Mercy Medical Center
The nurses are gathering and developing their proposals in preparation for negotiations that will begin this fall. Several arbitrations have been filed after numerous instances of disciplinary actions, including terminations.

Providence Behavioral Health
The new contracts are ready to be printed and will be distribution to members in the fall.

Wachusett Regional School Nurses
The Wachusett Regional School District nurses attended a July 23 school committee meeting where they used the meeting’s “open forum” to remind the committee members of the essential services they provide to the region’s children. The nurses attended the meeting despite the committee’s efforts to ban them from speaking during the meeting’s open forum—an attempt which failed due to the nurses’ diligence in protecting their union rights and civil liberties. The presentation to the school committee came after only three sit-down contract meetings with management and, specifically, after the region’s superintendent presented a proposal that include a $12,000 pay cut. The nurses are already paid, on average, 42 percent less then their fellow nurses from neighboring communities.