Support University Medical Center Nurses during and after their historic strike

Nurses in Louisiana are in a crucial battle. Your donation today to the Nurses Support Fund will help a nurse keep standing strong through a historic fifth strike, fighting for a better hospital for patients and staff alike.

Nurses at University Medical Center won their union election by an overwhelming 82% in December of 2023, becoming the first unionized private hospital in Louisiana. 23 months later, hospital management and their corporate lawyers still have not agreed to the reasonable recommendations nurses have proposed to make the hospital safer and improve both patient care and working conditions.

On November 11, nurses will begin a three-day strike, because while hospital executives make millions in salaries and benefits, bedside nurses still aren't guaranteed even basic cost-of-living raises or pay that reflects their training and experience.  Everyone deserves to have a nurse who is fairly paid for their life-saving work in the community.

Your donation to the Nurses Support Fund directly impacts a nurse who is standing strong for a better hospital.  The fund helps a nurse with important needs like:

• Meeting their household's necessities as they sacrifice their wages during the three-day strike.

• Providing emergency relief following union-busting acts of retaliation by the hospital.

• Support through unexpected life events.

• Community outreach that union nurses and their allies lead across New Orleans.

Your donation today helps a nurse stand strong - on the picket line and beyond.  

To learn more about the New Orleans union nurses' fight: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/lcmc/charity-betrayed