National Nurses United (NNU), with nearly 225,000 members nationwide, is the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in U.S. history.
NNU affiliate members are renowned as leading advocates of guaranteed health care, fighting for expanding and updating Medicare to cover all people in the United States, for negotiating many of the best collective bargaining contracts for RNs in the nation, and for sponsorship of innovative legislation and regulatory protections for patients and nurses.
Through energetic advocacy we are organizing to:
- Win health care justice; accessible, quality health care for all, as a human right.
- Win major national legislation to promote comprehensive, mandatory RN-to-patient staffing ratios modeled on successful California laws sponsored by NNU affiliate CNA.
- Attain guaranteed robust protections against workplace violence with an emphasis on prevention through collective bargaining agreements, regulations, and legislation at the federal level, modeled on California’s 2014 landmark workplace violence prevention bill.
- Secure mandatory health and safety standards in the workplace to protect patients and nurses against infectious diseases such as Covid-19, building on the precedent-setting Ebola guidelines won in California, and advocate for regulatory policy and collective bargaining agreements that guarantee nurses the education, training, and personal protective equipment they need at work.