Nevada Nurses Vote to Join CNA/NNOC

by James Parks, Apr 2, 2009

The 1,100 registered nurses at three St. Rose Dominican hospitals in Las Vegas and Henderson, Nev., voted by a 3-1 margin last night to join the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC).

The RNs work at the Siena and Rose de Lima campuses in Henderson and the San Martin facility in Las Vegas. The hospitals are part of the Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) system, where the union already represents 10,500 other RNs at 30 sites in California and Nevada.

Last September, RNs at another CHW hospital, St. Mary’s Medical Center in Reno, Nev., reached a groundbreaking contract that includes safe staffing levels for patient protection, respect of union rights and pay and benefit improvements.

The 500 St. Mary’s nurses, who overwhelmingly voted to join the CNA/NNOC in December 2007, won nurse-to-patient staffing levels identical to the levels mandated by California’s first-in-the-nation safe staffing level regulations.

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