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5 NNOC 101 » What Are NNOC and NNU? X 2008 1,100 RNs in three Las Vegas CHW (now Dignity/ CommonSpirit Health) hospitals vote to join NNOC. X 2009 Unanimous vote creates largest RN union in U.S. history: National Nurses United (NNU). 7,000 Veterans Affairs (VA) RNs in 22 hospitals in 11 states become members of NNU. 1,300 RNs at three St. Rose Dominican hospitals in Las Vegas, Nev. vote to join NNOC. Nurses at HCA-affiliated Menorah Medical Center in Overland, Kan. vote to join NNOC. X 2010 8,000 HCA and Tenet RNs in Nevada, Texas, Missouri, and Florida vote to join NNOC. 14,000 RNs sign up to volunteer for Haiti earthquake relief through RNRN, which sends nurses aboard USNS Comfort and to Sacré Coeur Hospital. 1,300 RNs at the University of Chicago Medical Center vote to join the union, followed by 1,600 RNs at Washington, D.C.'s largest hospital, Washington Hospital Center. X 2011 NNU begins "Nurses Campaign to Heal America," calling for health care, good jobs, education, a clean envi- ronment, and retirement security for all, with reve- nue generated through a Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street speculation. X 2012 650 RNs at HCA MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas win model first NNOC contract. Historic first agreement for 3,100 RNs at 10 Florida Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) facilities. Jackson Park Hospital RNs vote by 85 percent to join the union. RNs lead 6,000 in Chicago rally on the eve of the G-8 and NATO summits, promote Nurses Campaign to Heal America. RNs at two St. Louis–area hospitals vote to join NNOC in the same month: Saint Louis University Hospital and Des Peres Hospital. X 2013 Registered nurses at Sierra Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, vote to join NNOC. Nurses from the Midwest, to Florida, to Texas win a massive wave of first contracts! NNOC and NNU join nurses' and health care workers' unions in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe to create Global Nurses United. RNRN deploys teams of volunteer RNs to the Philippines in the after- math of Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. X 2014 NNU launches "Insist on an RN" multimedia campaign to raise public awareness that health care technology cannot supplant the knowledge and experience of bedside nurses. NNU sounds alarm on hospitals' lack of Ebola preparedness. CNA sponsors and wins S.B. 1299, the nation's strongest workplace violence prevention legislation. VA RNs in San Diego vote to unionize. X 2015 Nurses step up political activism, opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and celebrating Medicare's 50th anniversary in cities across the country. In August, NNU was the first national union to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders for the 2016 presidential race. X 2016 Nurses host the People's Summit in Chicago, gath- ering more than 3,000 nurses and progressive allies to discuss and plan how to grow the move- ment for social justice. NNOC and NNU launch the Nurses Health and Safety division, a national network of nurses and allies committed to collectively advocate for nurse and patient health and safety through direct action, and in the legislative and regulatory arenas. RNRN sends volunteer nurses to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation to provide medical support for Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protesters protecting the Missouri River watershed. Texas RNs at HCA- affiliated Bayview Behavioral Health in Corpus Christi join NNOC. X 2017 Hospice of Southern Maine workers and Maine Coast Memorial ancillary staff unionize with NNOC. Nurses and other pro- gressive activists gather to strategize at the second People's Summit under the rallying theme "Beyond Resistance" in response to new presi- dential administration. RNRN deploys more than 50 volunteer nurses as part of larger AFL-CIO mission to Puerto Rico in wake of Hurricane Maria. X 2018 RoseAnn DeMoro, founding executive director of modern-day CNA/NNOC, retires after 32 years. Bonnie Castillo, RN, a nurse leader who has served in numerous capacities within CNA/ NNOC and NNU, becomes the new executive director. 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.