RN Power: National Nurses United Founding Convention December 2009

RNs across the country unite in a single organization, National Nurses United. Their goal: Staffing ratios that protect nurses and patients; RNs' rights to organize and patients' rights to quality care.

"When you take one of us on, you take all of us on," is the message as RNs from Maine, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Michigan, Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and many other states realize a lifelong goal - the formation of the largest union of it's kind dedicated to full-time patient advocacy and real healthcare reforms.

On the agenda: Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, a national staffing ratios bill, and Medicare-for-all, guaranteed healthcare for everyone.

Speakers include Karen Higgins, RN, Co-president of NNU; Jean Ross, RN, Co-president of NNU; Deborah Burger, RN, Co-President of NNU; Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive Director of NNU; Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO; and RNs from Texas to Canada who express their enthusiasm and support for National Nurses United.

Find out more at www.NationalNursesUnited.org

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• Maine State Nurses Association
• Michigan Nurses
• Minnesota Nurses
• EFCA
• staffing ratios
• single-payer healthcare
• medicare-for-all

[RN4MERCY]

Excellent and energizing! This video really captures the essence of our RN spirit of collective patient advocacy. Dynamic and eloquent speakers who are building and leading a historic social movement for healthcare justice in the US. Kudos to the videographer!