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Watsonville Community Hospital nurses rally to save NICU
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Aug. 28 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Watsonville Community Hospital nurses rally to save NICU
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Nurses at Watsonville Community Hospital (WCH) in Watsonville, California, will hold a rally on Monday, Aug. 31, to protest the Watsonville Community Hospital Administration and Pajaro Valley Health Care District Board of Supervisor's closure of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) services. Nurses at WCH are represented by California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU).
"Vulnerable newborns and their
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Aug. 28 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Watsonville Community Hospital nurses rally to save NICU
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Nurses at Watsonville Community Hospital (WCH) in Watsonville, California, will hold a rally on Monday, Aug. 31, to protest the Watsonville Community Hospital Administration and Pajaro Valley Health Care District Board of Supervisor's closure of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) services. Nurses at WCH are represented by California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU).
"Vulnerable newborns and theirfamilies rely on our public safety net hospital," said Roseann Farris, RN from Watsonville in the critical care unit. "Nurses are calling on the administration and Hospital Board to reverse this decision, invest in staffing, and immediately reopen our NICU. Our community deserves a fully functioning hospital with access to life-saving care. Nurses took an oath to advocate for our patients, and we will not be silent when their health is put at risk."
Who: Watsonville Community Hospital nurses
What: Reopen our NICU Speak Out and press conference
When: Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, 12 p.m.
Where: Watsonville Community Hospital, 75 Nielson St., Watsonville, California
The sudden closure of the NICU puts the lives of newborns at serious risk. In July, Watsonville nurses had multiple meetings with hospital management and Interim CEO Tim Moran to discuss the planned closure. The nurses also held a Speak Out at the hospital's monthly Board of Directors' meeting on July 29 to urge the District to put patients before profits and reopen the NICU for our community's vulnerable newborns.
This is the latest blow to patient care at the facility. WCH administration has merged some units and threatened to close others. The NICU closure is the newest and perhaps most alarming service shutdown yet.
The only other full service acute care hospital in Santa Cruz County is Dignity Health's Dominican Hospital, leaving WCH patients with only one option for NICU care in the county. The next closest options are in Monterrey, creating transportation time that could threaten patients.
The county's agricultural workers, many immigrants and low-income, will be left without access to maternal care services in their vicinity without the WCH NICU on top of existing service cuts such as the merger of medical surgical and telemetry units or the closure of critical care unit services. CNA union nurses are taking a stand to ensure equal care and access is maintained.
CNA/NNU represents approximately 300 registered nurses at Watsonville Community Hospital.
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/watsonville-community-hospital-nurses-rally-to-save-nicu
NEA President Becky Pringle: As They Return to School for the New Year, Students Should Not Have to Fear for Their Safety or That of Their Families
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The National Education Association issued the following statement by President Becky Pringle:
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NEA President Becky Pringle: As They Return to School for the New Year, Students Should Not Have to Fear for Their Safety or that of Their Families
National Education Association (NEA) President Becky Pringle issued the following statement regarding continuing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) actions near or around sensitive locations like public schools and bus stops that are causing chaos and sending chilling
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The National Education Association issued the following statement by President Becky Pringle:
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NEA President Becky Pringle: As They Return to School for the New Year, Students Should Not Have to Fear for Their Safety or that of Their Families
National Education Association (NEA) President Becky Pringle issued the following statement regarding continuing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) actions near or around sensitive locations like public schools and bus stops that are causing chaos and sending chillingeffects to families and students.
"For most of us, back-to-school means fresh chances to learn, make new friends, and reconnect with our favorite educators. For some, however, especially our most vulnerable students in diverse communities across this country, the back-to-school experience is turning into uncertainty, chaos, and fear at the hands of the Trump administration's ICE and DHS agents.
"These unnecessary and disruptive actions at the hands of ICE and DHS have no place in our communities. They are cruel and actively interfering with students' ability to learn and educators' ability to teach. Attendance, learning, and a student's basic sense of security all depend on knowing that the walk to the bus stop and the school day itself are safe.
"For those who do in fact make it to school, they sit in classrooms fearing that they will return to an empty home, with no adult there to meet them at the end of the day. Or worse, as we have seen in Danbury, Connecticut, this week, parents and caretakers were detained and disappeared as they dropped off their kids at school buses. They fear that walking to the bus stop means walking toward danger. No student should have to carry this fear into the classroom. These events and experiences shake communities to their core.
"NEA and allies took the Trump administration to court in September 2025 to restore protections that it eliminated when they entered office. Those protections kept immigration enforcement away from sensitive locations such as public schools, places of worship, and hospitals. As we await a decision on the case, NEA and its members will continue to show up for our students and their families wherever they are, and we will stand up for our public schools and communities when they are under attack."
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The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional employee organization, representing more than 3 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators, students preparing to become teachers, healthcare workers, and public employees. Learn more at www.nea.org.
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Original text here: https://www.nea.org/about-nea/media-center/press-releases/nea-president-becky-pringle-they-return-school-new-year-students-should-not-have-fear-their-safety
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Largest Federal Employee Union Endorses Missouri's Fred Wellman for Election to Congress
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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Largest Federal Employee Union Endorses Missouri's Fred Wellman for Election to Congress
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AFGE says Wellman is a military veteran who will fight for a strong federal workforce
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -The American Federation of Government Employees today announced its endorsement of Fred Wellman for election to Congress representing Missouri's 2nd Congressional District in the 2026 election. Wellman won the district wide primary in August. The general election
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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Largest Federal Employee Union Endorses Missouri's Fred Wellman for Election to Congress
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AFGE says Wellman is a military veteran who will fight for a strong federal workforce
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -The American Federation of Government Employees today announced its endorsement of Fred Wellman for election to Congress representing Missouri's 2nd Congressional District in the 2026 election. Wellman won the district wide primary in August. The general electionis Nov. 3.
Wellman, a 22-year military veteran and the son of a veteran and longtime federal employee, understands that mission failure often begins when leaders fail to provide the workforce and resources necessary to accomplish the mission. Wellman has committed to rebuilding federal capacity and standing with the public servants who keep our country running.
"Fred knows firsthand that you cannot serve our veterans, support our military, or deliver the services Americans depend on without a strong, respected federal workforce. At a time when federal employees and their collective bargaining rights have been under unprecedented attack, we need lawmakers who will stand up, speak out, and fight alongside them. We believe Fred will be that kind of representative for Missouri's 2nd Congressional District," AFGE District 9 National Vice President Shane Reedy said.
Nearly 53,000 federal employees live in Missouri -caring for veterans, supporting the military, and making sure Social Security recipients get their benefits accurately and on time.
AFGE is the largest federal employee union in the country, representing more than 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers in all functions of government. AFGE represents more than 56,000 federal employees in District 9, which includes Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
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Original text here: https://www.afge.org/link/ee5be8561cb94a0ca2f30031953f22fb.aspx
Kaiser nurses to hold informational pickets at 22 California hospitals
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Aug. 28 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Kaiser nurses to hold informational pickets at 22 California hospitals
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Nurses at Kaiser Permanente facilities across the state of California will hold informational pickets on Sept. 1 to protest the Kaiser management's refusal to address RNs' deep concerns about safe staffing and AI protections. More than 25,000 nurses working for Kaiser are represented by California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU).
Kaiser nurses are in the early stages of negotiations
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Aug. 28 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Kaiser nurses to hold informational pickets at 22 California hospitals
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Nurses at Kaiser Permanente facilities across the state of California will hold informational pickets on Sept. 1 to protest the Kaiser management's refusal to address RNs' deep concerns about safe staffing and AI protections. More than 25,000 nurses working for Kaiser are represented by California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU).
Kaiser nurses are in the early stages of negotiationson a new union contract and want the public to understand their key issues. The RNs urge management to invest in nursing staff and agree to a contract that provides protections against untested and unregulated implementations of artificial intelligence technologies, all in order to prioritize patients over Kaiser's billions of dollars in income, investments, and reserves.
Who: Registered nurses at 22 Kaiser facilities
What: Informational pickets for safe staffing, AI protections
When and Where: Tuesday, Sept. 1, full list of times and locations below
"High-quality patient care starts with safe staffing on every unit on every shift at every facility," said Michelle Gutierrez-Vo, RN in the Adult and Family Medicine Department at Kaiser Fremont Medical Center. "Across its network, Kaiser is constantly trying to cut staff. That's unacceptable for us as nurses, and it endangers our patients and their care."
"We want Kaiser to understand that our position is simple," said Deb Capistrano, RN in the Telemetry Department at Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center. "New technology must be tested, regulated, and include us in the conversation about its implementation. Anything less threatens our practice as nurses and our patients' health.
Representing more than 25,000 nurses at 22 Kaiser facilities across the Golden State, CNA has more than 100,000 members statewide and is an affiliate of NNU, the country's largest nurses union, which represents more than 225,000 nurses nationwide.
Locations and times for Sept. 1 pickets (alphabetical by location)
Antioch Medical Center
4501 Sand Creek Rd., Antioch, Calif.
8 to 10 a.m.
Fremont Medical Center
39400 Paseo Padre Pkwy., Fremont, Calif.
6:45 to 8:45 a.m.
Fresno Medical Center
7300 N. Fresno St., Fresno, Calif.
7:45 to 9:45 a.m.
Los Angeles Medical Center
4867 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.
7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Manteca Medical Center
1777 W. Yosemite Ave., Manteca, Calif.
7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Modesto Medical Center
4601 Dale Rd., Modesto, Calif.
8 to 10 a.m.
Oakland Medical Center
3600 Broadway, Oakland, Calif.
7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Redwood City Medical Center
1100 Veterans Blvd., Redwood City, Calif.
2:15 to 4:15 p.m.
Richmond Medical Center
901 Nevin Ave., Richmond, Calif.
1 to 3 p.m.
Roseville Medical Center
1600 Eureka Rd., Roseville, Calif.
7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Sacramento Medical Center
2025 Morse Ave., Sacramento, Calif.
7:15 to 9:15 a.m.
San Francisco Medical Center
2425 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, Calif.
7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
San Jose Medical Center
250 Hospital Pkwy., San Jose, Calif.
3:30 to 5:30 pm.
San Leandro Medical Center
2500 Merced St., San Leandro, Calif.
2 to 5 p.m.
San Rafael Medical Center
99 Montecillo Rd., San Rafael, Calif.
7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Santa Clara Medical Center
700 Lawrence Expy., Santa Clara, Calif.
7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Santa Rosa Medical Center
401 Bicentennial Way, Santa Rosa, Calif.
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
South Sacramento Medical Center
6600 Bruceville Rd., Sacramento, Calif.
7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
South San Francisco
1200 El Camino Real, South San Francisco, Calif.
7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Vacaville Medical Center
1 Quality Dr., Vacaville, Calif.
8 to 10 a.m.
Vallejo Medical Center
975 Sereno Dr., Vallejo, Calif.
7:45 to 9:45 a.m.
Walnut Creek Medical Center
1425 S. Main St., Walnut Creek, Calif.
2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
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/kaiser-nurses-to-hold-informational-pickets-at-22-california-hospitals
Teamsters-Backed Waste Accountability Bill Heads to Governor's Desk
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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Teamsters-Backed Waste Accountability Bill Heads to Governor's Desk
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Press Contact: Lena Melentijevic Phone: (347) 208-2279 Email: LMelentijevic@teamster.org
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) - The Teamsters applaud the California Legislature for passing Senate Bill 1371 (SB 1371) out of both chambers. Authored by Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, the bill would prevent municipalities from being forced to pay for waste and recycling services that aren't rendered because of a work stoppage.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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Teamsters-Backed Waste Accountability Bill Heads to Governor's Desk
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Press Contact: Lena Melentijevic Phone: (347) 208-2279 Email: LMelentijevic@teamster.org
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) - The Teamsters applaud the California Legislature for passing Senate Bill 1371 (SB 1371) out of both chambers. Authored by Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, the bill would prevent municipalities from being forced to pay for waste and recycling services that aren't rendered because of a work stoppage.SB 1371 now goes to the Governor's desk to be signed into law.
"On behalf of Teamsters California, I extend my appreciation to every lawmaker who supported SB 1371. This important bill will make our communities safer and improve the lives of union sanitation workers," said Victor Mineros, Director of the Teamsters Solid Waste and Recycling Division and Co-Chair of Teamsters California. "But the job is not done yet. Teamsters California calls on Governor Newsom to sign SB 1371 without delay and hold multibillion-dollar waste haulers accountable."
When waste companies sign a contract with a municipality, they typically include a "force majeure" clause. This lets them walk away from their contractual obligations without facing penalties when trash goes uncollected due to major disruptions -even during labor disputes caused by management. SB 1371 closes this loophole by excluding labor disputes from the scenarios in which haulers can invoke a force majeure clause.
"Giant waste corporations should not be able to force workers, customers, and communities to pay the price of their greed," said Marcus Ford, a member of Teamsters Local 396 at Republic Services. "The deck is stacked against union workers. SB 1371 would put us on a more level playing field. We call on the Governor to sign this bill into law as soon as possible."
Sanitation Teamsters across the country, including Republic Services workers in Stockton, Calif., represented by Local 439, were forced on strike last year. They extended picket lines to Southern California and the Bay Area. Next month, over 3,000 Solid Waste Teamsters throughout the Los Angeles region are set to see their contracts expire.
Teamsters California is the united voice of 250,000 workers across dozens of industries who power the state's economy and communities every single day. For more information, go to teamstersca.org.
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Original text here: https://teamster.org/2026/08/teamsters-backed-waste-accountability-bill-heads-to-governors-desk/
SAG-AFTRA, Cameo, CAA, Music Artist Coalition, UTA and WME Statement on Protecting Performer Rights Against Unauthorized AI Use
LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 27 -- The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) issued the following news release:
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SAG-AFTRA, Cameo, CAA, Music Artist Coalition, UTA and WME Statement on Protecting Performer Rights Against Unauthorized AI Use
SAG-AFTRA, Cameo, and leading talent agencies and organizations--including CAA, Music Artist Coalition, UTA, and WME--have a shared commitment to safeguarding talent's names, voices, likenesses, and creative works in the face of emerging AI technology. We are dedicated to finding the best way to support
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LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 27 -- The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) issued the following news release:
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SAG-AFTRA, Cameo, CAA, Music Artist Coalition, UTA and WME Statement on Protecting Performer Rights Against Unauthorized AI Use
SAG-AFTRA, Cameo, and leading talent agencies and organizations--including CAA, Music Artist Coalition, UTA, and WME--have a shared commitment to safeguarding talent's names, voices, likenesses, and creative works in the face of emerging AI technology. We are dedicated to finding the best way to supportthe ethical use of talent likenesses in AI-generated content.
Authenticity is core to the Cameo experience for talent and fans alike. Ensuring that talent feel safe and in control of their name, image, and likeness is essential; talent on Cameo retain full ownership of their submitted videos, and Cameo's policies prohibit any account from using AI to generate deepfake videos of talent without their explicit authorization. Cameo does not use talent videos to create or train AI digital replicas without talent permission.
The talent agencies and organizations of this coalition are supportive of Cameo's efforts to protect talent and their livelihoods, which continue to evolve. Moving forward, this coalition remains dedicated to strengthening both policy and technological safeguards to ensure that talent rights are protected in the continually evolving landscape.
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About SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org.
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Original text here: https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-cameo-caa-music-artist-coalition-uta-and-wme-statement-protecting-performer-rights
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Nurses hold nationwide civil disobedience actions to demand 'Palantir Out!'
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Aug. 27 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Nurses hold nationwide civil disobedience actions to demand 'Palantir Out!'
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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 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;
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Aug. 27 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Nurses hold nationwide civil disobedience actions to demand 'Palantir Out!'
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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 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, California; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, D.C.; Portland, Maine; Asheville, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; and New Orleans, Louisiana.
The actions included visual displays of the deadly costs of Palantir's products, including its development and operation of ELITE, an application used by federal agents that identifies people for arrest using, in part, improperly obtained Medicaid data.
In each city, nurses placed 50 pairs of baby shoes in the street - one pair of shoes representing every 10 babies who have been detained since President Trump took office. Passersby could also see large images of the heart-wrenching notes written by some of the 6,000 children who have been imprisoned by federal agents since the second Trump term began.
The nurses also held large red umbrellas emblazoned with eyes, symbolizing that nurses are keeping an eye on Palantir's harmful activities.
"Union nurses cannot be silent when our most vulnerable people, babies and children, are being detained by federal immigration agents," said NNU President Jamie Brown, RN. "While our patients and neighbors are living in fear of immigration raids enabled by Palantir, our hospitals are facing huge cuts and our patients are facing mounting health care costs because of H.R. 1. Nurses aren't just saying no to Palantir, but we're calling for our public resources to go toward the benefit of working people, not billionaires and their corporations."
While the U.S. government and corporations award the company billions of dollars in contracts to Palantir, the U.S. health care system faces a dire threat. H.R. 1 is the 2025 budget bill, pushed through by Republicans and President Trump, that cut more than $1 trillion in Medicaid and Medicare funding to give billionaires tax breaks, militarize immigration enforcement, and fund endless wars abroad. Not only will these cuts threaten health coverage for millions of people, they risk closures and service cuts at more than 600 hospitals nationwide, according to new NNU research.
NNU President Brown continued: "What we know is the money spent on ICE detention could fund health care for at least 12 million children every single year. Nurses and our allies condemn these unjust, misguided political choices. Everyone deserves health care, education, and housing. Our politics should not be controlled by billionaires."
Purge Palantir allies join RNs nationwide.
Across the eight cities, NNU nurses were joined by community allies in their calls to "Purge Palantir!".
"Palantir makes money by enabling mass violence in the U.S. and around the world," said Kenny Morris, campaigns strategist for the American Friends Service Committee. "The surveillance company has no place in our hospitals, our utilities, our investments, or our government. This day of action shows just how many communities are organizing to push our institutions to cut ties with Palantir."
"It is critical times like these, where Palantir brings us together across movements, crystallizing a common enemy," said Olivia DiNucci, D.C. organizer for CodePink. "The fight for Medicare for All, the fight to end the genocide in Gaza, the fight to end mass surveillance and deportations are unified to cut ties and influence of Palantir and its profiting on mass deportations, genocide and war, and a for-profit healthcare system."
"In a moment where Big Tech is attempting to become the final decision maker of what is democracy, freedom, and what is the definition of privacy, we see it essential for all sectors of labor and organizing to come together against this common evil," said Cathy Carrillo, organizer for Mijente. "Palantir is at the forefront of the chaos happening to immigrant communities and the attempt to expand surveillance and AI in all other sectors. We are united in the call to Purge Palantir."
"Palantir is a secretive data and AI company whose technology facilitates ICE terror and enables the Israeli military's genocide on Gaza," said Dani Noble, campaigns organizer for Jewish Voice for Peace. "Palantir should have no place in our hospitals -it's designed to control and to harm. It is a company built on unlawful surveillance deeply embedded in policing and war, all to generate profit for right-wing billionaires."
"Palantir's AI technology is used to harm our communities by putting patient care in the hands of a machine, identifying and tracking immigrants for ICE abduction, and targeting Palestinians in Gaza for assassination," said fatima mohammadi, director of organizing at U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). "The well-being and safety of our loved ones and neighbors are at stake. Palantir out of hospitals! Every institution must cut ties with Palantir now." [Note: the lowercase name is intentional.]
Nurses say: "Palantir Out!"
Palantir's growing notoriety - fueled by a growing wave of grassroots protests organized by nurses and criticism from employees, clients, and elected officials - have threatened its business and made its brand politically toxic in the United States and abroad. However, Palantir continues to benefit from its close relationship with the Trump administration, and, increasingly, with the U.S. hospital industry.
From 2009 to 2025, Palantir received $2.5 billion in federal government funding, but this number has grown tremendously in just the past year. Last July, the Department of Defense announced a $10 billion agreement with Palantir to use its technology to share data across federal agencies, enabling unprecedented surveillance power. This followed a $30 million contract awarded to Palantir by the Department of Homeland Security to build an AI-powered system that would identify immigrants for deportation. In Feb. 2026, the Department of Homeland Security and Palantir signed a $1 billion contract.
In the hospital industry, already, Palantir manages more than one-fifth of U.S. hospital beds. For nurses, this marks a dangerous threat to the nursing profession, which is seeing a glut of untested and unregulated technology introduced into patient care settings.
The firm's technology is already being used for automated scheduling and staffing in the largest for-profit hospital group in the country, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). Timpani, otherwise known as HCA Inspire, is used for nursing staff scheduling, removing hospitals' local managers from staffing decisions and replacing them with an anonymous office in Nashville.
Even these limited applications are already exacerbating the nationwide staffing crisis, as executives are rushing to use untested and unregulated technology to replace clinical judgement and make critical health care decisions like how many nurses are on a unit to take care of patients on a shift.
Other hospitals represented by NNU, like MaineHealth, are also using Palantir technologies. As with HCA, MaineHealth has refused to disclose the extent of the hospital's cooperation with Palantir, including how patients' and health care workers' data are being protected. That lack of transparency only underscores the importance of demanding hospitals purge Palantir out of their operations.
In addition to working closely with the U.S. government and hospitals, Palantir has also entered into partnership with Israel's Ministry of Defense to support their "war effort" in Gaza which Israeli human rights organizations, the globe's leading association of genocide scholars, and a United Nations Special Committee, among others, have concluded is a genocide. More than 1,500 health care workers, in addition to tens of thousands of innocent civilians, have been murdered in Gaza since Israeli forces invaded in October 2023.
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Original text here: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nurses-hold-nationwide-civil-disobedience-actions-to-demand-palantir-out
