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Teamsters at Cass-Clay Creamery Ratify Contract
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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Teamsters at Cass-Clay Creamery Ratify Contract
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Press Contact: Lena Melentijevic Phone: (347) 208-2279 Email: LMelentijevic@teamster.org
(FARGO, N.D.) - Over 100 members of Teamsters Local 120 at Cass-Clay Creamery have overwhelmingly ratified a strong contract that delivers fair wages, improved health care, a pension, and other workplace protections.
Cass-Clay Creamery's Fargo facility is part of Dairy Farmers of America's (DFA) broader dairy network and produces,
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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Teamsters at Cass-Clay Creamery Ratify Contract
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Press Contact: Lena Melentijevic Phone: (347) 208-2279 Email: LMelentijevic@teamster.org
(FARGO, N.D.) - Over 100 members of Teamsters Local 120 at Cass-Clay Creamery have overwhelmingly ratified a strong contract that delivers fair wages, improved health care, a pension, and other workplace protections.
Cass-Clay Creamery's Fargo facility is part of Dairy Farmers of America's (DFA) broader dairy network and produces,packages, and ships dairy products distributed throughout North Dakota and surrounding communities, including fluid milk and Stonyfield yogurt pouches.
"This contract is a huge victory for the hardworking Teamsters who keep Cass-Clay running every day," said Kevin Saylor, Vice President of Local 120. "Our members stood united and fought for what they deserved. Because of their solidarity, they secured a strong contract that recognizes their value and protects their future."
In addition to wage and benefit improvements, the agreement includes successor language, stronger workplace protections, and a fair grievance and arbitration process. The new contract reflects the essential work Teamsters perform at Cass-Clay and sets a stronger standard for workers across DFA's dairy network.
"Many of us have spent years at Cass-Clay making sure these dairy products reach our community's tables," said Matt Hussel, a Cass-Clay Creamery worker and member of Local 120. "I want to shoutout our brothers and sisters on the bargaining committee for a job well done. The improvement in wages and benefits alone will make a real difference for us and our families."
Teamsters Local 120 proudly represents over 15,000 workers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota. For more information, visit local120.org.
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Original text here: https://teamster.org/2026/08/teamsters-at-cass-clay-creamery-ratify-contract/
NALC statement on Supreme Court ruling on mail-in ballots
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO National Association of Letter Carriers issued the following news:
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NALC statement on Supreme Court ruling on mail-in ballots
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NALC President Brian L. Renfroe released the following statement:
Yesterday evening's Supreme Court ruling was the latest development in a broader effort to diminish the credibility of mail-in voting, undermine the dedicated work of the nation's 200,000 active city letter carriers, and suppress Americans' access to the ballot.
States administer elections. Neither the executive branch nor the Postal Service
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO National Association of Letter Carriers issued the following news:
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NALC statement on Supreme Court ruling on mail-in ballots
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NALC President Brian L. Renfroe released the following statement:
Yesterday evening's Supreme Court ruling was the latest development in a broader effort to diminish the credibility of mail-in voting, undermine the dedicated work of the nation's 200,000 active city letter carriers, and suppress Americans' access to the ballot.
States administer elections. Neither the executive branch nor the Postal Servicehas the authority to regulate elections, rewrite election laws, or determine who is eligible to vote by mail. The administration's executive order gives the USPS new responsibilities far outside its standard operations and constitutionally mandated authority.
Instances of mail-in voter fraud are exceedingly rare, and any insinuation that voting by mail is not safe and secure is severely misguided. Letter carriers have securely delivered ballots for decades, and there is no evidence that the existing system requires substantial changes.
We help our democracy work by delivering ballots to tens of millions of Americans so that they can participate in our elections. We deliver those ballots with the same reliability and security with which we deliver more than 360 million pieces of mail and packages every day across the country. Mail-in voting makes elections accessible for seniors, rural residents, working families, military personnel, and Americans with disabilities.
While this process continues to play out in the courts, letter carriers will continue doing what we do best: delivering for Americans. We are proud of our role and responsibility, and we are prepared to get the job done once again this election season.
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Original text here: https://www.nalc.org/news/nalc-updates/nalc-statement-on-supreme-court-ruling-on-mail-in-ballots
AFL-CIO AFSCM, 79 Co-Signers Issue Letter to Senate Leadership
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 [Category: Union] (TNSletter) -- The AFL-CIO AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) issued the following letter with 79 co-signers to the Senate leadership:
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The Honorable John Thune, Majority Leader, United States Senate
The Honorable Charles Schumer, Minority Leader, United States Senate
July 31, 2026
Dear Leader Thune and Leader Schumer: The undersigned 78 civil rights, labor, consumer, community, tech accountability, and other organizations write to express opposition to the inclusion of language authorizing so-called AI Innovation
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 [Category: Union] (TNSletter) -- The AFL-CIO AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) issued the following letter with 79 co-signers to the Senate leadership:
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The Honorable John Thune, Majority Leader, United States Senate
The Honorable Charles Schumer, Minority Leader, United States Senate
July 31, 2026
Dear Leader Thune and Leader Schumer: The undersigned 78 civil rights, labor, consumer, community, tech accountability, and other organizations write to express opposition to the inclusion of language authorizing so-called AI InnovationLabs within the CLARITY Act. This language creates regulatory sandboxes that allow otherwise regulated financial firms to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) systems without regulatory supervision, oversight, or enforcement and without the necessary civil rights, consumer, and user protections to prevent harm.
The use of AI in the financial sector has potential benefits to consumers and providers alike. It presents opportunities to reduce costs, improve efficiency, detect and prevent fraud, and increase the access, quality, and choice of financial services and products. However, the benefits will only be realized if there are protections from the risks as well. The use of AI in financial services and products should include requiring the consistent application and enforcement of long-established federal civil rights, consumer protection, investor protection, market integrity, and financial supervision statutes and regulations.
The financial industry has already been deploying AI within the bounds of federal laws and regulations across its business lines including from customer service to automated underwriting to securities trading to risk management. Existing legal and regulatory regimes are designed to protect people and the financial system from predatory practices, market manipulation, and economic instability. There is no need to create regulatory carve outs for companies to deploy AI systems that would otherwise violate federal laws and pose risks to people and the economy. Nor does the use of AI, however trivial, justify broad waivers of consumer and investor protection laws.
The risks of AI are real. AI credit underwriting and decision-making systems tend to amplify existing patterns of discrimination against Black, Latino, Asian American, and Indigenous people; women; and people with disabilities in the approval, pricing, and terms of credit products like student loans, mortgages, and other credit products. AI's involvement in debt collection could make people susceptible to abusive collection tactics. People could see unjust freezes or closures of accounts driven by automated fraud detection AI systems. AI's increasing use in customer relations and emerging risks from agentic AI can leave people at the mercy of chatbots and systems that give incomplete, misleading, or sometimes incorrect information. If financial institutions are granted waivers from laws and regulations for deploying AI in their systems and processes, people impacted by these risks would have little to no path for redress.
The deployment of unregulated AI into financial services products and systems also poses risks to investor protection, market integrity, and financial stability. AI-powered trading could result in market manipulation, harming investors and undermining the fidelity of the markets. Increasingly powerful AI cyberhacking tools can threaten the security of financial firms holdings, exposing customers' funds and personal information to cyberbreaches. Banks deploying AI for risk management models could result in minimizing risks and threats to the safety and soundness of the bank, posing financial stability threats. Further, the concentration of AI firms servicing the financial sector could exacerbate instability and create unstable bubbles and crashes.
The risks and threats of AI in the financial system demonstrate the importance of regulation and oversight of its use. Yet the language within this legislation would enable the financial industry to seek exemptions from these necessary laws and regulations. The threshold to create an AI test project shielded from regulatory oversight is woefully low. Virtually any company that uses AI would be able to request full waivers of civil rights, consumer, and investor protection laws, posing risks to people and the economy.
This language would allow financial firms to experiment on deploying AI for maximizing profits with effective impunity. Customers and the economy would bear the risks and harms, with financial institutions reaping the rewards. The threats and risks are too grave.
We urge Members of Congress to oppose this language and any legislation that includes this language, including in the CLARITY Act. Elected leaders must reject the granting of immunity for unlawful practices or outcomes that would substantially harm people, communities, and the economy.
Sincerely,
National Organizations
Action Center on Race and the Economy
AFSCME
AFT
AI Now Institute
American Civil Liberties Union
American Economic Liberties Project
Americans for Financial Reform
As You Sow
CAMEO Network
Care in Action
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Digital Democracy
Center for Responsible Lending
Coalition on Human Needs
Communications Workers of America (CWA)
Consumer Action
Consumer Federation of America
Consumer Reports
Consumer Watchdog
Data & Society
Demand Progress Action
Equal Rights Advocates
HEAL Food Alliance
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
National Action Network
National Association of Consumer Advocates
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
National Consumer Law Center, on behalf of
its low-income clients
National Consumers League
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Fair Housing Alliance
Next 100 Coalition
Oxfam America
P Street
Popular Democracy
Protect Borrowers
Public Citizen
Public Good Law Center
Public Investors Advocate Bar Association
Public Justice
Racial Justice Investing Coalition
Stance Capital
TechTonic Justice
The Leadership Conference on Civil and
Human Rights
Transparency Task Force
UnidosUS
Woodstock Institute
State and Local Organizations
AKPIRG
Arkansas Community Organizations
Brooklyn Cooperative FCU
Center for Economic Integrity
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto
Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety
DC Consumer Rights Coalition
Economic Action Maryland Fund
Housing Action Illinois
Housing and Economic Rights Advocates
Legal Action Chicago
Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada
Legal Aid Works
Maine People's Alliance
New Jersey Appleseed Public Interest Law Center
New York Legal Assistance Group
New Yorkers for Responsible Lending
Oregon Consumer Justice
Oregon Consumer League
Project GREEN
Public Law Center
Rise Economy
South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
Strong Economy For All Coalition
Texas Appleseed
The Academy of Financial Education
Tzedek DC
Virginia Citizens Consumer Counsel
Virginia Poverty Law Center
William E. Morris Institute for Justice
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View the letter here: https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Coalition-Opposes-AI-Sandbox-in-Crypto-Bill-7-31-26.pdf
Unions Challenge Trump Administration Rules Governing Federal Employee Performance Evaluations and Job Suitability Decisions
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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Unions Challenge Trump Administration Rules Governing Federal Employee Performance Evaluations and Job Suitability Decisions
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OPM rules scrap decades of legal precedent and undermine nonpartisan civil service, lawsuit asserts
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), along with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), and the International
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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Unions Challenge Trump Administration Rules Governing Federal Employee Performance Evaluations and Job Suitability Decisions
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OPM rules scrap decades of legal precedent and undermine nonpartisan civil service, lawsuit asserts
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), along with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), and the InternationalFederation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), and with the assistance of Democracy Forward, today filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California challenging two new rules issued by the Trump administration overhauling how federal employees are disciplined and how their performance is judged. The unions are represented by Altshuler Berzon LLP, Jonathan Weissglass, and Democracy Forward.
Both rules issued by the Office of Personnel Management scrap decades of legal precedent and run counter to the laws that Congress passed to strengthen a nonpartisan, merit-based civil service.
The first rule being challenged in the lawsuit, the Suitability Rule, lets OPM decide on its own that a civil service employee is "unsuitable" for their position and order them fired, taking that decision away from the agency that actually employs them. A separate rule issued by OPM also strips employees of independent review of these actions and makes OPM, the same agency that fired them, the only avenue for review. OPM wrote the rule, brings the case, and judges its own work. By OPM's own estimate, half of all federal firings will run through this system. The standards are broad and subjective enough to reach political speech, which is an open invitation to fire public servants who speak out, without regard to their value to their agencies and the American people.
The second rule upends decades of how performance is evaluated and opens the door to rating employees on a curve. Instead of measuring public servants against objective standards, as the law requires, the rule leads to ranking them against each other. Large numbers of high performers will be rated lower for no reason other than the curve, and a lower rating makes them easier to discipline and easier to fire. The rule also cancels their right to challenge an unfair rating once current contracts expire, and it drops the requirement that a manager's boss sign off before an employee is branded a poor performer.
The unions' lawsuit challenges both rules under the Administrative Procedure Act as arbitrary, capricious, contrary to law, and beyond the authority Congress gave OPM. The complaint shows these rules were put together haphazardly and are contrary to the Civil Service Reform Act. OPM told the public it was making no changes to employees' appeal rights, when it had already proposed months earlier to take those appeals away from the Merit Systems Protection Board and hand them to itself.
"Congress built the civil service on a simple principle - that public servants are hired, judged, and fired on merit, not on politics. OPM does not have the authority to write those protections out of the law, and no statute gives it the sweeping power it has claimed here. OPM wants to fire people itself and then review its own decision. That is not accountability, and it is not what Congress wrote," AFGE National President Everett Kelley said. "That is why AFGE is in court today with our fellow federal unions. Together we represent nearly one million of the 2.5 million people who inspect the food supply, care for veterans, and keep this country running. Every one of them deserves to be judged on the work they do."
"Once again this administration is disrespecting public service workers to the detriment of public safety and health," said AFSCME President Patrick Moran. "The federal workers who keep our food supply safe and air travel secure should be able to do their jobs without worrying about political hacks firing them without cause. They deserve to be evaluated based on whether they are doing a good job for our country, not pitted against one another. AFSCME members will fight this transparent attempt to purge even more qualified public service workers from an already depleted civil service."
"This is yet another blatant effort by the Trump Administration to make it easier to unjustly discipline and fire dedicated federal workers and diminish the critical public services they provide every day," said NFFE National President Randy Erwin. "NFFE is proud to join our federal union colleagues in this lawsuit to protect the core principle that the civil service should be based on merit - not loyalty to a president or political party. We are confident that OPM's proposed regulations stretch far beyond the agency's authority and the courts will share our view that these rules are simply unlawful."
"These rules proposed by the Trump Administration are yet another illegal continuation of their attacks on federal workers and the apolitical civil service, as they seek to eliminate long-held worker due process rights while implementing a 'fox guarding the henhouse' employee appeal process," said IFPTE President Matt Biggs. "These actions are un-American, which is why IFPTE is proud to join this lawsuit."
"Civil servants are the neighbors who provide essential government services that keep people healthy and safe, and the Trump-Vance administration is doing harm to communities across the country by unlawfully attacking federal employees and trying to make it harder for them to do their important jobs," said Skye Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward. "We are honored to continue our work with this courageous coalition of federal employee unions to defend civil servants and to fight back against this lawless administration."
The lawsuit is attached.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union, representing more than 820,000 workers in the federal government and the government of the District of Columbia. For the latest AFGE news and information, visit the AFGE Media Center.
AFSCME's 1.4 million members provide the vital services that make America happen. With members in communities across the nation, serving in hundreds of different occupations -from nurses to corrections officers, child care providers to sanitation workers -AFSCME advocates for fairness in the workplace, excellence in public services and freedom and opportunity for all working families.
Established in 1917, the National Federation of Federal Employees is America's first union representing civil service federal employees. NFFE represents approximately 110,000 federal employees in 35 departments and agencies governmentwide. NFFE is affiliated with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO. For more information, go to www.nffe.org.
Founded in 1918, the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) is a labor union representing more than 90,000 workers across North America, including upwards of 30,000 federal workers. For more information, go to ifpte.org.
Altshuler Berzon LLP is a law firm dedicated to providing the highest quality representation in the service of economic justice and the public interest. Altshuler Berzon specializes in labor and employment, constitutional, environmental, civil rights, class action, campaign and election, and impact litigation at both the trial and appellate levels.
Democracy Forward Foundation is a national legal organization that advances democracy and social progress through litigation, policy, public education, and regulatory engagement. For more information, please visit www.democracyforward.org
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Original text here: https://www.afge.org/link/8c20735683b040bd9c2844b5aa68fe25.aspx
Stockton nurses to rally for patient safety, condemn layoffs proposed by CommonSpirit
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Aug. 24 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Stockton nurses to rally for patient safety, condemn layoffs proposed by CommonSpirit
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Registered nurses at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton, Calif., will hold a rally and press conference on Wednesday, Aug. 26, to condemn proposed layoffs of critical support staff, announced California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) today.
Earlier this year, CommonSpirit began conducting mass layoffs across California. Dozens of St. Joseph's employees, including
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Aug. 24 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Stockton nurses to rally for patient safety, condemn layoffs proposed by CommonSpirit
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Registered nurses at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton, Calif., will hold a rally and press conference on Wednesday, Aug. 26, to condemn proposed layoffs of critical support staff, announced California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) today.
Earlier this year, CommonSpirit began conducting mass layoffs across California. Dozens of St. Joseph's employees, includinghome health RNs and unit secretaries, were notified in June that they will lose their jobs by the end of August. Every time nurses ask CommonSpirit management about who will do the work of the eliminated employees, they have claimed "the nurses will do it," which nurses know is not a solution when they are already stretched too thin.
"Our unit clerks are the backbone for our critical care units and work alongside nurses and doctors to provide uninterrupted care," said Stacy Erck, RN in the respiratory medical intensive care unit (ICU). "They manage high-volume phone lines, relay valuable information from doctors and our pharmacy, interact with family members on the phone, and screen visitors who visit locked units. They also run blood draws to the lab, pick up lifesaving medications from the pharmacy, and obtain blood from the blood bank at a moment's notice. St. Joseph's must reverse these cuts and put patient care ahead of their bottom line."
Who: RNs at St. Joseph's Medical Center
What: Rally and press conference for safe staffing and patient safety
When: Wednesday, Aug. 26, 9 a.m.
Where: St. Joseph's Medical Center, 1800 N. California St., Stockton, Calif.
CNA nurses held a rally and press conference in Los Angeles on Aug. 3 to protest layoffs across 17 CommonSpirit facilities in the state. They also delivered a petition signed by more than 5,000 CommonSpirit nurses protesting the layoffs.
"St. Joseph's is cutting the secretaries who handle visitor coordination, supplies, room turnover in the ICU, and a list of administrative tasks, and expecting nurses to absorb that work on top of caring for critically ill patients," added Brandy Howard-Ross, RN in the Pavilion medical-surgical ICU. "That's not efficiency, it's corporate greed dressed up as a budget decision, and it puts patients at a huge safety risk. Our patients deserve nurses who are only focused on them."
Joy Gonsolin, RN in the neonatal ICU RN, who cares for the hospital's most vulnerable patients, agrees: "As nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit, we care for the smallest, sickest and most fragile patients -some as small as one pound. Our secretaries don't just assist us, they are vital to keeping our unit running safely. In emergencies, the secretary handles calling for backup support, coordinates patient transport teams, gathers emergency supplies, gets copies of X-rays and prints medical records. We nurses cannot possibly be expected to provide safe patient care and also handle the important tasks of our unit secretaries. Yet CommonSpirit wants us to do their work, too, because their profits are apparently more important than patient safety."
Nurses know that CommonSpirit has the resources to address the hospital's needs. According to its tax filings, from 2020 to 2024, the top 10 CommonSpirit executives were paid in excess of $310.5 million. Its CEO took home a compensation package worth more than $14 million for fiscal year 2025.
CNA represents about 1,300 registered nurses at St. Joseph's Medical Center and more than 17,000 CommonSpirit RNs in California, Nevada, Colorado, and Texas.
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/stockton-nurses-to-rally-for-patient-safety-and-condemn-layoffs
Prime nurses in three states give notice they plan to hold one-day strikes for fair contracts that support patient safety
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Aug. 24 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Prime nurses in three states give notice they plan to hold one-day strikes for fair contracts that support patient safety
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Nurses at West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, Calif.; Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, N.V.; Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago, Ill.; and nurses and health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, Calif. gave notice to their employer Prime Healthcare that they will hold one-day strikes from Sept. 3 to Sept. 4
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Aug. 24 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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Prime nurses in three states give notice they plan to hold one-day strikes for fair contracts that support patient safety
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Nurses at West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, Calif.; Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, N.V.; Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago, Ill.; and nurses and health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, Calif. gave notice to their employer Prime Healthcare that they will hold one-day strikes from Sept. 3 to Sept. 4to protest the administration's refusal to address deep concerns about patient care and safe staffing, announced California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), which is an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU).
This 10-days' notice of these four strikes covering over 2,200 nurses and health care workers follows nearly unanimous strike authorization votes. Nurses give at least 10 days of advance notice to the hospital to allow for alternative plans to be made for patient care.
Nurses and health care workers at the California and Nevada hospitals have been working without a contract since last year, making recruitment and retention difficult and directly hurting patient care. Employees are demanding that management invest in nursing and health care staff and agree to a contract that provides:
* Incentive for nurses and health care workers to stay at the bedside
* Staffing that meets the patients' needs
* RNs' right to advocate for their patients without fear of retaliation
RNs at Chicago's Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital, who just unionized in June, will be striking to win a fair first contract. Since their election, management has prevented and threatened nurses on the negotiating team from discussing matters of patient care and staffing with colleagues.
"Nurses have become overwhelmed with the number of patients we are assigned -to the point where we cannot safely assess or attend to all of the patients' needs," said Vanessa Moreno, RN in the telemetry unit at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital. "We have been demanding meetings with the hospital attorneys on these patient care concerns, but they keep saying they are too busy or ignore us altogether."
[Reporters please note the different times strikes begin]
Chicago facility
Who: Registered nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital (Chicago)
What: One-day strike to address patient care concerns and to protest retaliation against nurse advocates
When: Thursday, Sept. 3, 7 a.m. CT to Friday, Sept. 4, 6:59 a.m. CT
Where: Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital, 2233 W Division Street, Chicago, IL, 60622
Reno facility
Who: Registered nurses at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center (Reno)
What: One-day strike for patient safety and a fair contract
When: Thursday, Sept. 3, 6:45 a.m. PT to Friday, Sept. 4, 6:44 a.m. PT
Where: Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center, 235 W. 6th St. Reno NV, 89503
Redding facility
Who: Registered nurses and health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center (Redding)
What: One-day strike for patient safety and a fair contract
When: Thursday, Sept. 3, 6 a.m. PT to Friday, Sept. 4, 5:59 a.m. PT
Where: Shasta Regional Medical Center, 1100 Butte St. Redding CA
Anaheim facility
Who: Registered nurses at West Anaheim Medical Center (Anaheim)
What: One-day strike for patient safety and a fair contract
When: Thursday, Sept. 3, 7 a.m. PT to Friday, Sept. 4, 6:59 a.m. PT
Where: West Anaheim Medical Center, 3033 W. Orange Ave., Anaheim CA
"Nurses and the care we provide are the heart and soul, the foundation, of our hospitals," said Michelle Gaffney, an intensive care unit RN at Shasta Regional Medical Center. "In order to do our jobs well, we need safe RN staffing and we need a strong contract to not just attract but keep experienced nurses. Prime is not investing in us nurses and health care workers and actually retaliating against some of us when we speak up, so we are joining forces across the system to let them know we mean business and are willing to strike together to win better working conditions and standards."
Most of the nurses and health care workers have already struck previously in their fight for a fair contract.
NNOC represents over 1,800 nurses and health care workers at Prime facilities in California and Nevada and about 400 nurses in Illinois.
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/prime-nurses-in-three-states-give-notice-they-plan-to-hold-one-day-strikes-for-fair-contracts
NNU nurses to participate in nationwide protests against Palantir
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Aug. 24 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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NNU nurses to participate in nationwide protests against Palantir
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On Thursday, Aug. 27, registered nurses - joined by patients and community allies - will be mobilizing nationwide to demand hospitals and elected officials immediately cut ties with the artificial intelligence giant Palantir. The nurses belong to National Nurses United, the nation's largest union of registered nurses, which has opposed Palantir's growth as a dangerous threat to democracy and human rights.
Thursday's
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Aug. 24 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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NNU nurses to participate in nationwide protests against Palantir
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On Thursday, Aug. 27, registered nurses - joined by patients and community allies - will be mobilizing nationwide to demand hospitals and elected officials immediately cut ties with the artificial intelligence giant Palantir. The nurses belong to National Nurses United, the nation's largest union of registered nurses, which has opposed Palantir's growth as a dangerous threat to democracy and human rights.
Thursday'sdemonstrations are the largest coordinated, national actions NNU nurses and their allies have organized to date against Palantir. Each demonstration will visually represent the cost of Palantir's technologies, including the approximately 500 babies and more than 6,000 children who have been detained by ICE and CBP since the second Trump term began. Palantir developed and now operates an application used by federal agents, called ELITE, which identifies people for arrest using improperly obtained Medicaid data.
"No part of the country has been untouched by the terror and violence of ICE and CBP, enabled by Palantir's technology," said NNU President Jamie Brown, RN. "While nurses have had to witness the fear and desperation of our patients and neighbors facing the threat of immigration raids, we have also seen hospitals start to buckle under conditions of extreme scarcity. That's why we have to resist a future where tech billionaires control our politics and our public resources. Otherwise, we will see fewer and fewer resources for working people - for our health care, for our education, for our housing."
The August 27 actions will take place in Palo Alto, Calif.; Los Angeles, Calif.; Chicago, Ill.; Washington, D.C.; Portland, Maine; Asheville, N.C., Austin, Texas; and New Orleans, La.
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.
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.
While the U.S. government and corporations award the company billions of dollars in contracts to Palantir, U.S. hospitals are facing a dire threat. The U.S. federal government has cut more than a trillion dollars in funding for Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies, which threatens health coverage for tens of thousands of people and risks closures and service cuts at more than 600 hospitals nationwide, according to new NNU research.
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. 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 addition to working closely with the U.S. government, 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.
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/nnu-nurses-to-participate-in-nationwide-protests-against-palantir
