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Second Selection of News Coverage regarding the new national union announcement (DS)
Three groups form 150,000-member nurses union (DS)
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New eHealth subsidiary will fund expansion (MS)
MNA President Beth Piknick Signs onto Mass. Labor Leaders Letter to Obama Urging Passage of HR 676
Forty Massachusetts labor leaders have written President Obama to inform him of the failure of the much touted ‘Massachusetts Plan’ and to tell him that the passage of HR 676… Read more »
Historic Pact Creates Largest RN Union Ever in U.S.
Powerful New Association of 150,000 RNs Joins to Organize All RNs, Promote Health Care Justice United American Nurses, California Nurses Assn/NNOC, and Massachusetts Nurses Assn Reach Landmark Accord
Cautious optimism for labor from the new administration
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterFebruary 2009 Edition
Bargaining Unit Updates
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterFebruary 2009 Edition Baystate Franklin Medical Center The MNA bargaining at Baystate Franklin Medical Center recently held its annual dinner at Chandler’s Restaurant. Mark Garmalo and… Read more »
How Franklin Medical Center became unionized: a conversation with Julie Lowensburg
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterFebruary 2009 Edition By Alice ManicaBFMC committee member On a sunny day this past autumn I had the pleasure of sitting and enjoying a nostalgic walk… Read more »
New law will make it possible for more of our colleagues to join us!
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterFebruary 2009 Edition Congress is expected to debate the Employee Free Choice Act this legislative session. This important legisation provides: The ability to sit at the… Read more »