National Nurses United, AFL-CIO

National Nurses United, AFL-CIO, with nearly 225,000 members nationwide, is the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in U.S. history.

In 2009, California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee played a lead role in bringing state nursing associations across the nation together into one national organization, National Nurses United (NNU). At its founding convention, NNU adopted a call for action to counter the national assault by the healthcare industry on patient care conditions and standards for nurses, and to promote a unified vision of collective action for nurses.

NYSNA members voted to affiliate with National Nurses United in 2022.

NNU affiliate members are renowned as leading advocates of guaranteed health care, fighting for expanding and updating Medicare to cover all people in the United States, for negotiating many of the best collective bargaining contracts for RNs in the nation, and for sponsorship of innovative legislation and regulatory protections for patients and nurses.

The dream that inspired NNU’s creation is now an exciting reality – NNU has built a powerful movement of frontline nurses and that movement is growing in the United States and globally!

NYSNA members represented for collective bargaining are also members of NNU.

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Learn more about National Nurses United’s courses, workshops, and classes by visiting their Continuing Education Calendar.