Advocate For Yourself. Advocate For Safe Patient Care.
Resources
1. National Labor Relations Board
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) establishes federally protected rights for workers to speak with coworkers about your salary and work conditions, including on social media. It is illegal for your employer to attempt to suppress these rights. Know your rights!
Report a labor violation to the CT Department of Labor
2. Reporting
Safety concerns should be reported through your hospital’s internal safety occurrence system. If safety concerns, including ones related to poor staffing, are not swiftly addressed by your employer, they should also be reported to hospital regulating agencies like the CT Department of Public Health and the Joint Commission.
Report a Labor Violation to the CT Department of Labor
3. Unions
We enthusiastically support the right of workers to form a union and negotiate their terms of employment with their employer.
Unionizing is the process of you and your colleagues joining together to negotiate your terms of employment with your employer. In order to unionize, you must demonstrate to your regional NLRB office that at least 30% of employees in the same role as you are interested in unionizing. You prove this by having staff sign union cards and submitting these union cards to the NLRB. Once you have 30% support for unionizing, the NLRB will facilitate a union election at your hospital. All nurses vote, and if you win the election, you form an official union!
We believe in a state-wide CT nurses union similar to the California Nurses Association and Massachusetts Nurses Association. This allows nurses across the state to join together in supporting state health legislation that protects patients and healthcare workers. If you would like to join our effort to build CT nurses union, please contact us at ctnursesunited@gmail.com.