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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 Northampton</span></strong><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cooley
Dickinson Hospital – Monday August 11 </span></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>30
Locust St. (Rt. 9), Northampton, MA</span></strong><span style='font-family:
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<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' need
for a competitive salary increase to allow them to recruit and retain
nurses to provide safe care; management’s goal to remove language from
the contract that protects the union status of shift charge nurses; and management’s
desire to remove Veterans Day as a holiday. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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, <a href="mailto:dscherrer@mnarn.org">dscherrer@mnarn.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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