Union nurses are proud to announce that this Friday, we plan to officially endorse
@BernieSanders
in the Democratic Party presidential primary!
Press release:
.
@AOC
is right- When nurses,
#veterans
and community leaders join together there is nothing we can't accomplish! United, we will defend and protect the VA against privatization.
#NurseLife
We condemn the
@CDCgov
's decision to lump Covid-19 guidance in with other respiratory viruses and to shorten its isolation period from five days to potentially just 24 hours!
This doesn't align with the science and will inevitably lead to more infections.
Last night NNU nurses canvassed and rallied for Bernie Sanders on the eve of the Nevada Caucus.
This grassroots movement for
@BernieSanders
and
#MedicareForAll
is growing across the country and nurses can't be stopped.💪
#UnionStrong
In the past few weeks, the U.S. has seen an increase in pediatric respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections and hospitalizations. Why? These are four truths about RSV that we know right now. 🧵👇
Nurses are proud to endorse
@JoeBiden
and
@KamalaHarris
for a second term!
Their track record of support for union workers & efforts to
#ProtectNurses
have shown that they have our backs. We’re happy to have their backs in the 2024 presidential race too.
We are endorsing
@BernieSanders
because his platform aligns with our values on a host of issues:
💪 Rebuilding the labor movement,
🌎 A
#GreenNewDeal
for climate justice,
🏥
#MedicareForAll
to guarantee health care, & more!
Watch live @ 1:30 PT:
Union
#nurses
know that
@AOC
is a champion of the values we hold dear: caring, compassion, and community.
That's why we are so proud to endorse her for Congress in New York's 14th District!
Why are union nurses fighting for
#PresidentSanders
?
👏 BECAUSE
👏 HEALTH
👏 CARE
👏 IS
👏 A
👏 HUMAN
👏 RIGHT
@BernieSanders
: "I think we will pass
#MedicareForAll
-- and I will introduce that legislation in my first week in office!"
BERNIE IS RIGHT: We will pass
#MedicareForAll
!
30,000 die every year because they can't afford to get the care they need.
Nurses aren't here for incremental changes to our health care system. We’re tired of seeing our patients suffer so corporations can profit.
#DemDebate
In a LANDSLIDE vote by 70%, Asheville, North Carolina
@HCAhealthcare
Mission Hospital nurses vote YES to join the nation’s largest RN union to secure a powerful voice for improved care and workplace safety! 🎉
Press Release ➡️
Norway believes that if you are sick that is stressful enough the healthcare system shouldn't add to that stress.
In Norway
#SinglePayer
means you don’t have to worry about cost or quality of care. They spend 2/3rds of what US spends & have better health outcomes.
#Medicare4All
Nurses know how to protect the public’s health: We need a multilayered approach to infection control.
Masking, social distancing, vaccination, testing, contract tracing, staying home when sick, & paid sick leave will help keep everyone safe.
There’s no evidence we have “immunity debt.” So what’s to blame? Abandonment of public health measures that have helped protect us from Covid & other respiratory illnesses.
In fact, Covid infections & long Covid are likely contributing to the significant impact of RSV.
You don’t have to repeatedly expose yourself to viruses to keep your immune system strong.
False claims that kids are more susceptible to RSV because of pandemic precautions doesn’t help children — it actually ignores individual risks for severe Covid infections.
Union RNs placed shoes outside the White House, each pair representing a nurse lost due to insufficient PPE during
#COVID19
.
Put yourself in their shoes.
Honor the fallen.
And fight like hell for the living.
Call Congress NOW and demand they
#ProtectNurses
: (202) 335-6015
Once again,
@CDCgov
is making terrible recommendations regarding the spread of Covid-19 & other respiratory viruses!
People with Covid infections often remain infectious well beyond 5 days, but CDC thinks 24 hours of isolation is plenty. Here's why nurses are outraged. 🧵 (1/5)
“
#MedicareForAll
is not an idea that came to you yesterday. You have led this country in the understanding that health care is a human right, not a privilege, and I thank you for that!”
—
@BernieSanders
#NursesForBernie
As we continue to see significantly high levels of Covid transmissions in the U.S., now is not the time for
@CDCgov
to roll back protections for nurses, health care workers, and our patients.
We deserve to be protected in the workplace!
Masking in public spaces demonstrates solidarity and is a critical component of a multiple-measures approach to
#StopTheSpread
of the triple-demic of respiratory viruses that are sweeping through the U.S.
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Time for the U.S. to catch up. Time for
#MedicareForAll
.
How will we win
#MedicareForAll
?
@SenSanders
: We'll do it the way real change has always taken place--> when tens of millions of people stand together and demand health care as a human right, just like working people have done in the labor, civil rights movements.
#DemDebate
Health care corporations are closing hospitals in rural communities and moving to areas where they can turn a bigger profit, leaving our patients unable to get the care they need.
#MedicareForAll
will restore health care services in rural communities! 🏥❤️
On a daily basis nurses see patients cutting pills in half and waiting until the last minute to seek treatment. It's heartbreaking and unacceptable! Our nation deserves a healthcare system that puts patients over profits!
#MedicareForAll
#BernieTownHall
Nurses are excited that
@BenJealous
moves forward to November. This is a big win for
#MedicareForAll
. NNU's endorsed candidate represents the people & nurses' values. Congrats!
Many children have been exposed to RSV throughout the pandemic. Yes, even with masking & stay-at-home orders.
In fact, positivity rates were higher in 2021 than they are now. But RSV infections only provide partial immunity, which means people can be infected again.
“We nurses have been fighting to win health care as a human right, to win
#MedicareForAll
for decades. And you know who has been with us all along?
@BernieSanders
!”
— Jean Ross, RN and NNU President
#NursesForBernie
Sen.
@BernieSanders
has long been a champion for working people — one that union nurses are proud to stand with in the fights for workplace democracy, economic justice, and Medicare for All!
#NursesForBernie
#Bernie2020
“
#MedicareForAll
will save the average American substantial sums of money.
We will expand Medicare to include dental care, eye glasses, hearing aids and home health care as well.”
Nurses stand with
@BernieSanders
in the fight for health care justice!
#DemDebate
National Nurses United is proud to endorse
@Booker4KY
for U.S. Senate because he has demonstrated that he is an effective advocate for the health and economic well-being of Kentucky’s working families!
Press Release ➡️
We need a president who makes it easier for us to stand together and hold our employers accountable for putting people above profits.
@BernieSanders
will be that president!
Watch our official endorsement event live from Oakland @ 1:30 PT:
"We have a healthcare system that is not designed to provide quality care. We have a healthcare system designed to make enormous profits for insurance companies & drug companies." -
@SenSanders
Nurses say: It's BEYOND time we put patients over profits!
#MedicareForAllTownHall
On behalf of 150,000 Registered Nurses across the country, we applaud all the Congressmembers who have joined the
#MedicareForAll
Caucus👏🏾
Our current system is failing millions of people.
#SinglePayer
will ensure therapeutic health care for all.
#M4ACaucus
#ThursdayThoughts
After a deadly pandemic & major public outcry,
@CDCgov
still approved a draft of infectious disease guidance that is WEAKER than the current standards.
What’s worse? They’re continuing to close out the public by giving only 5 days to provide feedback.
“In the wealthiest country in the history of the world millions of people are working in abysmally low wages without decent benefits. We want an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1%.” -
@sensanders
#unionstrong
It is not a radical idea to say that every person who goes to the doctor should be able to afford their prescription. We should not tolerate a system that allows for CEOs to become billionaires charging $1k/pill. -
@SenSanders
at the
#MedicareForAll
Act of 2019 bill drop
"30 million people in America have no health insurance and even more are under-insured." -
@SenSanders
CEOs shouldn't pull the strings of whether of not you have health care. Nurses know --> we need
#MedicareforALL
!
#CEOsvsWorkers
National Nurses United is proud to endorse Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14)!
@Ocasio2018
embodies nurses' values of caring, compassion, and community and will be a champion for improved and expanded
#MedicareForAll
!
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Join RNs in voting
@BernieSanders
!
#Bernie2020
The thought of a nursing shift where you’d have time for a game of rummy is laughable at best -- and an insult to the most trusted profession at worst. Shame on you, Sen. Maureen Walsh!
#Nurse
#NurseLife
Trust me, nurses haven’t earned the title "most trusted profession" for seventeen years running by "playing cards" on our shifts. WA Sen. Maureen Walsh should be ashamed to use
#nurses
to score cheap political points like this.
#1U
#nurseslife
"This campaign is about the working families of this country.
It is time to take on the big money interests, it is time to change our national priorities."
Working people are coming together to elect
@BernieSanders
and to build a movement!
#DemDebate
For nurses, having the right to take collective action for our patients is a life or death issue.
@BernieSanders
is leading the way on restoring workers’ right to organize unions & bargain collectively.
👩⚕️More on
#NursesForBernie
in the
@nytimes
-->
#1u
🎉 BREAKING: New
@washingtonpost
-
@ABC
poll shows 83% who are in favor of universal health care want a
#MedicareForAll
system WITHOUT the option of private insurance. 🎉
Nurses and the people know: Insurance has NO place in health care!
#WednesdayWisdom
Thousands of NNU nurses care for veterans, and are vehemently opposed to any actions by the federal government that disrupt the
#USPS
, or interfere with our patients' abilities to receive life-sustaining medications by mail.
Nurses say:
#SaveThePostOffice
!
Veterans like
@Sky_Lee_1
served our country & shouldn't have to wait. But Pres Trump & Postmaster General DeJoy's delays are slowing VA meds for hundreds of thousand of vets! We must
#SaveThePostOffice
Union nurses have been campaigning for
@BernieSanders
throughout the country!
Today, RN and NNU Vice President Cokie Giles is braving the cold weather in Manchester, NH:
🙌 We can win this because we are building a movement! 🙌
#Bernie2020
#NHprimary
💥 BERNIE 💥 WINS 💥 NEVADA! 💥
This victory is a testament to the powerful organizing work of grassroots activists in the Battle Born state!
#NevadaCaucus
#Bernie2020
We see Australia burning.
We saw California burning.
The drought in Iowa makes it harder for farmers to produce food.
We have got to take on the fossil fuel industry: their short term profits are not more important than the future of this planet!
#DemDebate
#GreenNewDeal
BANDANAS 👏
ARE 👏
NOT 👏
PROTECTION 👏
We need REAL personal protective equipment for nurses and other frontline health care workers.
Tell Trump to use his full authority under the
#DefenseProductionAct
to
#ProtectNurses
NOW:
We are delighted to announce our endorsement of
@AOC
for re-election to Congress in
#NY14
. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has been a stalwart friend of RNs in New York and across the country and has been a great progressive leader in the House.
We’re proud to stand with her!
"I work hard and I'm not asking for a private jet, I'm asking to be able to provide for my son." - Adriana Alvarez
@McDonalds
worker.
All workers deserve a living wage!
#FightFor15
#CEOsvsWorkers
Nurses hit the streets for
#WomensMarch2020
in Washington, DC! ✊️❤️
“We are marching to combat the forces that try to push us back. We advocate for all women and the public, that’s what nurses do!”
- Jean Ross, RN, NNU President
#WomensMarch
@aflcio
Pssst...
@CDCgov
is secretly trying to weaken infection control guidance. This means you're more at risk of getting sick if you work in or visit a hospital, clinic, or nursing home.
Any kind of infection: measles, tuberculosis, Covid, influenza. Here's what's going on. 🧵 (1/7)
RNs visit the southern edge of
#SanJuan
municipality, where there's been no contact w/FEMA or official relief. RN Lucia Lopez treated the youngest child in this family for a rash due to sleeping in a roofless house on soaking wet furniture for weeks.
#PuertoRicoRelief
Tìo
@BernieSanders
at the
#RealAm
érica forum..
“In my first week, I will reestablish the legal status of
#DACA
recipients AND their parents.
In my first 100 days, we will introduce comprehensive immigration reform legislation.”
#cadem2019
🚨BIG NEWS!🚨 A
@CDCgov
advisory committee was planning to weaken infection control guidance, but has altered its course — thanks to months of tireless nurse advocacy!
Here are the latest updates and why this is such a BFD. 👇🧵 (1/8)
Thank you to everyone taking action today to
#StopKavanaugh
.
Registered nurses are outraged and stand with you! The impending Kavanaugh confirmation sends a clear message to women, sexual assault survivors and working people: We do not care about you.
#BelieveWomen
If you caught our livestream on facebook, you know we just organized thousands of women, survivors, and allies to flood the Capitol, climb over police barriers, and take over the Capitol Steps. We estimate over 250 were arrested.
#CancelKanavaugh