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The AFT launched a major national campaign to shine a spotlight on and address the country’s dire healthcare staffing crisis.
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A new report examines how staffing shortages in the healthcare industry are affecting the way many health professionals work.
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Members in Action
Nearly a year has passed since President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, also known as the Big Ugly Bill, into law; a recent report identifies hundreds of hospitals at heightened risk of closure and reduced services due to cuts imposed by the measure.
A plan to close the inpatient maternity unit at Grady Memorial Hospital in Delaware County, Ohio, has drawn opposition from the Ohio Nurses Association and Delaware County residents.
After years of being told that nurse staffing was a collective bargaining matter—something to be worked out between workers and management behind closed doors—nurses in Hawaii got the Legislature on record: We hear you.
AFT nurses and healthcare professionals from across the country gathered in Detroit April 13-15. They came carrying the weight of understaffing, growing patient demand and a healthcare system under attack but left with something stronger: a shared sense of purpose and concrete plans to act.
Almost a year into contract negotiations, the mood among King County’s public health nurses has shifted—from patience to resolve.
Amber DeSouza shares how she has found the support she needed from her union, and why she advocates for better protections, clear protocols, and zero tolerance for workplace violence.
Braving cold temperatures and gusty winds, more than 70 nurses and community supporters gathered across from Providence Alaska Medical Center on Dec. 15, to demand safe staffing levels and oppose staffing reductions that nurses say put patient safety at risk.
Catharyne Henderson, a nurse in surgical oncology from Ohio, went to Washington, D.C., in the early days of the government shutdown to speak out against the policies being pushed by Republicans in Congress and the White House that prioritize politics over protecting healthcare and keeping costs from rising.
Dr. Byrce Pulliam spends his nights in a community emergency room in Southern Oregon, where the line between life and death can come down to seconds—and insurance coverage.