California Nurses Assn. will join AFL-CIO
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The California Nurses Assn. was granted a charter this week to join the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor organization.
The move, approved Thursday by the AFL-CIO during a meeting in Las Vegas, unites the country’s largest labor federation, which has 10 million members and 54 unions, with a union of 75,000 registered nurses known for political protests and for aggressive organizing.
Both sides had sought the alliance.
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