has had a history of physically harassing behavior, including a 2009 incident in which he reported challenged a top SEIU state official for not complying with his wishes about an earlier ballot measure. He "kicked in her office door, and 'jacked' her 'against the wall,'" the Chronicle report says.
CNA has a long history of differences with Regan's political machinations, including deals cut with employers seeking to cut back California's safe staffing law and requirements for upgraded hospital seismic safety standards. "His cynical actions have repeatedly prioritized his narrow self-interest at the risk of harm to patients and other health care workers," said Maharaj. "When he is also engaging in personal acts of bullying, intimidation, and physical aggression, we have all seen enough. It is long past time for him to go."
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the nation with more than 100,000 members in more than 200 facilities throughout California and more than 225,000 RNs nationwide.
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Original text here: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nurses-say-it-is-time-for-seiu-dave-regan-to-resign
Bimbo Bakeries Teamsters Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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Bimbo Bakeries Teamsters Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract
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Press Contact: Maura Drumm Phone: (215) 510-3735 Email: mdrumm@teamster.org
(WASHINGTON) - Members of Teamsters Local 170 and Local 633 at Bimbo Bakeries have ratified a new agreement by an overwhelming 90 percent. Earlier this month, the sales and warehouse workers authorized a strike after the company refused to offer area standards or real wage adjustments.
"Nothing is stronger than Teamsters solidarity,
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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Bimbo Bakeries Teamsters Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract
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Press Contact: Maura Drumm Phone: (215) 510-3735 Email: mdrumm@teamster.org
(WASHINGTON) - Members of Teamsters Local 170 and Local 633 at Bimbo Bakeries have ratified a new agreement by an overwhelming 90 percent. Earlier this month, the sales and warehouse workers authorized a strike after the company refused to offer area standards or real wage adjustments.
"Nothing is stronger than Teamsters solidarity,and our members proved it throughout negotiations with Bimbo," said Jeff Padellaro, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 633 and Director of the Teamsters Brewery, Bakery, and Soft Drink Conference. "The determination of the workforce pushed Bimbo to recognize the important contributions of the Teamsters. We have won an agreement that all members should be proud of."
"Rank-and-file Teamsters never gave up the idea that they deserved better than what they were being offered," said Shannon R. George, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 170. "Our members were prepared to strike to win what they're worth. Workers have shown Bimbo and all other employers what we can accomplish when we are a united group."
The new six-year agreement includes pension improvements, wage increases, and reduced health care costs. The contract also offers strong job security protections.
"We were tired of management taking for granted the work we do that makes Bimbo so successful," said Jason Morin, a shop steward at Bimbo Bakeries and member of Local 633. "We were ready to strike if needed and are proud that we have a secured a powerful new deal."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents over 1.3 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on X @Teamsters and on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
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Original text here: https://teamster.org/2026/09/bimbo-bakeries-teamsters-overwhelmingly-ratify-contract/
