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Listen to Radio Interview on the Safe Staffing Bill with MNA Presidents Donna Kelly-Williams and Board Member Barbara Tiller
MNA wages campaign to protect psych beds in Central Mass.; HealthAlliance plan to close inpatient unit in Fitchburg will hurt access to care
MNA members, along with mental healthadvocates, concerned patients, family members,community leaders and elected officials,packed a recent state Department of PublicHealth hearing at HealthAlliance HospitalBurbank campus in Fitchburg to voice strongopposition… Read more »
Gallup Poll Once Again Ranks Nurses as Most Honest and Ethical
A Gallup poll has once again ranked nurses at the top of their survey on the public’s view of what professionals are the most honest and ethical. This poll result… Read more »
Unfair labor practices and the National Labor Relations Act
MNA Board of Directors Meeting highlights Dec. 16, 2010
Julie Pinkham updated the BOD on current issues facing the bargaining units: Anna Jaques, Marlborough Hospital and Merrimack Valley reached tentative agreements; Unit 7 ratified their tentative agreement; staffing continues… Read more »
Ketline Edouard, RN (MNA member who works at BMC) wrote about a trip to Haiti that she and several BMC and one CHA nurse (MNA members) organized.
President’s Column
Nursing on Beacon Hill: Legislative Update
What is YOUR New Year’s resolution? As the MNA looks to 2011, we anticipate a very busy year. Many contracts are up for renegotiation and we expect many of them… Read more »
MNA decries leadership at UMass Memorial Health Care for boasting of record profits after cutting care and services
The MNA recently issued a statement condemning management at UMass Memorial Health Care for its misguided decisions that are negatively affecting the quality of patient care within the health care… Read more »
Video: MNA Executive Director Discusses the MNA Multi-Employer Pension Plan Proposal
Video: MNA Executive Director Discusses the MNA Multi-Employer Pension Plan Proposal The video below was produced originally for the Caritas nurses to explain the MNA’s multiemployer pension proposal before it… Read more »