Contract Talks Stall Over Issues of Poor Staffing Levels, Overburdening of New Nurses and a Wage Offer that Leaves Brigham Nurses 10 percent Below Like-sized Hospitals In what promises to… Read more »
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More than 1,000 RNs to Picket Outside Brigham & Women’s Hosp.
Politically Driven NLRB Ruling on Supervisory Status of Nurses Fails to Provide Promised Clarity on Union Eligibility
UMass University RNs Vote in Favor of Strike Authorization
Nurses recommend Patrick/Murray
The Massachusetts Nurses Association PAC and its Board of Directors have recommended and endorsed Deval Patrick for Governor and Tim Murray for Lt. Governor. On November 7th Massachusetts voters will… Read more »
New Survey Says: Hospitals Put Patients Last
Only real-time survey of actual nurse staffing levels shows there has been no improvement in Massachusetts hospital RN staffing in the last two years Nearly 40 percent of units fail… Read more »
UMass University Campus RNs Will Take Strike Authorization Vote on Sept. 27th As Contract Talks Continue to Stall Over Pension, Health Insurance and Other Concessions to Dismantle the Nurses’ Contract
What: The registered nurses of the UMass Memorial Medical Center, University Campus will take a strike authorization vote on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006 as contract talks continue to stall over… Read more »
On the Record Positions of Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates on the Safe RN Staffing Bill
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Deval Patrick Publicly Denounces Nurse Staffing Bill
During Wednesday night’s gubernatorial debate, candidate Deval Patrick, without prompting by a specific question about the bill, took it upon himself to raise the issue of the Safe RN staffing… Read more »
Remembering PATCO: U.S. labor movement still feeling effects after 25 years
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterSeptemebr 2006 Edition