Why Is This The Time for an RN Super-Union?
From the new nurses’ super-union, National Nurses United. A PDF of this flyer can be downloaded to pass along to colleagues.Nurses from coast to coast have yearned for a powerful, national movement of direct-care RNs to strengthen our voice at the bedside and in the […]
San Francisco Chronicle: Nurses unions join together for more clout
“Nurses from three unions, including the powerful California Nurses Association, have founded a new national union to influence national health care policies and try to extend California’s patient ratio law into other states.Organizers said the 150,000-member National Nurses United, the largest professional union for registered […]
Nursing Unions Are About To”Go Hard Or Go Home.”
LaTonia Denise Wright of Nursing-Jurist.com writes about the new nurses super-union, National Nurses United, “the nursing unions are about to ‘go hard or go home.’ Don’t know what this slang means just Google it!… A nursing revolution or the evolution of nursing, maybe? Changes are […]
Present at the Birth: The National Nurses Movement by Chico David RN
Present at the Birth: The National Nurses Movementby Chico David, RNI’m writing from Phoenix Arizona where I just spent the morning with hundreds of nurses from around the country finalizing the creation of the new nurses union that will transform health care in America: National […]
Unanimous Vote Creates Largest RN Union in U.S. History
For Immediate ReleaseDecember 7, 2009RNs Pledge Major Boost in Organizing, Voice in CongressPHOENIX – To standing cheers, delegates to the founding convention of the National Nurses United (NNU) today unanimously endorsed the creation of the largest union and professional organization of registered nurses in U.S. […]
Have You Hugged Your Nurse Today?
The folks over at the Executive Labor Summary Blog by Constangy Brooks & Smith LLC—management lawyers have noticed that the nurses have been up to something:”The stage is now set for the formation of a new 150,000-member super union for registered nurses at a founding […]
CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro on the House bill on Healthcare
Of all the torrent of words that followed House passage of its version of healthcare reform legislation in early November, perhaps the most misleading were those comparing it to enactment of Social Security and Medicare.Sadly no. Social Security and Medicare were both federal programs guaranteeing […]
Fight the Insurance Lobby…Tell Congress What YOU Think
According to Organizing for America, “The House’s first full vote on health reform legislation may come as early as this week. It’ll be the first time in more than 60 years that the full body votes on comprehensive reform, and we expect it to be […]
URGENT ~ H1N1 Updates For RNs
The California Nurses Association has issued a position statement with regard to medical practices and vaccinations for RNs. “As the H1N1 (swine influenza) pandemic escalates in our facilities and our communities, the CNA/NNOC Board of Directors has adopted a position statement on the role of […]