By Doug Cunningham

Nurses from eight unions are uniting in "RN's Working Together", the first AFL-CIO Industry Coordinating Committee. Debbie Hayes is a nurse with the CWA.

[Debbie Hayes] : "We currently have plans for coordinated mobilization, lobbying and outreach to help protect an RN's right to organize, improve patient care by addressing staffing issues on a national level and to help fix a broken health care system."

In the future "RN's Working Together" will plan coordinated bargaining and organizing efforts.