ANA TRIED TO STOP THE VOTE AND THEY FAILED!

The ANA filed suit seeking an injunction to stop tomorrow's meeting from
occurring and to replace it with a mail ballot.

Instead, the Judge ruled that tomorrow's vote (March 24th) is on. You need to
be there to cast your vote.

However, the judge will allow two and only two categories of members to vote
by a mail ballot.

That includes nurses who cannot vote because they had to work on Saturday, or
because of religious reasons.

All the votes cast at tomorrow's meeting will be counted towards the vote,
and this small group will be added to it to achieve the final tally.

Because of this decision, it is more important than ever that you show up and
cast your vote.

David Schildmeier
Director of Public Communications
Massachusetts Nurses Association
800-882-2056 x717 (Within Mass. only)
781-830-5717
781-821-4445 (fax)
781-249-0430 (cell phone)
508-426-1655 (pager)

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Subj: Re: [UnionTalk] MNA/ANA
Date: Friday, March 23, 2001 7:07:54 PM
From: BethERNC@aol.com
To: UnionTalk@yahoogroups.com

Dear Sandy,

Beth McGarry here from Uniontalk4nurses. I would like to extend my very best
wishes to all the Staff Nurses of Massachusetts and to all of you with the
MNA! Tomorrow is without a doubt one of the most important days in history
not only for Massachusetts nurses but for ALL nurses here in America who have
been what I would term as being under the thumb of the American Nurses Assoc.
-- sadly, at the expense of staff nurses, patients, the profession of
nursing, and the American health care system as well! We have been following
all the events in Massachusetts on Uniontalk for well over a year now and
most of us are well informed as to the issues and what is at stake. We have
been very fortunate not only to have Barry Adams on uniontalk but other
Massachusetts nurses such as Judybeth, Teana, Terri, and and so forth. I also
want to thank you for sending us Seachange Bulletins! I will most definitely
be thinking of all of you in Worcester, Mass, tomorrow and somehow I just
know that you are about to gain your independence! To think that this will
occur in the great union city of Worcester, where RNs had a strike that began
to change MOT and other dangerous working conditions for frontline nurses!
You should all feel very proud! I am SO excited and can only imagine how all
of you will be feeling around 4pm on March 24, 2001. All of us on UnionTalk
will be waiting to hear the news. Take care and again, BEST WISHES.

Sincerely,
Beth E. McGarry, RN - Florida

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Vote YES for ANA disaffiliation!
March 24, 2001
Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St., Worcester, MA
Doors open 11:30 AM - Meeting starts promptly at 1:00 PM

From Boston:

Take Mass. Pike West (route 90). Get off at exit 10 (Auburn exit) to Route
290 East. Take Route 290 to exit 16, which is the Central Street/Downtown
Worcester exit. Take a left onto Central St. and continue straight. Turn left
on Worcester Center Boulevard at the second set of lights. Turn right onto
Foster Street at first set of lights. Turn right onto Waldo Street two blocks
up. Enter the Fleet parking lot on the corner of Foster and Waldo Streets,
next to the rear entrance to Mechanics Hall (a glass facade). There are
several parking lots in the immediate area. We do not have a parking lot of
our own.

From Springfield:

Take Mass Pike East (1-90). Get off at East (I-90). Get off at Exit 10
(Auburn exit) to I-290. Take I-290 to Exit 16 which is the Central
Street/Downtown Worcester exit. Turn left onto Central Street and continue
straight. Turn left onto Worcester Center Boulevard at the second set of
lights. Turn right onto Foster Street at first set of lights. Turn right onto
Waldo Street two blocks up. Enter the Fleet parking lot on the corner of
Foster and Waldo Streets, next to the rear entrance to Mechanics Hall (a
glass facade). There are several parking lots in the immediate area. We do
not have a parking lot of our own.

From Fall River:

Take Route 24 to 495 North to 290 West. Get off on Exit 16 which is the
Central Street/Downtown Worcester exit. Take a right onto Central Street and
continue straight. Turn left on Worcester Center Boulevard at the second set
of lights. Turn right onto Foster Street at first set of lights. Turn right
onto Waldo Street two blocks up. Enter the Fleet parking lot on the corner of
Foster and Waldo Streets, next to the rear entrance to Mechanics Hall. (a
glass facade). There are several parking lots in the immediate area. We do
not have a parking lot of our own.

From Acton, Ayer, Berlin, Bolton, Boxboro, Harvard, Haverhill, Hudson,
Lawrence, Littleton, Lowell, Lunenburg, Stow:

Take 495 South to 290 West. Get off 290 at Exit 16, which is the Central
Street/Downtown Worcester exit. Take a right off the ramp on to Central
Street and continue straight. Turn left on Worcester Center Boulevard at the
second set of lights. Turn right onto Foster Street at the first set of
lights. Turn right onto Waldo Street two blocks up. Enter the Fleet parking
lot on the corner of Foster and Waldo Streets, next to the rear entrance of
Mechanics Hall (a glass facade). There are several parking lots in the
immediate area. We do not have a parking lot of our own.

From Boston, Framingham, Natick, Shrewsbury, Westboro:

Take Route 9 West straight into Worcester. Route 9 turns into Belmont Street.
3-1/2 miles down the road on your left you will see the Worcester Police
Station. At those lights, take a left onto Worcester Center Boulevard.
Continue on Worcester Center Boulevard to Foster Street. Take a right onto
Foster Street and two streets up on your right is Waldo Street. Take a right
onto Waldo Street. The Fleet parking lot will be on your left and right next
to that is the rear entrance to Mechanics Hall (a glass facade). There are
several parking lots in the immediate area. We do not have a parking lot of
our own. There is ample parking at the Worcester Outlet Mall nearby. Buses
are available in every district and through MNA bargaining units.

Please Note: Scents may trigger responses in those with chemical sensitivity.
Please avoid wearing scented personal products and refrain from smoking when
you attend this meeting. Thank you!

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Web Directory:

Sandy's Links
<http://users.rcn.com/wbumpus/sandy>
Massachusetts Nurses Association <http://www.massnurses.org>
California Nurses Association <http://www.califnurses.org>
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions <http://www.nursesunions.ca>
Massachusetts Labor Party <http://www.masslaborparty.org>
Nurse Advocate <http://www.nurseadvocate.org>
UnionTalk4Nurses <http://www.uniontalk4nurses.org>
Labor Notes <http://www.labornotes.org>
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<http://www.nurses.com/content/hubs/dir.asp?hub=news>

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