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MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN UMASS/MEMORIAL
HEALTH CARE AND THE MASSACHUSETTS NURSES ASSOCIATION
It is hereby agreed by and between UMass/Memorial
Health Care (UMMHC) and the Massachusetts Nurses Associations
(MNA) that the following terms will govern the parties conduct
during the organizing, election, and recognition of the MNA at
the Memorial Campus, Hahnemann Campus, and Home Health of UMMHC.
- Neither UMMHC nor the MNA will engage in activities
or communications regarding representation by the MNA that
threatens, intimidates, coerces or promises special benefit
in exchange
for supporting either UMMHC or the MNA position in organizing
or a representation election.
- All statements made by UMMHC or the MNA representatives
during organizing or during the election process will be
truthful and accurate. Any statement that is demonstrably inaccurate
will be corrected publicly by the party that made the inaccurate
statement.
- At any meeting called by UMMHC to discuss
the issue of union representation, attendance by registered
nurses
will be voluntary.
- UMMHC will not initiate any one-on-one conversations
with registered nurses regarding union representation.
- Registered nurses are free to discuss the
issue of MNA representation among themselves in any area, subject
to
the same rules as any other private conversation among nurses.
- UMMHC agrees that it will not hire any consultant,
law firm, company, or other persons and/or organization to
conduct a campaign against the MNA over the recognition of
it as the
sole and exclusive bargaining agent for registered nurses
of UMMHC employed at the Memorial Campus, Hahnemann Campus,
and
Home Health.
- UMMHC will provide the MNA with an office
at the Memorial Campus for MNA use during organizing and a
representation
election.
- The MNA may reserve facility conference rooms,
subject to established procedures and normal use limitations,
for the purpose of meeting with registered nurses organizing
with the MNA.
- Any dispute arising from the terms of this
Agreement that cannot be resolved by the parties may be submitted
to the
American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its rules for
expedited arbitration.
- UMMHC will instruct all management staff
in writing of the requirements of this Agreement within five
(5)
days of this Agreement.
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