'We have now won two elections. Our historic first contract is next.'
late Thursday showed that the Maine Med nurses voted 1,108 to 387 in support of retaining the Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses United as their collective bargaining representative, a nearly 75% vote in favor of the union.
Jonica Frank, a registered nurse at Maine Med and a member of the union's bargaining team, said that"we have already negotiated historic improvements in pay, in working conditions, and on patient safety issues" since voting to join the union last year. "A 'no' vote in this election would have meant that all these things could be taken away from us," said Frank."Once again in this election, we have spoken. And we are not going back!"This week's vote was spurred by a petition that Maine Med nurse Davin Brooks submitted to the National Labor Relations Board in June with the signatures of more than 500 fellow nurses. The petition called for a vote to decertify the union.
The decertification push was openly backed by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, an anti-union organization that"The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a right-wing, out-of-state organization that goes around trying to get workers to decertify their unions,” Mary Kate O'Sullivan, an RN in the medical-surgical unit of Maine Med,"They thought because we were a new union, they could manipulate Maine Med nurses and overturn our 2021 election.
"The so-called 'Right to Work Foundation' is not welcome at Maine Med," O'Sullivan added,"and it's not welcome in Maine.", the foundation has"supplied the lawyers for most of the anti-union cases before the U.S. Supreme Court," including the infamouscase in which the high court ruled that public-sector unions can't require non-members to pay fair-share fees to help cover collective bargaining costs.
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