Nurses REJECT Right-wing Effort to Decertify Their Union

Nurses at Maine Medical Center voted overwhelmingly to retain their union after two days of voting concluded Thursday night. Jessica Burbank, Cenk Uygur, and Alonzo Bodden discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

Read more HERE: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/19/landslide-1108-387-vote-maine-nurses-reject-effort-decertify-their-union

"Nurses at Maine Medical Center have voted by an overwhelming margin to keep the union that they opted to join last year, fending off a decertification effort backed by a right-wing legal group dedicated to rolling back workers' ability to organize and bargain collectively.

The vote, held in person on August 17 and 18, favored the union even more heavily than the initial 1,001 to 750 vote in 2021.

A tally released 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."

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