To care for California, healthcare workers must be able to heal when they're sick.

March 22, 2023

Press Release

As COVID-19 emergency order ends, nurses call on California Department of Public Health to enforce safe staffing laws.

March 2, 2023

Press Release

Union Caregivers at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center vote to authorize Unfair Labor Practice strike.

December 2, 2022

Press Release

Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Caregivers picket for safe staffing, call for action to end to workplace bullying.

November 8, 2022

Press Release

Kindred Hospital Los Angeles Nurses Vote “Yes” to Union Representation with SEIU 121RN

September 2, 2022

Nurses will join more than 9,000 others in Union’s ranks, including hundreds at sister Kindred Hospitals throughout Southern California.

Statement on Encino Hospital stabbing: We must address hospital workplace violence now.

June 6, 2022

Media statement

SEIU 121 RN Endorses in Pivotal LA Mayor's Race and Other Key Local Seats

February 9, 2022

Press Release for 2/9/2022

Union Nurses vote to authorize a strike at Van Nuys Behavioral Health Hospital

February 3, 2022

Press Release

“Unscientific and dangerous": Statement on CDPH January 8 guidance

January 8, 2022

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2022

SEIU 121RN Cautions Governor against suspending Nurse to patient ratios

January 7, 2022

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2022 Contact: Hal Weiss (213) 247-4585

Press Release: AB 1422 signed; new law will ensure patients' 'right to know' about dangerously low hospital staffing.

October 9, 2021

PRESS RELEASE

Press Release: “Patients’ Right to Know” bill AB 1422 passes in Assembly floor vote; heads to Senate

June 2, 2021

Rancho Cucamonga Nurses Vote to Form Union

May 1, 2021

New Assembly bill would expose dangerously low hospital staffing & ensure PATIENTS’ RIGHT TO KNOW.

March 3, 2021

Press release: STRIKE AVERTED at HCA hospitals

December 20, 2020

Press Release: Southland Nurses and Licensed Professionals call 10-day strike

December 14, 2020

PRESS RELEASE: Nurses & healthcare professionals overwhelmingly authorize a strike

December 11, 2020

Press release: Nurses & healthcare professionals at Los Robles Regional Medical Center hold informational picket.

November 29, 2020

Press Release: California Nurses’ Union says latest CDC reversal is last straw; puts out its own pandemic safety guidelines.

September 22, 2020

PRESS RELEASE: COMPREHENSIVE PANDEMIC PPE LEGISLATION WILL SAVE LIVES AND PREPARE FOR FUTURE CRISES

September 2, 2020

PRESS RELEASE: Nurses launch radio ad campaign to sound the alarm on serious deficiencies—during a pandemic—in three very profitable southland hospitals.

August 17, 2020

Press Release: Hospital retaliates against Nurses who held a 10-day strike for safe staffing

July 30, 2020

Statement from SEIU Local 121RN Executive Director on the passing of Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis

July 20, 2020

Licensed Medical Professionals form Union at Prime Healthcare’s Encino Hospital

July 8, 2020

Press Release: Riverside Nurses strike for patient safety

June 26, 2020

Press Release: Nurses issue 10-day strike notice at Riverside Community Hospital and plead for staffing and safety.

June 23, 2020

Media Advisory: Union RNs to offer **FIRST AID** in solidarity with Women’s March

January 17, 2020

Press Release: Nurses’ “Stop Repeat Offender Hospitals” patient safety bill becomes law on January 1st

December 30, 2019

Nurses win patient safety improvements in their Union contract with Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center

December 19, 2019

PRESS RELEASE: Licensed Medical Professionals Vote to Form Union at Los Robles Hospital

December 12, 2019

Statement from SEIU Local 121RN President on new law to improve hospital patient safety

October 13, 2019

PRESS RELEASE: SB 227 Author Senator Leyva, Speaker Rendon, Legislators Join Nurses to Demand Safety for Hospital Patients

September 11, 2019

PRESS RELEASE: Nurses to Governor »»» YES on SB 227. Patients suffer when hospitals ignore the law.

September 5, 2019

Media Advisory: RNs urge Governor to sign SB 227

September 4, 2019

Press Release: Looming Nurse strike called off at Dignity Hospitals

August 24, 2019

Press Release: Nurses protest dangerously low staffing, poor security and demand safety for patients at Dignity Health’s Northridge Hospital Medical Center

July 30, 2019

PRESS RELEASE: California Senate passes SB 227 (Leyva) designed to remedy hospitals’ staffing crisis

May 9, 2019

Press Release: SB 227—Patients suffer when hospitals break the law

April 9, 2019

Media Advisory: RNs join Senator Leyva in support of SB 227

April 8, 2019

Press Release: Nurses win patient safety improvements in their Union contract with Barlow Respiratory Hospital in L.A.

April 4, 2019

PRESS RELEASE: Nurses at Pacifica Hospital—last true “community hospital” in the San Fernando Valley—avert strike

March 4, 2019

PRESS RELEASE: Nurses at the last true “community hospital” in the San Fernando Valley announce 10-DAY STRIKE

February 22, 2019

Press Release: RNs speak out today with SB 1288 author Senator Connie M. Leyva to improve hospital patient safety

April 17, 2018

Press Statement: Congratulations from SEIU Local 121RN President as Senator Atkins is sworn in as 1st female pro Tem

March 21, 2018

PRESS RELEASE: Senator Connie M. Leyva introduces SB 1288 to improve hospital patient safety after nurses sound alarm on California hospitals’ unsafe staffing crisis

February 16, 2018

*PRESS RELEASE* Statement from SEIU Local 121RN President on the House and Senate agreement on the Republican Tax Plan

December 14, 2017

*PRESS RELEASE* Nurses sound alarm on SoCal’s hospital staffing crisis: Patient safety watchdog agency turns blind eye

November 4, 2017

*MEDIA ADVISORY* Nurses sound alarm on SoCal’s hospital staffing crisis: Patient safety watchdog agency turns blind eye

November 2, 2017

RNs Donate $1,000 to Fledgling ‘Paws For Troops’ Group

June 15, 2011