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Your Hospital Won’t Protect You: How Nursing Unions Protect Nurses and Patients w/ NNU
39 minutes Posted Jul 13, 2026 at 4:00 am.
Cold Open And Welcome
What A Nurse Union Is
Joining In A Right-To-Work State
Why Schools Skip Union Education
Contract Wins Ratios Breaks Pay
What A Nurse Strike Really Is
Pandemic Catalyst For Organizing
Union Support And Daily Resources
Advice Know Rights Use Your Voice
Closing Strong Nurses Safer Patients
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Your first nursing job can feel like a test you never studied for: short staffing, missed breaks, supply shortages, and that sinking sense that if something goes wrong, your license is on the line. We sit down with Kristine and Monica, RNs and union representatives with National Nurses United, to spell out what a nurse union actually is and why it matters for real bedside nursing, not just politics or headlines. We dig into the problems that push nurses to organize, including unsafe patient ...