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Article: Nurses may join big union ; State's locals seek lobbying power
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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Unionized nurses in Massachusetts are moving toward affiliating
with their counterparts in California and more than 20 other states
to create the largest nurses union in US history, a 150,000-member
powerhouse that would lobby lawmakers for higher staffing levels and
an overhaul of the nation's health care system.
The move could give the state's nurses more bargaining power with
hospitals and aid organizing efforts at nonunion health care
providers such as Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. But it is being opposed by some
nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital and elsewhere who do not want
to pay the added dues needed to finance the ...