By Doug Cunningham

The 75,000 member California Nurses Association has joined the AFL-CIO. CNA President Rose Ann Demoro had praise for the AFL-CIO’s new health care policy and says she’s thrilled that the CNA is joining the AFL-CIO. The California nurses association has a national arm called the National Nurses Organizing Committee. It has members in all 50 states. CNA had been considering membership in the AFL-CIO for some time and made the move after the AFL-CIO Executive Council issued a statement supporting universal health care. The CNA supports the House bill introduced by John Conyers that will create a single payer universal national health care system. Demoro says as the CNA joins the AFL-CIO there are opportunities to build a militant, united labor movement essential to the nation’s future.