[Antiracism] [Workers' Rights] Nurses Picket 8/6 & 8/11

[WMass Jobs With Justice]

Support MNA Nurses on the Picket Line in August

 

Franklin Medical Center -- Aug. 6th; Cooley Dickinson Hospital -- Aug. 11 

 

 

Franklin Medical Center Picket
Wednesday, August 6 from 2 - 5 p.m.
164 High St., Greenfield, MA
Directions: <http://www.baystatehealth.com/forms/fmc/pdfs/directions.pdf>
http://www.baystatehealth.com/forms/fmc/pdfs/directions.pdf
 
The Baystate Franklin Medical Center nurses have been in negotiations for
more than 10 months with a vehemently anti-union employer.  Key issues
preventing a settlement include the nurses' call for a retroactive
competitive salary increase and the hospital's demand that they have the
unilateral right to cancel a nurse's shift and to discipline nurses for the
legitimate use of sick time.

 

 

Cooley Dickinson Hospital Picket

Monday, August 11 commences at 4 p.m.

30 Locust St. (Rt. 9), Northampton, MA

Directions:
http://www.cooley-dickinson.org/patandvisit/driving_directions.php

 

The Cooley Dickinson Hospital nurses have been negotiating for more than six
months, with talks stalling over a number of key issues, including:  the
nurses' call for a competitive salary increase to allow them to recruit and
retain nurses to provide safe care; Management is resolute in the removal of
language from the nurses contract that protects the union status of shift
charge nurses and the removal of Veterans Day as a holiday.  

 

INFO: Diane Scherrer, RN, Western MA Community Organizer, Massachusetts
Nurses Association, 781-363-3817, dscherrer at mnarn.org

 

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