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Nurses Are at the Heart of the US Labor Movement
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 July 2, 2026 | HEALTH & SAFETY | […] Health care unions are an important outlier in this national story of union retreat, however. Public and private sector health care unions drove 29.4 percent of all strikes and twelve out of the thirty-one major strikes (those involving more than one thousand workers) in 2025. Much of this activity was led by nurses. Thanks to their leverage in a growing health care industry in need of their skilled labor — and their willingness to take collective action — many nurses won impressive improvements to patient care through safe staffing as well as workplace safety measures, income increases, and other gains. Full story at Jacobin PHOTO: Jim West / UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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