[zoeboboey]

Anyone have info on this? I received a postcard probably a month ago regarding safe patient/nurse ratios and how working with the NNOC/California Nurses Association would help Maine nurses have safer patient care and more tolerable working conditions. see http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-car...2102006-1.html

I've also heard that this is NOT such a great idea, that the CNA is famous for union busting and actually making things WORSE for nurses.

Any thoughts/ideas? To be honest I don't know much about it - I don't even know where to begin. Thanks!

[Freedom42]

Originally Posted by zoeboboey

Anyone have info on this? I received a postcard probably a month ago regarding safe patient/nurse ratios and how working with the NNOC/California Nurses Association would help Maine nurses have safer patient care and more tolerable working conditions. see http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-car...2102006-1.html

I've also heard that this is NOT such a great idea, that the CNA is famous for union busting and actually making things WORSE for nurses.

Any thoughts/ideas? To be honest I don't know much about it - I don't even know where to begin. Thanks!

CNA is a union, so I don't understand the union-busting description (although they do rival SEIU). The press release that you link to was actually issued in 2006, when the MSNA voted to affiliate with CNA. The media reported that a CNA rep was involved with the contract negotiations at Eastern Maine Medical Center last fall.

The Legislature enacted this law last year.

[zoeboboey]

Originally Posted by Freedom42

CNA is a union, so I don't understand the union-busting description (although they do rival SEIU). The press release that you link to was actually issued in 2006, when the MSNA voted to affiliate with CNA. The media reported that a CNA rep was involved with the contract negotiations at Eastern Maine Medical Center last fall.

The Legislature enacted this law last year.

Yes, thanks, they were referring to the SEIU - thanks for the reference. Are you involved in MSNA NNOC a union or any other nursing organization? I was in MSNA for a short period but confess I did not do my part; now I am out of the field temporarily due to working conditions and my own conditions - I was thinking of getting more involved at some level.

[Freedom42]

Originally Posted by zoeboboey

Yes, thanks, they were referring to the SEIU - thanks for the reference. Are you involved in MSNA NNOC a union or any other nursing organization? I was in MSNA for a short period but confess I did not do my part; now I am out of the field temporarily due to working conditions and my own conditions - I was thinking of getting more involved at some level.

I'm only a student at this point, but I follow MSNA and CNA pretty closely. I'm an ex-Teamster. I want my first nursing job (and all my nursing jobs, for that matter) to be in a union hospital if possible.

[zoeboboey]

Originally Posted by Freedom42

I'm only a student at this point, but I follow MSNA and CNA pretty closely. I'm an ex-Teamster. I want my first nursing job (and all my nursing jobs, for that matter) to be in a union hospital if possible.

That's awesome! thanks

Are you in your student nursing assoc too?