Newton Wellesley Hospital Nurses Vote to Ratify New Contract

Pact Includes Limits on Floating of Nurses, Pay Raise and No Change to Benefits

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Jul 02, 2015, 09:17 ET

WELLESLEY, Mass., July 2, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the Massachusetts Nurses Association:

The nurses of Newton Wellesley Hospital voted yesterday to ratify a new union contract, which was negotiated last Monday, averting the need for a strike that was set for June 30. The one-year pact includes language the nurses sought to reduce the floating of nurses as a staffing mechanism, a 1 percent across the board pay raise for all nurses retroactive to October 1, 2014 and no change in the nurses' current benefit package. The new contract will expire on September 30, 2015.

Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United is the largest professional health care organization and the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Its 23,000 members advance the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Legislature and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public. The MNA is a founding member of National Nurses United, the largest national nurses' union in the United States with more than 170,000 members from coast to coast.

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