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California Nurses Association >> Media Center >> In The News >> 2008 >> March

 

Houston Nurses Vote For Union

By James Parks
AFL-CIO
March 31, 2008

While most Texans are mourning the Texas Longhorns’ loss in the NCAA basketball tournament yesterday, nearly 300 nurses in Houston are celebrating their own enormous victory. The registered nurses at Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center are the first in the Lone Star State to win collective bargaining rights. They gained their voice on the job March 27 and 28 by voting for the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) Texas, an affiliate of California Nurses Association/NNOC.

Says Josie Jupio, an RN at the hospital:

Finally our voice will be heard. This victory of the nurses' unity will bring a change for the better, impacting patient care, improving the benefits and assuring an open door policy that is fair to all.

 
 
 

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