After successful picketing, Marlborough Hospital nurses win new contract
Pact includes pay hike pushing top step to $50 per hour

	Standing together: A group of RNs from Marlborough Hospital stopped quickly for a photo during their successful informational picket in the fall.

The MNA nurses at Marlborough Hospital ratified a new two-year contract that will provide a competitive pay increase to allow the nurses to recruit and retain staff to maintain quality patient care. The agreement was reached shortly after the nurses held a successful picketing outside the entrance to the facility.

The picketing was accompanied by publicity and paid advertisements in the local media which drew the public’s attention to the impact below-market wages were having on the nurses’ ability to recruit and retain staff at the facility. At the first negotiating session following the picketing, a settlement was reached with a federal mediator.

Under the agreement nurses will receive across the board pay increases, as well as adjustments to the top of the pay scale that will result in an increase in the starting salary from $27.37 to $29.04; and from $46.19 to $50 at the top of the pay scale as of April of 2009.

###