National Nurses United (NNU) is the largest nurses organization in the U.S. They have been front runners in promoting safe hospital practices for consumers, especially through efforts to end unsafe nursing staffing levels — an all too common hospital practice in American hospitals. This month, NNU was certified as the union for registered nurses at Affinity Hospital in Massillon, Ohio. The courageous Affinity nurses became certified as a union after a brief organizing campaign and a democratic election among all of th