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6 CNA/NNU 101 » What is CNA/NNU? X 2017 RNs at Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock, Calif. and RNs at Hi-Desert Medical Center RNs in Joshua Tree, Calif., both Tenet facilities, vote to join CNA. Nurses support efforts around the country at passing state-based single-payer legislation, including the CNA- sponsored SB 562 in California, the Minnesota Health Plan, and a single-payer initiative in Maryland. As the new presidential administration quickly moved to ban refugees and travelers from certain countries, impose massive deregulation, and fill federal court seats with conservative judges, nurses and other progressive activists gather to strategize at the second People's Summit under the rallying theme, "Beyond Resistance." RNRN sends nurses to help in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in Texas and Puerto Rico. X 2018 Nurses join with labor unions across the country to protest the Janus v. AFSCME U.S. Supreme Court decision, which turns all public-sector bar- gaining units into "right to work" environments where workers can refuse to pay dues but still be represented by the union. Founding executive director of modern-day CNA/NNU, RoseAnn DeMoro, retires after 32 years leading the orga- nization. Bonnie Castillo, RN, a nurse leader who has served in numerous capacities within CNA/ NNU, steps in as the new executive director. CNA succeeds in initiating creation of Cal/OSHA standards to protect health care workers from noxious surgical plumes. More than 19,000 RNs and NPs at 21 Kaiser Permanente medical centers, clinics, and office buildings in Northern California ratify five-year contract that protects existing standards and adds 500 patient care coordinators and new patient care protections for Kaiser enrollees. Around 14,000 University of California registered nurses and nurse practi- tioners stage a two-day walkout as part of a historic sympathy strike with AFSCME and UPTE colleagues. Nurses protest the forcible separation by immigration officials of asylum-seeking families from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border. RNRN deploys teams of nurses to assist in the wake of the eruption of Volcan de Fuego in Guatemala, Hurricane Michael in Florida, and the devastating Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif. RNs at Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare in the Tri-Valley Area of California vote to join CNA. With this vote, the Livermore and Dublin campus RNs join RNs at the Pleasanton campus who voted to affiliate with CNA earlier in the year. RNs at Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia, Calif. vote over- whelmingly to join CNA. This vote represents the largest number of non- union nurses in Southern California to join a union in at least five years. X 2019 A federal ratios bill, sponsored by NNU and based on California's mandatory nurse-to- patient ratios law, is rein- troduced by Sen. Sherrod Brown in the Senate and Rep. Jan Schakowsky in the House. The Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act addresses an epidemic of deliberate understaffing in our nation's hospitals that puts patients and the public at risk. In a historic victory, RNs at Chinese Hospital in San Francisco vote to join CNA/NNU. This vote represents one of the last remaining nonunion hospitals in San Francisco. RNRN sends nurses to provide basic humani- tarian aid to immigrants at a shelter in Tucson, Ariz., and to provide relief to victims of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. Grassroots momentum for Medicare for All, led by nurses, results in the U.S. House of Representatives holding its first-ever hearing on NNU-endorsed Medicare for All legislation, and the bill's cosponsors grow to 118 members. CNA/NNOC hosts Global Nurses Solidarity Assembly in San Francisco, Calif., a three- day gathering of 1,500 nurses, labor leaders, and representatives from more than 25 countries to address a range of topics including global health, environmental and racial justice, and the fight against inhumane immigration policy. In a widely bipartisan vote, the U.S. House passes the groundbreaking H.R. 1309, the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, a bill strongly endorsed by NNU. The legislation holds employers accountable, through federal OSHA, for having a prevention plan in place to stop workplace violence before it occurs.