National Nurses Organizing Committee

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A national movement for RNs

We are a national union and professional organization for RNs who are pursuing an ambitious agenda of patient advocacy that promotes the interests of patients, direct-care nurses, and RN professional practice. Read more »

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NNOC 101

Your guide to joining the RN movement. Learn more about our program, our history, and how we are organized.

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Where we are

NNOC and CNA now represent more than 150,000 RNs in about 300 facilities throughout the nation, including Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Press releases

Registered nurses at Del Sol and Las Palmas medical centers in El Paso, Texas, voted in favor of ratifying new three-year contracts this week, winning measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention.
Registered nurses at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Martinsburg, West Virginia. will hold an informational picket on Friday, October 11 to highlight the administration’s refusal to bargain with nurses over flexible scheduling policies that would improve patient care and nurse retention.
Registered nurses at Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent, Maine are demanding greater transparency from management after its abrupt closure of the Child Adolescent Psychiatric Unit.
Registered nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., voted in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract this week, winning measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention.

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

National Nurse Magazine

Shot in the Arm: NNU nurses inject values of care, compassion, community into presedential election, endorse Harris-Walz

VA nurses across country fight for safe staffing, protest hiring freeze

RNs at Veterans Affairs hospitals around the country held a national week of action in August. 

Permanent Damage

Because our government and employers failed to protect nurses, thousands of us will struggle to live with Long Covid for the rest of our lives, jeopardizing our livelihoods and careers.

Winning Big

How UCLA’s PPC stopped the practice of doubling patients in single-occupancy rooms