National Nurses Organizing Committee

A national movement for RNs

We are a national union and professional organization for RNs who are pursuing an ambitious agenda of patient advocacy that promotes the interests of patients, direct-care nurses, and RN professional practice. Read more »

NNOC 101

Your guide to joining the RN movement. Learn more about our program, our history, and how we are organized.

Where we are

NNOC and CNA now represent more than 150,000 RNs in about 300 facilities throughout the nation, including Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Press releases

Five nurses stand side-by-side outside holding signs criticizing UMC/LCMC

New Orleans nurses unsurprised that LCMC Healthcare makes “Dirty Dozen” list of employers for 2025

Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans are unsurprised to see that their employer, LCMC Health, has been named a 2025 Dirty Dozen employer by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, a national organization dedicated to strengthening workplace health and safety.

April 24, 2025

Group of nurses in front of "Gateway Crossing" bridge with huge print out of petition signatures

Houlton Regional Hospital nurses and community members hold candlelight vigil to protest planned department closure

Tonight, nurses from Houlton Regional Hospital’s (HRH) Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Postpartum (LDRP) unit were again joined by scores of community members for a candlelight vigil in a protest against the proposed closure of their hospital’s LDRP department.

April 23, 2025

Nurses marching in front of the Frist Art Museum

Nurses to protest outside Frist Gala in Nashville

RNs from HCA hospitals in several states will unite outside the 2025 Frist Gala at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, April 26, to hand out flyers to gala attendees. RNs hope the flyers will start conversations with the black-tie gala’s guests about the Frist family’s role in making HCA Healthcare a sprawling for-profit empire notorious among nurses and patients for unsafe staffing levels and suboptimal care conditions.

April 23, 2025

Nurse on picket line in the rain, wearing ponchos, holding signs "No Cuts: A Healthy VA = Health Veterans"

Nurses, federal workers at Atlanta VA Medical Center to urge protection of veteran services

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United and American Federation of Government Employees Local 518 (AFGE Local 518) will hold a protest on Saturday, April 26 in response to the current administration’s directive for large-scale reductions-in-force (RIFs) and elimination of union workers’ collective bargaining rights.

April 23, 2025

All NNOC press releases

Organize with National Nurses Organizing Committee to improve workplace standards through collective bargaining, reform national health care legislation, and make a difference for you and your patients.