Honor your peers with a nomination for an MNA award. Nominate the nurses in your life who go above and beyond in their work. The Annual MNA Awards, established by… Read more »
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Celebrate Nursing Excellence and Honor Your Peers – Deadline May 31!
BMC South RNs and Healthcare Professionals Submit Official Notice of Three-Day Strike from April 30 – May 3 as Talks for a New Contract Stall Over Staffing, Wages and Dramatic Cuts to Health Benefits
MC South caregivers contend the administration’s stance in the negotiations undermines the facility’s ability to recruit and retain staff to ensure safe patient care in their chronically underserved community BOSTON… Read more »
Greenfield City Council Unanimously Approves Resolution Supporting Baystate Franklin Nurses Fighting for a Fair Contract and Safe Patient Care
Resolution signals growing community support as nurses have voted to authorize a potential strike to ensure safe, local care GREENFIELD, Mass. – In a unanimous vote on April 15, the… Read more »
Baystate Franklin Nurses Vote 98.2% to Authorize a Potential Strike After Filing Unfair Labor Practice Charge to Protect Patient Care
Nurses’ vote sends a strong message to Baystate to end illegal staffing proposal and settle fair contract that protects patient safety and local care GREENFIELD, Mass. – Registered nurses at… Read more »
Baystate Franklin Nurses to Hold Strike Authorization Vote April 14 After Filing Unfair Labor Practice Charge Over Illegal Baystate Staffing Proposal
Nurses filed unfair labor practice charge as Baystate illegally ties nurse-patient safety limits to use of non-union float nurses GREENFIELD, Mass. – Registered nurses at Baystate Franklin Medical Center (BFMC),… Read more »
MNA Offices to Be Closed April 9 – 10th For Board of Directors/Staff Retreat
Process Launched to Reimagine MNA’s Role in Better Supporting Members to Meet Emerging Changes in Healthcare and the Broader Society We wanted to alert members that the MNA offices will… Read more »
Baystate Franklin Nurses to Hold Informational Picket April 7 as Community Supports Fight for Patient Safety and Keeping Care Local
Nurses are calling for safe RN staffing, regionally competitive wages, and other contractual protections to keep care local in Franklin County GREENFIELD, Mass. – Registered nurses at Baystate Franklin Medical… Read more »
Boston Globe: Workers fear ‘quiet closing’ at Canton hospital for disabled children
CANTON — Workers at a residential hospital for disabled children in Canton fear the state is quietly starving the historic facility of patients despite claiming to have abandoned a closure… Read more »
RNs at Five UMass Memorial Hospitals to Hold Informational Pickets Across Central Mass. on Thursday, March 26
Worcester, MA — Registered nurses with the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) working at five separate UMass Memorial hospital campuses (see list below) will hold coordinated informational pickets on Thursday, March 26…. Read more »
Pappas Rehab Staff to Hold March 25th Press Conference to Announce Overwhelming Vote of No Confidence In DPH Commissioner Robbie Goldstein for “Actions that Represent the Abandonment of the Facility’s Mission” to Care for the State’s Most Vulnerable Children with Disabilities
After Goldstein failed in his effort to close the facility last year, Pappas staff and families continue to raise concerns about the DPH’s ongoing effort to discharge Pappas patients while… Read more »
