Registered nurses at Rush University Medical Center voted this week to join the National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United, after a multi-year campaign organizers called historic for the Chicago academic medical-center sector.
NNOC announced the result May 18. Organizers framed the vote as a response to nurses’ lack of formal voice in staffing and working-condition decisions at the 700-bed hospital, which is one of the largest in Illinois. Rush had publicly opposed the union drive in earlier rounds.
The medical center said in a statement it would work with NNOC to begin contract negotiations.
Chicago’s hospital sector has been a long-running organizing target for both NNOC and the Illinois Nurses Association. The Rush vote brings several thousand additional RNs into NNU’s national footprint, which now spans more than 225,000 members across the United States.
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