RoseAnn DeMoro
Biography
Executive Director, National Nurses United
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
Leading the largest professional and labor organization of registered nurses in the United States — and the fastest-growing overall — RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, as well as the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, has emerged as one of the nation's preeminent advocates for genuine healthcare reform and working people.
Under her stewardship as executive director, National Nurses United:
- Formed in 2009 as the first national union of, by, and for the nation’s registered nurses and the fastest-growing U.S. union, now with 190,000 members.
- Inspired the founding of the first international organization of unions of direct-care RNs and other healthcare workers from six continents, Global Nurses United.
- Brought RNs across the nation together to lead the campaign to extend and improve Medicare to cover all patients and create a system of guaranteed healthcare.
- Won enactment of the nation's first safe RN–to-patient ratios law in California, which has now been proposed in states across the nation.
- Won many of the best collective bargaining agreements for RNs in the United States, in compensation, retirement security, and improved patient care conditions.
Featured in prominent profiles in the The New York Times,[1] Wall Street Journal,[2] Los Angeles Times,[3] San Francisco Chronicle,[4] Business Week, and the Chicago Tribune,[5] DeMoro has also appeared on a number of national and California news programs, including Bill Moyers Journal,[6] CBS' 60 Minutes,[7] PBS' Now,[8] and the Lehrer News Hour.[9]
DeMoro has been named "America's Best & Brightest"[10] by Esquire magazine, dubbed "The Most Influential Woman You've Never Heard Of" by More magazine,[11] honored as among "America's Most Influential Women" by MSN,[12] and one of only eight people to be cited among the "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" for the past 14 consecutive years by Modern Healthcare magazine.[13] DeMoro also serves as National Vice President and Executive Boardmember of the AFL-CIO.[14]
References
- ↑ "Redefining the Union Boss". The New York Times. 20 November 2011.
- ↑ Jim Carlton (11 November 2010). "California Nurses' Union Flexes Political Muscle — WSJ". WSJ.
- ↑ "Nurses Union Leader Is a Tonic for Governor's Foes". latimes.
- ↑ Kathleen Sharp (6 May 2007). "The Rabble-rouser / Will California nurses' union head Rose Ann DeMoro's guerrilla theater tactics continue to win friends and help nationalize health care, or will her 'queen-size' ambitions get in the way?". SFGate.
- ↑ "Militancy is mark of California leader". tribunedigital-chicagotribune.
- ↑ "Rose Ann DeMoro on the Fight for Health Care Reform — BillMoyers.com". BillMoyers.com.
- ↑ ""60 Minutes" The New Boss/The Harlem Children's Zone/Not Ready to Make Nice (TV Episode 2006)". IMDb. 14 May 2006.
- ↑ "Rose Ann DeMoro Talks with PBS NOW on Health & Politics — VideoNeed". videoneed.com.
- ↑ "Balancing Act". PBS NewsHour.
- ↑ California Nurses Association (17 November 2006). "Esquire Names CNA/NNOC Leader Rose Ann DeMoro Among ’Best and Brightest in America’". prnewswire.com.
- ↑ "Rose Ann DeMoro: Labor Leader & Political Player". MORE Magazine.
- ↑ California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (11 January 2007). "CNA/NNOC Leader Rose Ann DeMoro Named to 'Ten Influential Women of 2006'". prnewswire.com.
- ↑ "Modern Healthcare". modernhealthcare.com.
- ↑ "Executive Council Members". AFL-CIO.