MNA Nurses and Healthcare Professionals to Join Boston City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George for National Nurses Week Event on May 11 at City Hall
Nurses and Essaibi George, who has partnered with the MNA on her mayoral candidacy s public health platform, will discuss the experiences of nurses over the past year and legislative solutions nurses have proposed to fix to longstanding healthcare system problems
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BOSTON, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ As part of National Nurses Week, nurses and healthcare professionals with the Massachusetts Nurses Association will join with Boston City Councilor and Mayoral Candidate Annissa Essaibi George for an event on May 11 that will highlight the daunting challenges healthcare workers have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and legislative solutions nurses have proposed.
NYU graduate student strike set to enter its third week as union seeks to officially end strike at Columbia
Picket line with striking NYU graduate students
There are growing reports of systematic efforts by NYU to break the strike. The university is reportedly forcing professors and lecturers in many departments to do the job of their striking teaching and course assistants, threatening that they could otherwise be fired.
Meanwhile, at Columbia University, the Graduate Student Organization Committee, which is affiliated with the United Auto Workers, is holding a vote on officially ending their strike which was “paused” by the union after graduate students rejected a sell-out deal arranged by the UAW and the university administration.
Massachusetts federal delegation calls on Tenet Healthcare to expedite COBRA benefits to striking nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester
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Nearly ever member of Massachusetts’ federal congressional delegation signed a letter on Wednesday urging Tenet Healthcare to expedite the COBRA benefits that are entitled to nearly 800 striking nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester.
It represented the second letter in as many days from members of Congress to Tenet regarding the nurses strike. Also on Wednesday, a letter signed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Ed Markey, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern and U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan urged Tenet Healthcare Executive Chairman and CEO Ronald Rittenmeyer to work with the nurses to come to an agreement.
By State House News Service
Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association on Thursday kicked off National Nurses Week with what union President Katie Murphy described as a stop on their no cupcake tour.
More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Murphy, an intensive care unit nurse at Brigham and Women s Hospital, said that rather than treats and other tokens, nurses want to see legislative action that will improve conditions for them and their patients. This year, what nurses really want is not pizza or flowers or accolades, she said at an event outside of the State House. What we would like you to celebrate National Nurses Week with is safe staffing, with workplace violence prevention, with occupational presumption and with the protection of essential services.
PLYMOUTH – Registered nurses from BID-Plymouth hospital are feeling unappreciated this National Nurses Day.
Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association planned to rally in downtown Plymouth Thursday to call attention to their ongoing talks for a new contract with hospital management. The nurses say they are fighting for the resources they need to recruit and retain staff to ensure optimum patient care.
Delegations of nurses planned to hold signs at the entrance to Brewster Gardens and on the lawn of Town Hall starting at 4 p.m. Thursday (National Nurses Day).
Nurses from BID-Plymouth, MNA President Katie Murphy, Plymouth Select Board member Betty Cavacco, state Rep. Kathy LaNatra (D-Kingston) and Pembroke Selectwoman Becky Coletta were among those scheduled to speak at 5:30 p.m. at a rally on the Town Hall lawn.