Large picket line of nurses holding various signs

Temperatures are rising up across the country — and so are union nurses

We've been bringing the heat for months now: in our workplaces, in our state capitals, in the halls of our U.S. Congress, and everywhere union nurses can stand up and fight collectively for a healthier, safer society.

Nurse holds sign "Science matters. We are not disposable."

Urge the CDC and HICPAC to fully recognize aerosol transmission and protect health care workers and patients

New dangerous federal guidance currently being debated could lower standards of protection from infectious diseases in our health care facilities, endangering our patients.

Nurses holding sign that reads "Staff up for safe care!"

Community First Medical Center nurses ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention

Registered nurses at Community First Medical Center in Chicago, Ill., voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new 40-month contract winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse recruitment and retention.

Press releases

President Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, RN, of National Nurses United was honored to speak at today’s celebration of the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, marking the 60th anniversary of the march.
Registered nurses at Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka and at Providence Redwood Memorial Hospital voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.
Registered nurses at Sutter Davis Hospital in Davis, Calif. voted last night to join California Nurses Association (CNA), an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest and fastest-growing registered nurse (RN) union.
NNU delivered a petition signed by nearly 11,000 individuals and organizations to the CDC and its Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, urging them to fully recognize aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens and to strengthen the CDC’s Isolation Precautions guidance.

Organize with National Nurses United to improve workplace standards through collective bargaining, reform national health care legislation, and make a difference for you and your patients.

National Nurse Magazine

By the Numbers: New York City nurses win unprecedented contract enforcement of safe staffing standards

Mount Sinai RNs blaze trail to better staffing enforcement

Not only did nurses win new ratios in their contract, but they also won strong new staffing enforcement language.

VA registered nurses sign three-year contract

Nurses call for schedule flexibility and passage of VA Employee Fairness Act