The DDRU is America's largest Nursing Union that Specialize in protecting  CNA's,  Home health Aids, and Care givers, continuously  fighting for higher wages, and hold the facilities you work for accountable for under pay, and back pay that is due to you. DDRU represent  Caretakers and nursing students in every sector of health care – from home care and LTC to community and acute care. DDRU advocates on key priorities to strengthen our work community across America. We represent our members with pride and promote Caregivers, CNA's, and Home Care Assistants on the national level of nursing, and we work tirelessly to protect the quality of their rights with in the universal health care system.

These nurses need effective advocacy  and we are their spokespersons in health care. DDRU provides evidence to change nurse policy-making and wages.

We use our powerful collective voice to speak up and pressure the federal government to recognize the professional skills and knowledge that our Caretakers and Nurses bring to their jobs. We convey the importance of safe and healthy workplaces for our members and the patients they care for through our advocacy for strong occupational health and safety legislation and the enforcement of a zero tolerance policy for physical violence as well as verbal abuse. We work to make sure Caregivers and Nurses priorities are reflected in budgetary policy when national politicians talk “health.”  DDRU also push them to recognize the caring, human touch our nurses bring,  which is so important to patients’ healing. 

DDRU Mission: We are the recognized national voice advocating for Caregivers, CNA's, and Home Care Assistants ect.

DDRU Vision: To strengthen  Caregivers, CNA's, and Home Care Assistants national voice so they can get the wages and respect that they deserved.

What do nurses’ unions do?

 Many American  RN, LPN, LDRP and APRN nurses that work in hospitals are members of a union. Nurses’ union members take home some of the strongest pay and benefits packages in our country. Thus, Union representatives work hard to assist members with issues in their workplaces as well as representing them abroad fighting for better wages and higher professional recognition.

 Members can attend meetings and are encouraged to participate in union activities. Nurses’ unions also provide extensive educational programs that equip members with knowledge and skills to enable them to recognize and resolve workplace issues, such as breach of collective agreement rights, unlawful wages for certain patients their assigned too, professional practice issues, and occupational health and safety updates.

How do unions benefit me?

The DDRU has been a proud supporter of nurse management and union rights. We are in solidarity with nurse coordinators, nursing facilities, other labor unions to improve wages,  social and economic well-being of workers. DDRU works hard to get our members the highest paying union jobs within our Data network.

DDRU Union believe in social and economic justice by lobbying governments. Here are a few things unions have achieved over the years:

• Minimum wage laws
• Vacation and overtime pay
• Employment insurance and retirement security
• Human rights legislation
• Parental leave
• Health and safety rules
• Equity and diversity
• Respect and fairness

Unions work to improve wages, benefits and provide a voice for you in the workplace and abroad. In fact, unionized workers across America earn approximately $5.28/hour more than non-union workers and are more likely to receive health care and pension benefits than non-unionized workers.

Unions are leaders in the areas of: publicly funded, publicly delivered health care; employment insurance and pension benefits, child care,  pharmacy discounts, protecting the environment, affordable housing,  and other economic development.