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Global Nurses United

Global Nurses United (GNU) aims to step up fight against austerity, privatization, attacks on public health and work for safe nurse staffing ratios, and improved patient care for all.

Global Nurses United is a federation of the premiere nurse and health care worker unions in 29 nations, coming together to step up the fight against austerity, privatization, and attacks on public health—and to work for nurses’ and workers’ rights and improved patient care for all.

International Nurses Day 2020 COVID-19 Memorial

On International Nurses Day - May 12, 2020 - National Nurses United and Global Nurses United honor all nurses around the globe who have died as a result of insufficient PPE and infection control policies during the COVID-19 crisis. Click here for the full list of nurses.

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Global Nurses United Press Releases

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Global Nurses United condemns Russian invasion of Ukraine, ongoing attacks on health care facilities and personnel

GNU expresses its solidarity with the nurses and other health care professionals of Ukraine who are struggling mightily to provide care during this unprovoked invasion.

Global Nurses United
March 15, 2022

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Global Nurses United leaders urge World Trade Organization to support waiver to provide equitable and speedy vaccine access

Leaders of an international federation of nurse and health care worker unions from 27 countries, Global Nurses United (GNU), sent a letter today to the World Trade Organization (WTO), urging that it take immediate action “to dramatically mitigate and eventually end the catastrophic death and suffering caused by the Covid-19 pandemic” and “to ensure equitable and speedy vaccine production and distribution.”

Global Nurses United
March 9, 2021

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Global Nurses United demands World Health Organization strengthen Covid-19 guidance

Global Nurses United (GNU), a federation of the world’s premiere nurse and health care worker unions, today sent a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO), demanding that the WHO strengthen its guidance on Covid-19.

Global Nurses United
November 19, 2020

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Global Nurses United Leaders Demand World Health Organization Strengthen Its Guidance on Prevention and Control of Coronavirus

Leaders of an international federation of nurse and health care worker unions from 28 countries, Global Nurses United (GNU), sent a letter today to the World Health Organization, demanding that WHO strengthen its interim guidance on infection prevention and control of the novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV.

Global Nurses United
January 29, 2020

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Global Nurses United Leaders Unanimously Support Resolution on Justice For Immigrants

Leaders of an international federation of nurse and health care worker unions from 27 countries, Global Nurses United (GNU), voted unanimously to pass a resolution supporting climate and immigrant justice –– and condemning U.S. immigration policy that violates the human rights of migrants seeking asylum.

Global Nurses United'
July 26, 2019

Global Nurses United News

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Global Nurses United Press Clips

See a collection of links to news stories about nurses in other nations, and how they are advocating for their patients.

Global Nurses United
July 24, 2020

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Global Nurses United Press Clips

See a collection of links to news stories about nurses in other nations, and how they are advocating for their patients.

Global Nurses United
July 10, 2020

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Global Nurses United Press Clips

See a collection of links to news stories about nurses in other nations, and how they are advocating for their patients.

Global Nurses United
July 2, 2020

GNU Includes the following Unions:

Australia:

Brazil:

Canada:

Costa Rica:

Curaçao:

  • Curaçaose Bond van Werknemers in Verplegende en Verzorgende Instellingen (CBV, Curaçao)

Dominican Republic:

  • La Asociación Enfermera del Instituto Dominicano del Seguro Social, IDSS
  • Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de Enfermeria

Guatemala:

  • Sindicato Nacional de los Trabajadores de Salud de Guatemala

Greece:

Honduras:

  • Asociación Nacional de Enfermeras y Enfermeros Auxiliares de Honduras (ANEEAH)

India:

Ireland:

Israel:

  • National Association of Nurses

Italy

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