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National Nurses United AFL-CIO (NNU) is the nation’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses, and at the forefront of national efforts to transform the United States’ market-driven health care industry into a single-payer-style health care system. To nurses, reforming our health system is just one piece of building a social movement toward a more just and equitable society.

NNU is also well known for negotiating premiere collective bargaining contracts for registered nurses, for sponsoring the nation’s foremost safe RN staffing law, for unionization campaigns that have made it one of the fastest-growing unions in the country, and for innovative, award-winning political campaigns. NNU has 175,000 members in all 50 states.

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, NNU has fought fearlessly for nurses’ and patient safety. Beginning in January 2020, NNU wrote letters to every major organization and government entity it could, demanding the highest level of protections for nurses and health care workers; held actions at facilities across the country; conducted surveys of nurses on the front lines; and tracked nurse and health care workers deaths from Covid-19.