Annual E&GW retreat a success!Over a three-day period, members of local bargaining units, E&GW leadership and MNA MNA Monitored Natural Attenuation MNA Massachusetts Nurses Association MNA Michigan Nonprofit Association MNA Mini-Nutritional Assessment MNA Mission to North America (Presbyterian Church in America outreach) staff engaged in active dialogue with specialists in organizing, wage and hour requirements, labor management relations and systems development to continue the process of building and strengthening MNA throughout Montana. The agenda covered a broad range of issues. On the policy level, E&GW Chair Amy Hauschild provided the group with an overview of UAN UAN - User Action Notation. A notation from VPI for representation of activity in a graphical user interface. [H. Hartson et al, ACM Trans on Info Sys, July 1990]. activities including the passage of the Mobilization Fund, which will raise membership dues by $30.00 annually starting January 1, 2007. This fund will be used to assist state associations in organizing new nursing units. Montana is currently enjoying the assistance of a new National Organizer from the UAN. Jason Hatch, formerly with the Oregon Nurses Association has been assisting the E&GW and MNA staff to assess organizing opportunities around the state. The implications of an NLRB ruling sometime early this fall on the 2001 Kentucky River Kentucky River Tributary of the Ohio River in north-central Kentucky, U.S. It is formed by the confluence of North, Middle, and South forks, which originate in the Cumberland Mountains. It is navigable along its 259-mi (417-km) course by means of locks. case that classified charge RNs as supervisors were also reviewed. Training for this year's Retreat focused on input provided by members in a December MNA survey. The survey showed that local bargaining unit leaders and activists wanted additional training on the how to's See tutorials in this publication. of developing local leaders and activists, as well as education on issues relevant to collective bargaining collective bargaining, in labor relations, procedure whereby an employer or employers agree to discuss the conditions of work by bargaining with representatives of the employees, usually a labor union. . MEA/MFT Organizing Director Melissa Case provided materials and guidance concerning the challenges, pitfalls and techniques of designing and implementing an internal organizing campaign. Authorities from the state Department of Labor shared their expertise on Wage and Hour laws and Montana's Nursing Scope of Practice laws and regulations. In addition, participants received insights into effective conflict resolution, a primer on basic collective bargaining skills and an overview of the Family Medical Leave and Americans with Disabilities Acts Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. civil-rights law, enacted 1990, that forbids discrimination of various sorts against persons with physical or mental handicaps. . Using the various tools and techniques developed during the Retreat, participants completed their training with a strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. session focused on growing local unit agendas and projects for the next year. Pat Wise, Labor Relations Director |
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