New national nurses union forms - page 16

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Was surfing around this site and found this- it would be interesting to get some up dated opinnions on 2 yr old thread. The NNU seems to have pick up some power and made some strides.
The NNU was a very bold and brave step.

Short form update: both on the organizing front and on the political/social movement front, NNU has been pretty active. More members in more states, including places like Texas and Florida that have hardly been hotbeds of union activity. Making substantial inroads into some of the big for-profit hospital chains, which is important, both because they are widespread and because they tend to oppress their nurses pretty badly.
I'd say the biggest disappointment is that the progress toward true unity and integration have come a little slower than I might have hoped. While we are unified in many ways, there is still an understanable reluctance of some states to give up autonomy and move toward true integration. It will come, but not as fast as some of us might have dreamed.

I think National Nurses United is a great idea! Nurses across the country see how smart it is to have nurse to patient ratios that are based on nursing judgement not the hospital's bottom line. I work in CA and have had so many travelers tell me that they won't go back to 8 or more to 1 on the floors or 4 or more to 1 on step down or 3 to 1 in the ICU. They get that safe staffing saves lives and saves our sanity and RN licenses. Pushing for proper nurse to patient ratios is just one thing NNU does. And you can see that they have been successful by looking at the contract the HCA Florida RNs just got.