Rose ann demoro biography of william

RoseAnn DeMoro has retired as executive director of National Nurses United, its affiliated National Nurses Organizing Committee and the California Nurses Association, and as a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council.

A simple statement like this seems entirely inadequate to commemorate DeMoro’s life’s work.

It would be more fitting to shout this news into a bullhorn, or to fill up the sky with streaming banners, the way she did over the 2004 Super Bowl party of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger with signs reading, “It’s No Party for Nurses!” The banners were part of her campaign to defend hard-won nurse-patient ratios in California from attacks by the popular Republican governor.

It took about a year, and 107 protests, but the nurses won, overturning his executive order. By that time the governor’s approval ratings were in the toilet, and his national political ambitions had been ruined.

DeMoro grew up in St.

Louis before moving to Calif