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What is the Nurse Alliance of SEIU?

The Nurse Alliance of SEIU: Of, By, and For Nurses

The Nurse Alliance of SEIU is made up of more than 84,000 registered nurses in 23 states working together to raise standards for our profession and our patients' care. Because the Nurse Alliance of SEIU is part of SEIU – the nation’s largest health care union – nurses are working with more than 900,000 health care workers to truly change the face of health care across our country.

The Nurse Alliance of SEIU contracts are unique, because nurses identify the problems they face in providing quality care and tailor them to meet the needs of nurses and our patients. Through the national organization, nurses have a network for sharing information through committees to address our specific issues we face at work, like the Workplace Quality Committee and the Health and Safety Committee. Of, by and for nurses, means that nurses are in charge, nurses make the decisions, and nurses are working together across the country to reach out and engage other nurses in their workplaces to improve quality patient care.

SEIU nurses at each health care facility are part of their own local unions and make their own decisions. But we also benefit from automatically becoming part of the national Nurse Alliance of SEIU, which helps nurses speak with a strong, united voice in today's rapidly changing health care industry.

In California, the Nurse Alliance is: 
  • more then 35,000 registered nurses and 5,000 licensed vocational nurses at dozens of hospitals and health care facilities statewide;
  • about members from public health nurses, nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives;
  • made up of only registered nurses from health care occupations, including staff physicians, radiologic technologists, licensed vocational nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, certified nurse assistants, and every other type of health care profession;
  • apart of the 1.9 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest health care union in California and the nation.

As members of the SEIU Nurse Alliance, we face our challenges together, rather than each of us going it alone and we are making a real difference -- not only in the lives of our patients, but in the standards of our profession.  We are affiliated with the Nurse Alliance of SEIU, which represents over one hundred thousand nurses from across the United States.