Big Victory for RNs at HomeHealth Visiting Nurses - New Contract to Incorporate Significant New Protections for Patients Safety Standards, Nurse Rights
Press Release 11/19/07
Settlement for Houlton RNs Provides Significant Patient Protections, RN Retention Gains
Press Release 11/06/07
Settlement for Houlton RNs Provides Significant Patient Protections, RN Retention Gains
Press Release 11/02/07
Nurses at HomeHealth Press for Patient Care Protections - Federal Mediator to Lead Negotiations as Company Refuses to Meet Maine Standards on Staffing or Patient Safety
Press Release 11/02/07
Nurses contract OK'd by trustees
Bangor Daily News 10/16/07
EMMC nurses OK new 3-year contract
Bangor Daily News 10/15/07
Strike Averted- Tentative Pact at EMMC - Nurses Gain Stronger Voice for Patient Care
Press Release 10/12/07
Nurses give Bangor hospital 10-day strike notice
Boston Globe 10/08/07
Negotiations continue as EMMC nurses union sets strike date
Bangor Daily News 10/02/07
Nurses to strike at EMMC
Bangor Daily News 10/01/07
EMMC Nurses Hold Strike Vote
Press Release 09/27/07
EMMC, nurses still negotiating
Bangor Daily News 09/22/07
EMMC Nurses Hold Candlelight Vigil for Patient Safety—Hospital Dismisses Nurses' Patient Care Concerns
Press Release 09/21/07
EMMC nurses rally over staffing ratios
Bangor Daily News 09/05/07
AFL-CIO Condemns MaineHealth Attack on Employee Rights - MSNA/NNOC Says, MaineHealth Seeking to Silence Caregivers Concerns on Patient Safety
Press Release 08/27/07
MSNA Affiliates with CNA/NNOC RNs
The Maine State Nurses Association has voted to affiliate with the nation’s premier organization of direct-care registered nurses, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. MSNA members made the decision in their convention in Bar Harbor on September 29. With MSNA, CNA/NNOC now comprises over 70,000 RNs in 44 states, and is internationally known for winning the first minimum nurse-to-patient nurse ratios in the U.S., achieving unprecedented workplace improvements for nurses and patients, and growing influence in the campaign to transform healthcare.
“This marks an exciting new chapter in the history of Maine State Nurses Association,” said MSNA President Maureen Caristi, RN. “By joining forces with CNA/NNOC, we are extending our unity from coast to coast and thereby increasing our power to defend and advance the nursing profession and safe, quality healthcare for all.”
“We are thrilled to welcome the Maine nurses into the CNA/NNOC family,” said CNA/NNOC President Deborah Burger, RN who was in Bar Harbor for the vote. “This vote, which symbolizes the growing strength of our national movement of direct-care RNs, sends an emphatic message of unity and strength on behalf of nurses and patients.”
“I see a day where all direct care RNs are united in one organization with a vision of patient advocacy as the primary agenda,” said Rose Ann DeMoro, CNA/NNOC Executive Director.
MSNA leaders say the affiliation will strengthen the clout of Maine nurses as part of a broad, activist national RN movement that is critical at a time of growing attacks on the rights of RNs, and a steadily worsening national healthcare crisis.
As part of CNA/NNOC, MSNA will also be working to enact national healthcare reform to assure access, based on a single standard of care for all, to the 46 million uninsured Americans.
