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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Support
MNA Nurses on the Picket Line in August</span></strong><span style='font-size:
18.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Franklin
Medical Center -- Aug. 6th; Cooley Dickinson Hospital -- Aug. 11 </span></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Franklin
Medical Center Picket</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><br>
</span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Wednesday,
August 6 from 2 - 5 p.m.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>
</span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>164 High
St., Greenfield, MA</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><br>
</span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Directions:</span></b><b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><a
href="http://www.baystatehealth.com/forms/fmc/pdfs/directions.pdf"
title="http://www.baystatehealth.com/forms/fmc/pdfs/directions.pdf">
http://www.baystatehealth.com/forms/fmc/pdfs/directions.pdf</a></span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>
</span><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>
</span><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";color:black'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cooley
Dickinson Hospital Picket</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Monday,
August 11 commences at 4 p.m.</span></strong><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>30
Locust St. (Rt. 9), Northampton, MA</span></strong><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Directions:
<a href="http://www.cooley-dickinson.org/patandvisit/driving_directions.php"
title="http://www.cooley-dickinson.org/patandvisit/driving_directions.php">http://www.cooley-dickinson.org/patandvisit/driving_directions.php</a></span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>INFO: </span><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Diane
Scherrer, RN, Western MA Community Organizer, Massachusetts Nurses Association,
781-363-3817, dscherrer@mnarn.org</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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