Identify Your Organizing Committee

It’s important to identify nurses to serve as an organizing committee, the group of RNS who will support your campaign—recruiting new members, distributing information about your campaign, answering nurses’ questions, getting the facts out there when management spreads rumors, identifying workplace concerns and more.

Find activists within your facility willing to stand up and talk about nurses' rights to organize a union and what a union can bring to the workers. Work to find 10 percent of nurses willing to serve on the committee from across the facility—every unit, every floor. When managers say, "It's just the disgruntled nurses who want a union," you'll know that's false.

Start on the road to organizing your own UAN nurses’ union:

• Make the decision
• Identify Your OC
• Learn About Your Unit
• Go Public
• Stay the course
• Crossing the Finish Line