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  • Letter to the Editor: "A Flawed Referendum for Massachusetts Nurses"

    Dear Herman,

    Thank you for sending me the article "A Flawed Referendum for Massachusetts Nurses." I truly enjoyed reading the article and appreciate the time and effort you and your colleagues took to highlight the issues we are facing within our union.

    It's unfortunate that it took this issue for me to realize that organizations such as yours exist, but I'm fortunate that I had the opportunity to talk with you and your colleagues about our issues as well as learning about the Association for Union Democracy.

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  • New national union aims to unite nurses

    Delegates from three major unions of registered nurses, meeting in Phoenix on December 7, merged their forces into a new national organization, the National Nurses United. The three founding affiliates --- the California Nurses Association, the Massachusetts Nurses Association, and the United American Nurses --- report a combined membership of 150,000. To thunderous applause from some 150 delegates, one of the three elected co-presidents proclaimed that this creation of the "largest union of direct care nurses is about a century overdue."

  • Nurses in Miami act for safety and patient care: A letter from Florida

    A group of nurses represented by the SEIU in Miami, concerned over the union's inaction around serious issues affecting its members, are taking the initiative on their own to fight for their patients' care and safety. For too long, these nurses have seen too many compromises made by a local union so interested in a partnership with hospital administrators that it ignores the needs of the nurses on the floor.

  • A flawed referendum for Massachusetts nurses

    Registered nurses voted on whether or not to merge their Massachusetts Nurses Association into a new union along with the California Nurses Association and the United American Nurses. The process was a disappointing beginning in the quest for what so many nurses want: one strong democratic union to represent nurses who are now scattered and divided among a bewildering array of competing unions. Of the MNA's 23,000 members only some 500 were able to vote in the union's referendum.

  • Nurses ask court to back rights in NYS Association

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  • Four state nurses associations quit AFL-CIO union

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    In December, nurses associations in four states, New York, Ohio, Oregon, and Washington, withdrew from the United American Nurses, the national AFL-CIO union of registered nurses.

  • New York nurses battle over union ties

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    Registered nurses in New York State Nurses Association are embroiled in a bitter factional fight over how they should be linked to organized labor. In a non-binding opinion poll, 60% of the voters, 2,312 to 1,533, rejected a proposal to disaffiliate from one AFL-CIO collective bargaining unit. But the battle continues. The urgent question is whether the association officialdom which, despite disclaimers, obviously favors disaffiliation, will resolve the disputed issue democratically or whether it will try to steamroller its opposition.

  • Three major nurses unions unite in AFL-CIO

    United American Nurses, the California Nurses Association, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association --- three big unions of registered nurses that had been independent and somewhat in competition ---- joined forces in February to form one new union that claims to represent 150,000 members. The new union, called the United American Nurses-National Nurses Organizing Committee, will be part of the labor movement as an AFL-CIO affiliate.

  • Nurses now for sale, barter and trade

    By combining into a new 150,000-member national union affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the California Nurses Association, the United American Nurses, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association seemed to have taken a giant step toward creating the kind of united force so many nurse unionists are hoping for. Meanwhile, the move has triggered a swift and dizzying realignment among the many unions that aspire to represent registered nurses. Most notable and unexpected is the sudden love affair between top officials of the Service Employees and the California Nurses Association. From bitter competition over who shall represent nurses, they have shifted to an amicable agreement over dividing up the territory.

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