Video gallery
Fighting to Care
"Fighting to Care" presents the historic, revolutionary story of registered nurses committed to building a union that can take on the corporate hospital industry locally, nationally, and globally. Charting over a century of history of California Nurses Association, the film documents the organizing, collective bargaining, and direct action that spawned National Nurses United, the largest, fastest-growing, and most militant union of registered nurses in the United States. The film's story serves as a critical record of nurses' fights for patients, the nursing profession, and nurses' vision of a healthy society built on care.
Organizing
We can win anywhere; Nola nurses know
Hear from nurses at University Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana on why and how they voted to join NNOC/NNU.
We can organize and win — anywhere
Hear from nurses in Maine, North Carolina, and North Dakota on how and why they organized their hospitals.
Safe staffing ratios
Safe staffing ratios protect patient and nurses
Safe RN ratios have been proven to improve the quality of care and nurse recruitment and retention in California hospitals.
California and beyond
California is the only state in the country that puts a legal limit on the number of patients a nurse can be made to care for at one time. National Nurses United fights for safe staffing ratios in our union contracts and for federal legislation for safe staffing ratios.
Deadly Shame: Animated shorts
Care Penalty
Employers, lawmakers, and society at large have systematically devalued “care work,” labor that provides life-sustaining care to human beings and society.
Moral Distress
Nurses experience moral distress when we know the right thing to do, but institutional failure makes it impossible for us to do it.
Nurse Power
When we speak out and stand together as a union, using our collective strength, we prevail. This is the story of how our unity is our power.