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Hundreds Join Picket Outside Quincy Medical Center Nurses To Protest the Hospital’s Refusal to Negotiate a New Union Contract
James Shaw Social Networking: How to Lose Your Job Without Really Trying (includes Facebook)
Morton Hospital Nurses & Health Professionals Schedule Strike Authorization Vote For April 28 as Contract Talks Continue to Stall Over Plan to Dismantle Pension Benefit
TAUNTON, MA – After six months of negotiations, including another session held on Monday with a federal mediator, the registered nurses and health professionals of Morton Hospital have scheduled a… Read more »
Non-Profit Acute Care Hospital Conversion
First enacted in 2000,
TV Interview with NNU President Karen Higgins
Quincy Medical Center Nurses Conduct Informational Picket on April 13 To Protest the Hospital’s Refusal to Negotiate a New Union Contract After Management Prematurely Called Off Talks and Implemented Its Last Offer
Nurses outraged by unilateral imposition of 3% wage cut, 5% increase in health insurance costs & pension freeze, as well as the hospital’s refusal to address the nurse’s call for… Read more »
Quake-hit Haitians leave tent cities for camp
Three Months Later, Haiti’s New Normal
Three Months Later, Haiti’s New NormalPublished: April 11, 2010 Three writers look at life in Haiti as the slow recovery from January’s earthquake continues. The Graffiti Prophet of Bois Verna… Read more »
Amnesty: U.S. Guilty Of Katrina-Related Abuses
Insurers call halt, get state warning
New policies stopped in disputed category; Regulators demand resumption by Friday By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | April 7, 2010 The standoff between Massachusetts regulators and health insurance companies intensified… Read more »