Social Justice Leadership Program
The Social Justice Leadership Program prepares nurses to build our union power to fight for social justice by becoming a skilled social justice facilitator!
- Social justice facilitators receive comprehensive instruction on racial justice, gender justice, and other urgent social justice issues.
- Facilitators work with labor representatives to organize and lead social justice workshops with their coworkers.
Social Justice Facilitator Overview
Workshop 1: Gender Justice for Union Nurses
In this interactive nurse-led workshop, RNs discuss how gender oppression affects nurses and our patients. We identify how union nurses and our patients have experienced gender inequity in our hospitals, deepen our understanding of what gender is and how it shapes the health care industry, and identify ways that union nurses can confront gender oppression in our facilities and beyond. This is a 1-hour discussion-based workshop. It is not a continuing education class.
Workshop 2: Racial Justice for Union Nurses
In this interactive nurse-led workshop, nurses discuss the effects of structural racism on patient care and nurses. Participants practice naming how public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, social norms, and economic and political power perpetuate racial inequities and build our collective understanding of how race operates in health care settings. Together, we will identify ways that union nurses can work to overcome racism and promote racial justice. This is a 1-hour discussion-based workshop. It is not a continuing education class.
For more information, see the program brochure.