MNA Blog (Page 135)

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From MNA Bargaining Team Member Lori Christian, RN

Today, we presented our proposals on health insurance, salary, and protecting union work.

Throughout these negotiations, management’s chief spokesman has said repeatedly that there is no analytical data that better nurse to patient ratios improve care.  We presented them with a study released this month which shows that “lower ratios are associated with significantly lower mortality…nurses’ burnout and job dissatisfaction were lower, and nurses reported consistently better quality of care.”

We continue to talk about the importance of safe staffing, but our concerns fall on deaf ears.
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From MNA Bargaining Team Member Kevin Campbell , RNC, Fairview Riverside

Today, we continued the dance of immobility. Management continues to ignore discussing topics important to staffing, patient safety and the MNA insurance plan. Your team continues to struggle with getting the hospitals to see that we are very serious about our proposals and very serious about safe patient care. Again we heard the mantra of being stewards of a shrinking revenue source and needing to have everything equal among all employees. (Except maybe the CEO!)

The hospital did present our team with a trio of options, all of which required your team to concede several major issues, while the hospital would give up one or two smaller issues.
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From your MNA Allina Bargaining Team:

Today at bargaining, we asked the employer to be clear on their proposals.  We focused on their proposals on floating, work agreements, layoff (and seniority as it pertains to layoffs), low need language, the Baylor Program, Unit Closure Language, and Nursing Practice, Staffing Advisory, and other committees.

We told management that they have not made a convincing case on any of their proposals. We asked them why the need for the change?  Why tear down what both sides have worked on collaboratively for forty some years?  Management could not answer our questions. 
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