2024 Nurse Strikes: Complete List of Active, Upcoming, and Recent Strikes
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2024 saw a significant rise in nursing strikes, with more and more nurses utilizing their unionizations to fight for better pay and safer working conditions for both patients and staff.
Here's where the nursing strikes are currently standing in 2024.
The following is a list of current and pending nursing strikes, as well as pre-strike pickets and rallies:
Current, pending, and past strikes
As of October 15, 2024, there are no ongoing nursing strikes. However, we will continuously update this article.
Pending Strikes:
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University Medical Center (UMC) in New Orleans have announced their intention to hold a one-day strike on October 25, 2024. This decision comes after months of unsuccessful contract negotiations between the nurses' union and hospital management, with patient safety concerns at the forefront of the dispute.
- Mission Hospital
- Where: Asheville, N.C.
- Why: Pay, staffing, and safety issues
- Status: The union had a 97% vote to authorize to strike as of September 3, 2024; a strike is not currently scheduled
- MountainView Hospital
Recent Pre-Strike Pickets and Rallies:
- Health Professionals and Allied Employees Union (New Jersey)
- Enloe Medical Center (Chico, CA)
- HCA Florida Osceola Hospital ( Kissimmee, FL)
- Corpus Christi Medical Center (Corpus Christi, TX)
- Doctors Medical Center (Modesto, CA)
- University Medical Center (New Orleans, LA)
- Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital (Tucson, AZ)
Past strikes, rallies, and pickets:
- Providence Joint Strike: Providence Medford, Providence Hood River, Providence Newberg, Providence Willamette Falls, Providence St. Vincent, and Providence Milwaukie, Oregon. Ended
- Hawaii Nurses’ Association (HNA): Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Loretto Hospital (Chicago, IL)
- McLaren Lapeer Regional Hospital (Lapeer, MI)
- Providence Portland Medical Center (Portland, OR)
- Marin Health Medical Center (Greenbrae, CA)
- Mount Sinai Health, Montefiore Health System, and Wyckoff Hospital (New York, NY)
- National Nurses United (NNU) National Day of Action (nationwide)
- Ascension Seton Medical Center (Austin, TX)
- Kaiser Permanente (California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and the Washington D.C.)
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (New Brunswick, NJ)
- Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey (Marina del Rey, California)
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute-Merrimack Valley (Boston, Massachusetts)
- Ascension Saint Joseph-Joliet (Joliet, Illinois)
- St. Catherine of Siena Hospital (Smithtown, New York)
- Sutter Center for Psychiatry (Sacramento, CA)
- MyMichigan Medical Center Sault (Sault Ste. Marie, MI)
- Sacred Heart Home Care Services (Springfield, OH)
- St. Joseph Hospital (St. Juliet, MI)
- University of Chicago Medicine (Chicago, IL)
Why are nurses striking?
Nurses go on strike for many systemic reasons including, but not limited to, inadequate pay, unsafe working conditions, and unsafe staffing ratios. Often, with the assistance of their union, nurses work to negotiate contracts with their employers. Oftentimes, nurses are able to negotiate a better contract without the need to go on strike.
However, sometimes negotiations reach a standstill, with neither party reaching an agreement. When this happens, nurses protest by refusing to go to work until agreeable terms are met.
In particular, safer nurse-to-patient staffing ratios have been at the forefront of concerns that have driven recent nursing strike authorizations across the country.
According to the 2023 State of Nursing Report conducted by Nurse.org, 91% of nurses believe the nursing shortage is getting worse and that burnout, poor working conditions, and inadequate pay are the primary causes. In addition, 79% of nurses said their units are inadequately staffed and 71% said that improving staffing ratios would have the greatest impact on the nursing shortage.
Nurses are becoming more vocal about these feelings and experiences and are choosing to take action through striking.
If you have any information on current, pending, or past strikes please email info@nurse.org.