From the Massachusetts Nurse Newsletter
April/May 2012 Edition
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
The MNA nurses at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates recently ratified a new two-year agreement. Highlights include:
- 1 percent across-the-board increases in both years of the contract
- A 1.5 percent increase for NPs/CNS and midwives in year one
- A lump-sum bonus of 2 percent annual base pay
- Additional bonus payments for members at top of scale
- Continuation of the existing paid time-off program
Cooley Dickinson
The MNA members at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton recently ratified a new three-year agreement. Highlights include:
- Step increases in all three years of the contract
- A 1 percent ratification bonus
- A 1 percent increase to step 30 in years one and two
- An across-the-board increase of 1 percent in the last two years of the contract
- Language that creates a joint committee to review the hospital’s staffing grids, as well as language guaranteeing that the hospital provide a quarterly report that outlines key staffing data
- An agreement on successor language, which will protect the unionized nurses and their contract should the hospital come under new ownership
- Improvements in health and safety language, as well as improvements in workplace violence language
Mercy Medical
The registered nurses of Mercy Medical Center in Springfield recently ratified a three-year contract.
The nurses gained an across-the-board wage increase in each year and were also able to get improvements in language covering safe patient handling, on-call, how prime time vacations are handled and an expansion of labor management meetings.
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