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Nurses at Eastern Maine Medical Center held the first bargaining session for their new contract on May 30. Their key proposals address patient safety, caring for the caregivers and nurse retention. To drive home their commitment to these principles, nurses brought with them an over-sized copy of their "Platform Petition" outlining these points and signed by over 500 nurses throughout the hospital.

Maine Press Releases

Patients Are My Special Interest

Nurses at Eastern Maine Medical Center Ratify MSNA Union Contract

In a decisive vote Friday night, registered nurses at Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) ratified the “tentative agreement” that they reached with the hospital just one week ago. The contract agreement is effective immediately.

MSNA - Maine State Nurses Association
September 22, 2018

• Maine

Strong Unions Protect Our Patients

Eastern Maine Medical Center Nurses Reach Landmark Tentative Contract Agreement

Registered nurses at Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) have reached a tentative three-year contract agreement with the hospital, featuring breakthrough staffing language, the Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (MSNA/NNOC/NNU) announced today.

Maine State Nurses Association
September 17, 2018

• Maine

Nurse at vigil

Eastern Maine Medical Center Nurses Held Vigil Over Safe Staffing Concerns In Bangor

Registered nurses with the Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) held a candlelight vigil Thursday evening to shine a light on a critical safe staffing concern at the medical facility in Bangor, Main

Maine State Nurses Association/NNOC
August 28, 2018

• Maine

Maine News

Cartoon with gears

Maine nurses oppose Pacific trade pact's gifts to billionaire drug companies

Nurses are patient advocates — and by extension advocates for our patients' families and our communities - and today we are sounding an alert on theTrans-Pacific Partnership, an international agreement that puts the public health of Maine, and the nation, at risk.

Cokie Giles, Special to the BDN / Bangor Daily News
January 22, 2016

• Maine

Unionized Nurses at EMMC Vote to Authorize Strike

Unionized nurses at Eastern Maine Medical Center voted Thursday to authorize a strike if the hospital fails to better address their patient safety concerns, including “unsafe staffing.”

Jackie Farwell, Bangor Daily News
June 5, 2015

• Maine

Work with nurses to improve care

Nurses at Mount Desert Island Hospital have struggled since 2004 to make new technology a safe and effective tool to enhance patient care. But management has not taken the nurses seriously when they reported “near misses” with medications. Due to the nurses’ diligence, a new group of remote pharmacists have been employed, and so far, the mistake rate has declined.

Cokie Giles, RN, President of the Maine State Nurses Association / Mount Desert Islander
February 13, 2015

• Maine

Maine Blog

Bonnie Castillo, RN and Executive Director of CNA/NNU

As Largest US Nurses Union Goes Through Leadership ‘Shift Change,’ Our Fight is Unwavering

What will happen now that I’ve taken over as the next Executive Director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United?

Bonnie Castillo, Executive Director of NNU/CNA
March 13, 2018

• Medicare For All

• Nationwide• California• Maine• MIssouri• Texas• Ohio• Florida• Illinois

Maureen Hayward, RN

Maureen Hayward RN and Chief Steward of Maine State Nurses Association on Nurse Talk Radio

We're talking about recent Legislation that was introduced to the Maine State Legislative Committee to hold hospitals accountable for elimination of major care facilities.

Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio
December 4, 2017

• Nurse Talk

• Maine

NNU Nurses Across America March for Healthy Planet, Healthy Patients

A toxic environment leads to illnesses that become a nurse’s job to heal. That’s why 70 National Nurses United (NNU) RNs stood together with 300,000 other marchers to demand environmental justice at the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

National Nurses United
May 1, 2017

• Environmental Justice

• California• District of Columbia• Florida• Maine• Michigan• Minnesota• North Dakota• Nationwide

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