[1]National Nurses United

We have
some great news to share with you:

This week — by a huge 57 percent margin — registered nurses at Maine
Medical Center voted to join the Maine State Nurses Association
(MSNA)/National Nurses United, forming their first-ever union!

[ [link removed] ]A mosaic of Maine Medical Center nurses

Maine Medical Center is the largest hospital in the state of Maine, and
this victory means that MSNA will now represent 2,000 RNs at Maine Medical
Center, the Scarborough Surgery Center, and the MMC Brighton Campus in
Portland, ME. They’re also now a part of more than 170,000 RNs that
National Nurses United represents from coast to coast.

Nurses at Maine Med cited growing concerns about inadequate staffing,
mandatory scheduling that requires nurses to rotate between working days
and nights that they say leads to burnout and fatigue, lack of meal and
break relief, assignments to work in units for which they do not have
clinical experience and proper orientation, and other workplace
improvements and standards.

“MaineHealth has grown tremendously in recent years, but sometimes it
feels like they’ve ‘outgrown’ bedside nurses’ clinical judgement,” said
Maine Med Ambulatory Surgical Unit RN CJ Morse. “With a union and a union
contract, RNs will have a real voice and we can hold MaineHealth
accountable to our perspective as patient advocates.”

[ [link removed] ]To celebrate this incredible victory, we wanted to call upon this
community to send support and congratulations to the Maine Med nurses who
made this happen. Will you share a short message of congratulations on
this form? We’ll collect your responses and share them with the team.

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We are so grateful to the nurses, organizers, and community members who
worked tirelessly over many months to secure this important victory — and
we couldn’t be more proud of their unity, perseverance, advocacy, courage,
and dedication.



Thursday’s historic victory in Maine was a win for workers
everywhere. This win is the first
step of many to give nurses the respect they deserve as they care for us —
and reinforces the fact that when nurses are able to speak with a united
voice, all of us are safer.

Let’s keep organizing,

National Nurses United

P.S. [ [link removed] ]For more information on the union win, you can check out our
latest video from National Nurses United on Facebook here. Please watch
and share widely with your friends and family to celebrate this momentous
win. Thank you!



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