The United American Nurses, California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association have announced they are joining together to form a new, 150,000-member association. The new organization will be called the United American Nurses-National Nurses Organizing Committee, UAN-NNOC (AFL-CIO).
A press release announcing the formation of the new union described the representation of all registered nurses (RNs) by a RN union as a “guiding principle.” The release noted that a substantial majority of the new union’s budget will be dedicated to organizing all non-union direct care RNs. Nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and the creation of a national Taft-Hartley pension for union RNs were also cited as priorities.
Read the press release.
