Contact:
Terri Peaphon, RN, Labor Organizer
517/349-5640, ext. 23 or (cell) 517/420-4125
terri.peaphon@minurses.org
Carol Feuss
Director of Communication and Integrated Marketing
Michigan Nurses Association
517/349-5640, ext. 39 or (cell) 517/230-4086
carol.feuss@minurses.org
June 29, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Michigan Nurses Association selected
by registered nurses
RNs at Central
Michigan Community Hospital vote to affiliate with
MNA
Mt. Pleasant, MI – The Registered Nurses
Association, the local independent RN union at Central
Michigan Community Hospital, decisively voted for
the Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) as their union
affiliation.
“The 107 registered nurses at CMCH face
many of the same work place difficulties that our
members across the state struggle to address. The
RNs saw the advantage of affiliating with a strong,
state-wide union that would bring their political
and collective bargaining experience to the local
unit, says Terri Peaphon, RN, MNA Labor Organizer.
“The RN leadership at CMCH is committed
to building a stronger union – by incorporating
their work at the local level, with MNA’s
experience at the state level. Certainly, having
MNA’s support and the force of our national
union, the United American Nurses, creates a more
powerful and dynamic partnership, says John Karebian,
MNA Associate Executive Director of Labor Relations.
“As healthcare systems become increasingly
revenue driven, independent register nurse unions
are seeing the value to affiliating with a strong
state-wide union.”
The local RN union leadership will continue in
their positions and begin working with MNA to strategies
to resolve the issues they are currently facing.
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The Michigan Nurses Association, nurses’ voice
for 100 years, is the largest nurses’ union
in the State of Michigan. The Michigan Nurses Association
(MNA) promotes the economic and general welfare
of nurses in the workplace, fosters high standards
of nursing practice, and lobbies the legislature
and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting
nurses and recipients of nursing services. MNA is
a constituent member of the American Nurses Association
and the United American Nurses, as well as an affiliate
of the AFL-CIO.
