Nurses Unions Merge to Gain Greater Voice in Health Care

by James Parks, Dec 8, 2009

Delegates to the founding convention of National Nurses United vote unanimously for the merger.

Delegates to the founding convention of the National Nurses United (NNU) yesterday created the largest union and professional organization of registered nurses in U.S. history and immediately pledged to work to expand union representation of nurses and give them a greater voice in health care reform.

The NNU unites three nurses unions: the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), United American Nurses (UAN) and Massachusetts Nurses Association.

Karen Higgins, an RN from Massachusetts, and one of three newly elected co-presidents of the NNU, said:

The promise of the future has arrived with all the unlimited potential, creativity, vision, and power represented by the delegates in the room, and the 150,000 members of the founding organizations.

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