From the Labor Council
02/01/2010 - 12:07pm
01/22/2010 - 9:21am
12/09/2009 - 10:33am
The power of money doesn't want you to have health care reform
12/09/2009 - 9:23am
Saugus Restaurant picketed by council is in trouble again!
Coalition rallies at State House for jobs program
12/04/2009 - 2:54pm
Women's Annual Breakfast video links
12/01/2009 - 10:37am
12/01/2009 - 8:54am
Roselyn Maina of Lynn, a Budget Rent A Car employee, addresses the Women's Committee of the North Shore Labor Council during the recent Women's Solidarity Breakfast.
 "Managers were always telling us A before B, Avis is union, so this is why it is the way it is. So I said, that's why I want to be in the union. Managers tried to tell us that we didn't need the union. They were so sure they were going to win the union election"
11/10/2009 - 3:56pm
11/03/2009 - 3:29pm
 Emmanuel Cherry
Breaking News
07/31/2008 - 10:05am
"...employees have no right to use the company email for "concerted activity."
07/25/2008 - 10:31am
As many of you already know, last week the State Senate voted on a drastically amended version of the Patient Safety Act that would actually make the current dangerous status quo even worse. Despite a vigorous effort to defeat this bill, we were unsuccessful, and the bill passed 23-13. Needless to say, we are very disappointed, a disappointment I know that all of you, who worked so hard on this legislation, will share.
In the immediate term, we must make sure that the Senate version of the bill does not somehow make its way to the Governor's desk. Accordingly, below are instructions, along with a chart listing how every member of the Senate voted.
This information will also be available on the MNA website @ http://www.massnurses.org/. Please note that on the action alert below we are asking that you make 2 calls - one to your senator, and one to your state rep.
Thanks to everyone for all of your hard work on this bill. While I know the outcome last week was disappointing, but we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.
Onward!
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Below is the list of how your Senator voted on SB2805, a dramatically harmful version of the Patient Safety Act that would allow the state's hospitals to continue the dangerous and deadly status quo and even make the situation worse.
Under this legislation, there would be no uniform standard of care and instead, the Department of Public Health would only be in charge of enforcing varying and inadequate standards created by the private sector hospital industry-including the for - profit hospitals. Simply put: this bill is a hazardous step backward, and would ensure that current unsafe conditions continue to deteriorate.
Last week, the MNA called upon the State Senate to reject this bill and 13 members of the Senate supported the MNA and voted no on SB2805.
- Look and and see how your Senator voted on this legislation and thank those that and voted no. We also encourage you to share your disappointment with your elected officials that voted to support SB2805.
- Next, call your State Representative and ask them to reject the Senate version of the Patient Safety Act.
To contact your legislator, call 617-722-2000 or find your elected official online.
SENATE VOTE - JULY 17, 2008
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Antonioni -Gardner, Leominster
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YES
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Augustus - Worcester
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NO
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Baddour - Merrimac, North Andover
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YES
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Berry - Beverly, Danvers, Salem, Peabody
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YES
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Brewer - Ashburnham, Barre, Charlton
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YES
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Brown - Attleboro, Wrentham, Needham,Wayland
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YES
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Buoniconti -Agawam, Chicopee, W.Springfield
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YES
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Candaras - Belchertown, Hampden, Longmeadow, Springfield
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YES
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Chandler - Berlin, Holden, Paxton, Princeton
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NO
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Creedon - Brockton, Halifax, Hanover, Whitman
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YES
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Creem - Brookline, Newton, Wellesley
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NO
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Downing - Ashfield, Williamsburg, Williamstown
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YES
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Fargo- Chelmsford, Concord, Waltham
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YES
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Galluccio- Charlestown, Cambridge, Everett
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NO
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Hart - Boston, 1st Suffolk
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NO
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Hedlund - Cohasset, Duxbury, Hingham, Weymouth
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NO
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Jehlen - Medford, Somerville, Woburn
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NO
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Joyce - Avon, Canton, Milton, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton
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YES
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Knapik - Chester, Chicopee, Southwick, Westfield
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YES
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Marzilli - Arlington, Billerica, Burlington, Lexington
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ABSENT
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McGee - Lynn, Marblehead, Nahant, Saugus, Swampscott
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NO
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Menard - Fall River, Lakeville, Somerset, Swansea, Westport
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YES
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Montigny - Achusnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Mattapoisett, New Bedford
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NO
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Moore - Bellingham, Blackstone, Douglas, Milford, Sutton, Uxbridge
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YES
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Morrissey - Abington, Braintree, Quincy, Rockland
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NO
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Murray - Bourne, Falmouth, Pembroke, Plymouth, Sandwich
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O'Leary - Brewster, Dennis, Chatham, Provincetown
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NO
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Pacheco - Bridgewater, Carver, Middleboro, Taunton
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ABSENT
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Panagiotakos - Dunstable, Groton, Lowell, Tyngsboro, Westford
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YES
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Petruccelli - Cambridge, Revere, Winthrop
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ABSENT
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Resor - Acton, Ayer, Boxboro, Littleton, Shirley, Sudbury, Westboro
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YES
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Rosenberg - Amherst, Greenfield, Hadley, Northampton
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YES
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Spilka - Ashland, Framingham, Franklin, Medway, Natick
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YES
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Tarr- Boxford, Gloucester, Rockport, Wilmington
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YES
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Timilty - Attleboro, Foxboro, Mansfield, Seekonk, Walpole
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NO
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Tisei - Malden, Melrose, Wakefield
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YES
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Tolman - Belmont, Watertown
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YES
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Tucker - Andover, Dracut, Lawrence, Tewksbury
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YES
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Walsh - Dedham, Norwood, Westwood
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NO
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Wilkerson - Boston 2nd Suffolk
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YES
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Barbara "Cookie" Cooke RN,
Associate Director
Massachusetts Nurses Association
Region 3 Community Organizer
Mobile Phone: 508.345.9219
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Top Labor Stories
Last updated 07/29/2008 - 8:53am
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 President Robert Haynes, new Board member Jeremy McKeen and AFT-Mass President Tom Gosnell pose at the podium at the recent Labor Futures forum during the Mass AFL-CIO's State of the Union convention.
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Massachusetts Labor News
12/08/2009 - 8:52pm
With working families trying to stretch every dollar to make ends meet, the City Council in Northampton, Mass., last night unanimously gave final approval to a resolution defining a living wage as a human right. With working families trying to stretch every dollar to make ends meet, the City Council in Northampton, Mass., last night unanimously gave final approval to a resolution defining a living wage as a human right.
12/08/2009 - 8:52pm
Community groups and unions who want to put the state’s 307,900 unemployed workers back on the job are rallying at the State House for a federal proposal to create 1 million jobs nationwide. Community groups and unions who want to put the state’s 307,900 unemployed workers back on the job are rallying at the State House for a federal proposal to create 1 million jobs nationwide.
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