News & Events
The Voice of Nurses in Massachusetts
The MNA Division of Public Communications raises public awareness of and support for nursing issues by making nurses and nursing front-page news throughout the state and the nation. Below you will find the latest news regarding all facets of the organization. For a listing of upcoming MNA happenings, visit our Events Calendar.
Current News
- 10.25.2021 TEEN VOGUE: St. Vincent’s Nurses Are on Strike — This Is What It’s Like for Their Kids
- 10.25.2021 Volunteer RNs Needed: Help Answer COVID-19 Vaccine Questions for Mass Health Council
- 10.25.2021 MNA Nurses to Testify in Favor of Medicare-For-All to Improve Healthcare Access and Quality During October 26 Legislative Hearing
- 10.22.2021 Dallas-based Tenet Health Care Announces Third Quarter Profits of $448 Million and Revenues of $4 billion While Denying Patients and the Worcester Community Access to Needed Beds & Services at St. Vincent Hospital
- 10.21.2021 Warren, Markey, McGovern, Trahan Tell Tenet CEO: “Come to Worcester and End This Crisis”
- 10.20.2021 Caregivers of the Developmentally Disabled in Western Massachusetts Sound Alarm as Patient Care Inside of Group Homes Spirals Due to Severe Understaffing and Training Failures
- 10.18.2021 MNA will cover the tuition for one member to attend the 2022 Harvard Trade Union Program (January 18-February 18, 2022):
- 10.18.2021 MNA Region One November 18 Programs Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Trauma and Survival and The Nurse’s Role in Suicide Prevention: Shifting the Perspective from Despair to Hope location changes!
- 10.15.2021 St. Vincent Nurses Response to Tenet’s Announcement Today of Their Implementation of Last, Best, and Final Offer After Declaring Illegal Impasse
- 10.14.2021 St. Vincent Nurses Response to Tenet’s Declaration of Impasse: Just Another Attempt by Tenet to Distract, Demoralize and Delay An Equitable Settlement to Bring the Real Nurses Back to Their Positions and Reopen Desperately Needed Beds and Services
- 10.12.2021 St. Vincent Nurses Call on Tenet to Cease Its Failed Attacks on Nurses & Its Callous Endangerment of Central Mass Patients It’s Time to Bring the Nurses Back to Their Positions and Reopen Desperately Needed Beds and Services
- 10.11.2021 MNF 2021 Raffle Winners Announced!
- 10.08.2021 National Union of Healthcare Workers Calls on Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Other Officials to Compel Tenet Healthcare to End St. Vincent Nurse Strike
- 10.07.2021 St. Vincent Nurses Strike Regrettably Reaches Seven-Months on Oct. 8th As Tenet Healthcare Continues to Deny Agreement to Ensure Safer Patient Care for a Community Hard Hit by Delta Variant
- 10.07.2021 Berkshire VNA Nurses and Healthcare Professionals File for NLRB Election to Join the Massachusetts Nurses Association to Improve Working and Patient Care Conditions
- 10.06.2021 Berkshire VNA Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Urge Agency to Voluntarily Recognize Their Decision to Join the Massachusetts Nurses Association to Improve Working and Patient Care Conditions
- 10.05.2021 Four Nurses from Tenet-Owned Hospitals Send Letter to Tenet’s Corporate CEO and Mass Legislators Decrying Tenet’s Endangerment of Worcester Community and Mistreatment of St. Vincent Nurses, Call for Tenet to Negotiate End to Strike
- 10.04.2021 Inadequate Staffing of Nurses and Healthcare Professionals at Steward Good Samaritan Medical Center Will Be Focus of Oct. 6 Public Demonstration
- 10.04.2021 FW: MA AFL-CIO Letter Calling on Elected Officials to Urge Tenet Healthcare to Settle
- 10.01.2021 Nurses from Central Mass. Applaud St. Vincent Nurses for Helping Confront Delta Surge, Decry Tenet Healthcare’s Refusal to End Strike & Endanger Community by Closing Beds and Services
- 09.30.2021 Mayor Joseph M. Petty Statement on the ongoing nurses strike at St. Vincent Hospital, Calls for Intervention by Dallas-based Tenet CEO to Resolve Dispute
- 09.29.2021 State Representatives Mary Keefe and David LeBoeuf Issue Statement Supporting Striking St. Vincent Nurses, Call for Hospital CEO to Step Aside So Settlement Can be Reached for Nurses Return
- 09.28.2021 RNs at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Plymouth Ratify New, Three-Year Contract Agreement
- 09.28.2021 Join us for a belated celebration of former President Donna Kelly-Williams RN.
- 09.28.2021 Teamsters Local 170 and UFCW 1445 Send Letters to Legislators/Media Supporting St. Vincent Nurses, Holding Tenet Accountable for Crisis
- 09.24.2021 St. Vincent Nurses Statement in Response to Governor’s Tweet Regarding the Strike
- 09.23.2021 Worcester Solidarity Day to Support St. Vincent Nurses Planned for Saturday, Sept. 25th as Historic Strike Surpasses 200 Days
- 09.23.2021 Woman Arrested For Stabbing Morton Hospital Worker
- 09.13.2021 MNA Regional Council Raffle Tickets ON SALE NOW - Proceeds Benefit the Massachusetts Nurses Foundation Scholarship Fund!
- 09.09.2021 MNA Position Statement on Covid-19 Vaccine Requirement and Other Strategies to Combat The Covid Pandemic
- 09.07.2021 Sadly, St. Vincent Nurses Strike Reaches Six-Months on Sept. 8th
- 08.31.2021 St. Vincent Nurses File Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare with the National Labor Relations Board as Historic Strike Becomes the Longest Nurses Strike in Massachusetts History
- 08.31.2021 Please join members of the Western Mass Community in Solidarity with the Courageous MNA Nurses at St. Vincent Hospital
- 08.25.2021 Participate in "Union Speak" on Aug. 31, a New Program about the Labor Movement Open to All MNA Members
- 08.24.2021 Worcester Interfaith to Host Prayer Vigil to Support the St. Vincent’s Nurses on Aug. 25 as Nurses Strike Reaches 171 Days in Struggle for Safer Patient Care
- 08.23.2021 The Mass. Nurses PAC will hold elections at the PAC Annual Meeting to be held at MNA Convention on the morning of October 8
- 08.12.2021 Save the Date: 2021 MNA Convention October 6-8, 2021
- 08.12.2021 Prominent Nursing Care Researcher Linda Aiken in the New York Times: "Nurses Deserve Better. So Do Their Patients."
- 08.09.2021 Save the Date: 2021 MNA Convention
- 08.01.2021 An invitation: Join the MNF Board of Trustees
- 07.28.2021 National Catholic Labor Group Admonishes Trinity Health After NLRB Issues Complaint to Mercy Medical Center for Retaliating Against Nurses’ Union Activity
- 07.27.2021 Striking Boston VNA Healthcare Professionals to Get Picket Line Support from St. Vincent Nurses and Boston Mayoral Candidate Annissa Essaibi George
- 07.23.2021 Seven-Day Strike Begins for Boston VNA Healthcare Professionals at 9 a.m. Monday, July 26
- 07.21.2021 The Catholic Labor Network Letter to Trinity Health about Treatment of Mercy Nurses
- 07.14.2021 Boston VNA Healthcare Professionals to Announce 7-Day Strike with Visit on July 15 to Board Chair at Luxury Tower in Fight for Improved Patient Care and Working Conditions
- 07.02.2021 St. Vincent Nurses on Strike for Safer Patient Care to Fly from Worcester, MA to Dallas, TX and Deliver 16-Foot Petition Signed by 700+ Nurses to the Corporate HQ of Hospital Owner Tenet Healthcare
- 06.28.2021 Mercy Medical Center Nurses and Supporters to Deliver Community Petition to Trustees Urging Trinity Health to Respect Nurses and Patients by Agreeing to a Fair Contract
- 06.28.2021 As Tenet Healthcare Spends Tens of Millions to Prolong a Nurses’ Strike for Safer Patient Care, State Lawmakers to Examine Legislation Aimed at Increasing Hospital Profit Transparency and Protecting Essential Healthcare Services During June 29 Live-Streamed Hearing
- 06.27.2021 Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Finally Makes Proposal as Nurses Strike Reaches 111 Days, The First Proposal Since Walking Away from the Table on May 5
