LARGO, Florida, on 10 December 2010/PRNewswire / - Oak Hill in Brooksville, Florida, North of Tampa, Florida Gulf Coast hospital nurses voted Thursday night to join to the nation grand Union and association of registered nurses, concluding a year remarkable growth for the United national nurses 160,000 members.
With a vote of 142 to 67, 69 pp. 100, a secret ballot elections by the National Labor Relations Board, the National Organizing Committee nurses and nursing-Florida, affiliate Reste una, Florida a breathtaking race six electoral victories in three weeks to six hospitals in the region Centre of Florida.
NNOC-Florida represent 300 nurses at Oak Hill, boosting to over 2,100 AI number newly organized which now represent the union in the State. Since mid-November, allowed to Largo Medical Center, Largo, Florida, Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte, community hospital again Port Richey, Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford, Florida and Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee, Florida, chose to join NNOC-Florida/una.
Nurses voted for NNOC-Florida/una by 74 percent combined in six elections.
This year, more than 8,000 nurses in Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, Texas and Washington, D.C. joined una. More than 5000 of those 13 hospitals in Florida, Missouri, Nevada and Texas as part of HCA, the largest hospital system in the United States.
"What a remarkable achievement of Florida AI and una in our efforts to transform health care." "This is a moment of pride and announces the tremendous promise for the future", said the General Director of una Rose Ann DeMoro. She paid tribute to "courageous nurses who have dreamed about for years on the creation of a powerful national movement of nurses".
"The HCA AI across the United States are gathering and speaking in one voice to improve conditions of work for ourselves and all nurses said Malinda Markowitz, RN HCA in California, national Vice President and President of the negotiating HCA for NNOC una una.".
"Nurses will have a real voice care for the patients and the decisions that affect our patients," said Markowitz. "To feel empowered and unified, we can work together to change the face of nursing and the time that our patients."
"This was one of the greatest years the NSA organize in history, and we believe that it is the beginning of a wave of RN organize in order to strengthen the voice of direct care AI for a period of crisis for healthcare in America," said una Organization Director David Johnson.
"We won!" Collective bargaining will pay off and we can now get the best care for our patients and our hospital. Now the work really begins, "said Oak Hill RN Dee-Ann Marsh."
"After 22 years, I feel justified," said Kim Scott, RN. "This is a victory for the hospital in Oak Hill, its nurses, patients and community."
National United of nurses is largest Union, the country and the professional association of nurses with 160,000 members across the country.
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