Nurses

The 75,000 nurses of AFSCME United Nurses of America are working in unity to advance quality and accountability in the healthcare setting through organizing, political action and nursing practice. Together, United Nurses of America members across the country are winning wage, benefit and other improvements such as mandatory minimum nurse-to-patient ratios through strong collective bargaining agreements with our employers – and advocating for legislation and policies to increase health care funding, improve quality care, and institute safer working conditions and protections for nurses. Across the country, we are reaching out to other nurses who want to join AFSCME-UNA. As our numbers grow, so does our power to improve our jobs, the care we deliver and the quality of our lives.

Adriene Speights, LPN

“Contract negations usually go smoothly for the employees at North Philadelphia Health System, but the only reason we have the benefits and wages we do is because we have a union.”

Elizabeth Hawkins, RN

“I’ve been a nurse for 40 years, 31 of those in the emergency department.

Kelly Indish, RN

“In our union contract, we won staffing levels that can help reduce burnout among nurses and improve patient safety and outcomes. We would not have accomplished this without our collective power as a union.”