Nurses across multiple hospitals plan one-day strikes.

Registered nurses at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis and Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph will join those at Ascension Seton Medical in Austin, Texas, in a one-day strike on Tuesday, June 27, the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU) announced on Thursday. The NNOC/NNU is demanding Ascension Via Christi address safe staffing protections and nurse recruitment and retention. The nurses union said chronic short-staffing has made it challenging for nurses to provide the highest quality of care to their patients because it drastically limits how much time a nurse can spend on each patient.