The hospital-backed campaign urging voters to oppose a ballot question that would set limits on how many patients nurses can oversee at hospitals says it's spent "millions" on advertising, dwarfing the $450,000 that supporters say they've spent.
Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, pointing to profits earned by hospitals in the state and to their own experiences at patient bedsides, marched Tuesday at the headquarters of Baystate Health in support of Question 1.
The Michigan Nurses Association on Tuesday filed unfair labor practice charges against Munson Medical Center on behalf of about 1,000 registered nurses. Charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board say the hospital has failed to bargain in good faith by refusing to bargain economics such as wages and benefits until all non-economics are agreed upon.
Nurses at Kalispell Regional Healthcare are organizing an effort to unionize, citing an array of grievances related to unfair wages, loss of benefits, unsafe work conditions, low morale and suboptimal patient environments.
A key figure in the University of Vermont Medical Center nurses’ union has resigned from the negotiating process, citing a disagreement about whether a compromise may have been reached in the months-long labor dispute. Julie MacMillan, a registered nurse who had been serving as the union’s lead negotiator, posted a message Friday on her Facebook page saying she wanted more input from union members after the latest round of negotiations with the hospital on Aug. 18.
Unionized professionals at Lifespan’s Rhode Island Hospital gave resounding approval to a five-year contract that includes periodic raises beginning with ratification and addresses staffing and other issues the union has emphasized for weeks.