When Sarah* began working as a nurse at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, during the summer of 2015, she thought she had finally found her dream job in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. But as some of her fellow nurses started talking about unionizing, her dream became a nightmare.

Six months after she began working at Holy Cross, National Nurses United began organizing there. If the union proves it has support among 30 percent of Holy Cross nurses, they can file with the National Labor Relations Board to have an election. If they succeed, they will be the exclusive bargaining representative of the nurses under federal labor law.