A new, very important bylaw has been proposed by certain members of the MNA which you, as a dues-paying member of the MNA, will have to carefully review and vote upon at the Business Meeting held at the MNA's annual convention on Thursday, November 9, 2000 at the World Trade Center in Downtown Boston. The proposed bylaw calls for the MNA to disaffiliate from the ANA federation.

Given the important nature of this issue, the MNA has created a Task Force and charged them with developing a communication plan for delivering information to the membership and providing opportunities for the membership to ask questions and respond to this issue.

As part of that communication plan, the Task Force has created this section of the web site (below) to provide general information. They will be conducting "Town Meetings" across the state that members can attend to ask questions, meet with other members supporting each side of the issue, and gather more detailed information. And, finally, the MNA has developed a communication system through which members can write, call or email the Task Force with questions they would like addressed or to offer their opinion on this issue. The email communiqués will be posted on this web site for all web site visitors to review. Questions and comments can also be phoned-in to the Affiliation/Disaffiliation Task Force Bylaws Hot Line at 781.821.4625 or toll-free in MA at 800.882.2056 or mailed in to the MNA's communications dept at 340 Turnpike Street, Canton, MA 02021.

The Issue

• ANA Affiliation / Disaffiliation: MNA Debates its Future
• A Letter from the MNA President
• MNA Board Votes to Support Disaffiliation

• MNA / ANA: Structure, Purpose, Interrelationship
• Glimpses of MNA History 1903-2000
• MNA Dues Structure: Where Your Money Goes
• Pie-chart / Graph Description of Dues Structure
• Org-Chart of MNA Organizational Structure

Note: This application form is available as an Adobe
Acrobat downloadable file. In order to view it, you must first have the
Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed on your computer. This
software is available for free from Adobe. To download the Reader
software, click here. After you have downloaded the Reader and
installed it, you may then download the Dues Structure document
or org-chart to view and print from your PC.

To Be Voted On...by you, the MNA Membership

• Summary of Intent of Proposed Bylaw Calling for
• 
  MNA Disaffiliation from ANA
  
• Make Your Vote Count at the MNA Business Meeting (convention)
• Attending the Business Meeting: Important Info You Need to Know
• Map/Directions to Convention/Business Meeting at World Trade Center, Boston

Opinions...

• Opinion: Pro-Independent MNA
• Opinion: Stay with ANA
• Town Meetings to Discuss this Issue
• Member Opinions / Letters to the Editor
• Member Questions & Answers on this Issue
• Contacts for Proponents of Both Sides of this Issue

The MNA encourages all MNA members to ask questions and submit their opinion on this issue to the Affiliation/Disaffiliation Task Force. Questions and Opinions will be reprinted in either the MassNurse newsletter or on the web site. "Letters to the Editor" for the newsletter should be 250 words or less; longer comments will be posted on this web site. In order for the MNA to address the needs of its membership first, members are asked to please include either their name or membership number in the body of their message, then forward your comments/ questions using the mechanisim provided below. Confidentiality will be maintained. Names, membership numbers and personal information will not be used/displayed in any reprinted information, unless requested by the member.

Mail: MNA, Communications Dept, 340 Turnpike St., Canton, Ma 02021

Phone: MNA Affiliation/Disaffiliation Bylaw Hot-Line 800.882.2056