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10 » RNs in Motion 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. Major improvements in patient-care protections, enhanced professional and economic standards, including professional practice committee, staffing by acuity, ban on mandatory overtime, and equitable salary step. Jackson Park Hospital RNs vote by 85 percent to join the union, bringing the total of our union's represented RNs in Chicago to nearly 5,000. 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. More than 500 RNs at three Community Health Systems (CHS) hospitals in West Virginia and Ohio vote to join NNOC: Affinity Medical Center in Massillon, Ohio; Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, W.V.; and Greenbrier Valley Medical Center in Ronceverte, W.V. 2013 Registered nurses at Sierra Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, vote to join NNOC. RNs at Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C. become first nonunion District hospital in decades to unionize. Nurses across the country win a massive wave of first contracts! RNs at Jackson Park Hospital in Illinois, Florida Medical Center and Palmetto General Hospital in South Florida, Saint Louis University Hospital and Des Peres Hospital in Missouri, and Providence Memorial and Sierra Medical Center in Texas all ratify first collective bargaining agreements. 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 to fight austerity measures and work collectively to win universal health care as a human right for all. RNRN deploys teams of volunteer RNs to the Philippines in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda, one of the worst storms on record. 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, with nurses across California and Washington, D.C. striking over this issue and cuts to patient care. CNA sponsors and wins S.B. 1299, the nation's strongest workplace violence prevention legislation, despite staunch opposition from the hospital industry. Providence Hospital nurses in Washington, D.C. win first contract. VA RNs in San Diego vote to unionize. 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. In testament to the growing power of NNOC-represented nurses who work at HCA-affiliated hospitals, RNs approve contracts covering nearly 8,000 RNs at 17 HCA-affiliated facilities in five states. 2016 Nurses host the People's Summit in Chicago, gathering more than 3,000 nurses and progressive allies to discuss and plan how to grow the movement for social justice. NNOC and NNU launch the Nurses Health and Safety campaign, 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.