Labor Representative - Florida

California Nurses Association / National Nurses Organizing Committee / National Nurses United•Florida, FL

5d•$82,762 - $155,902•Hybrid

About The Position

The California Nurses Association (CNA)/National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC)/National Nurses United (NNU) is a union of registered nurses dedicated to transforming the healthcare industry to prioritize patient care. They are seeking organizers passionate about justice and collective action to build worker power. The organization fights for better workplaces, stronger communities, and a society that puts people before profit. They welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds including labor, community organizing, nonprofits, advocacy organizations, student movements, political campaigns, and other mission-driven backgrounds. The organization believes in class-struggle, transformative change, and political engagement through collective action and democratic participation. Successful candidates are deeply committed to justice and solidarity, strong relationship builders, resilient, adaptable, motivated by collective action, comfortable engaging and mobilizing others, and prepared to work irregular hours, adapt to rapid shifts in priorities, travel, respond to campaigns, support workers during nights and weekends, and make personal sacrifices to advance collective goals. This position is focused on building worker power and developing nurse leaders, strengthening workplace committees, mobilizing members around workplace and healthcare issues, advancing healthcare as a human right, and supporting efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes. The role involves experience in collective bargaining, planning collective actions to resolve grievances, organizing campaigns, and using workplace issues and data strategically to engage members, build collective strength, and win improvements for nurses and patients.

Requirements

Organizing experience
Campaign Planning
Experience in organizing membership participation
Ability to develop rank and file leadership
Ability to track and analyze data and generate reports
Willingness to work long, irregular hours (including nights and weekends), as needed
Commitment to social change and to carrying out the vision and program of the organization
Ability to work with minimal supervision
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work in a team setting
Commitment to organizational discipline
Ability to work with a diverse, multi-cultural membership
Valid driver’s license and insured car
All CNA/NNOC/NNU employees are required to complete a background check in order to be eligible for employment.

Nice To Haves

Experience assisting with contract negotiations and processing grievances
Organized shop floor flights
Recruited, identified and trained member leaders to recruit other leaders
Utilized proficiently an electronic database to track information and generate reports
Served as First Chair or lead negotiator

Responsibilities

Build and grow the nurse network
Identify and develop leaders
Develop campaign plans
Maintain relationships with nurse leaders
Organize shop floor fights and other collective actions, including strikes
Train nurses on how to handle low level grievances and represent their coworkers
All matters related to collective bargaining, including organizing nurses in private and public employment
Participate in external organizing drives
Compiling, analyzing, interpreting and presenting pertinent data
Assisting with contract negotiations
Processing grievances
Member political education
Representing nurses in employment-related problems
Traveling to worksites to meet with members
Assist in other work in the field as assigned
Maintains a flexible schedule, including regular evening and weekend work, based on organizing and campaign needs.