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6 NNOC 101 » What Are NNOC and NNU? VA nurses rally against major administration attacks on their union rights by eliminating "offi- cial time" for VA nurses who represent coworkers and leaving their negoti- ated contract in limbo. RNRN deploys nurses to assist in the wake of sev- eral disasters: 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's ValleyCare in the Tri-Valley Area of California vote to join CNA. 1,000 RNs at Carondelet St. Mary's Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital, Tenet facilities in Tucson, Ariz., vote to join NNOC, making these the first unionized RNs in the state of Arizona. RNs at Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia, California, vote overwhelmingly to join CNA. X 2019 In a historic victory, RNs at Chinese Hospital in San Francisco vote to join CNA. 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. 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. Continuing the organizing wins at Tenet facilities in California and Arizona, 500 RNs at The Hospitals of Providence East in El Paso, Texas vote to join NNOC. X 2020 NNU begins monitoring the Covid-19 virus in January and over the following weeks, writes to almost every global and federal health and workplace safety agency and leader to adopt the highest standards and protections against the virus. RNs at Research Psychiatric Center, HCA, in Kansas City, Mo., vote to join NNOC/NNU. NNU conducts the first of multiple national surveys of RNs during the Covid- 19 pandemic, document- ing serious deficiencies in PPE and other protections for frontline health workers. For Nurses Week, NNU nurses speak out for Covid-19 protections at events across the country, including the #ProtectNurses online art show, a 1,000-person online vigil in honor of fallen nurses, and a pro- test at the White House, placing one pair of shoes for every nurse who died of Covid. On Aug. 5, thousands of RNs hold more than 200 actions in 16 states and the District of Columbia demanding that hospital employers, elected lead- ers, and the government take immediate steps to save lives during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. TIME magazine names NNU Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, RN, to the 2020 TIME 100, its annual list of the most influential people in the world. HCA Mission Hospital RNs in Asheville, N.C., vote by a landslide to join NNOC. This is the first private- sector hospital union election win ever in North Carolina, and the largest at any nonunion hospital in the South since 1975. Nurses score a tremen- dous victory when the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) directs all general acute- care hospitals to begin Covid-19 weekly testing of all health care workers and all patient admissions. NNU issues the report "Deadly Shame: Redressing the Devaluation of Registered Nurses' Labor Through Pandemic Equity." In November the Michigan Nurses Association, repre- senting 13,000 members, votes to affiliate with National Nurses United. X 2021 Newly elected President Biden advances NNU's demands by activating the Defense Production Act and calling for a federal OSHA emergency temporary standard on infectious diseases. RNs at UChicago Medicine Ingalls in Harvey, Ill., a suburb south of Chicago, vote overwhelmingly to ratify their historic first contract.