CANTON, Mass., Feb. 6, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United
(MNA/NNU) nurses who support Bernie
Sanders for his values on health care and other social and
environmental justice issues will join health care workers from
across New England on Saturday at a Health Care Rally for the U.S.
presidential candidate.
What: A get-out-the-vote rally of health care
workers and canvassing effort
When: Saturday, Feb. 6
at 11 a.m.
Where: 254 N. Broadway, #113, Salem, NH
Who: Available for media interviews will be registered
nurses from throughout Massachusetts, including Karen Higgins, RN at Boston Medical Center and
National Nurses United Co-President, and Patricia Healy, RN at Brigham and Women's
Hospital in Boston
Karen Higgins will be speaking at
the rally along with Mari Cordes, RN
at the University of Vermont Medical
Center, and Cokie Giles, RN,
president of the Maine State Nurses Association and vice president
of National Nurses United.
NNU, which represents some 185,000 nurses from California to Florida, became the first national union to
endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders last
August. NNU nurses have been campaigning across the U.S. for months
and last Monday night celebrated Sanders' dramatic finish in
Iowa. Saturday's rally kicks off a
final push for MNA/NNU nurses ahead of the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 9. Nurses will be on the ground in the
Granite State through Tuesday
night.
"Bernie Sanders shares our values
by saying that health care is a right, and by continuing to
champion single payer healthcare," Higgins said. "Bernie's
challenge to all of us has been to get involved in a grassroots
movement that transforms America. Nurses have taken up that
challenge. If we stand together, there is nothing we cannot
accomplish."
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Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association/National
Nurses United is the largest professional health care organization
and the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. Its 23,000 members
advance the nursing profession by fostering high standards of
nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of
nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view
of nursing, and by lobbying the Legislature and regulatory agencies
on health care issues affecting nurses and the public. The MNA is a
founding member of National Nurses United, the largest national
nurses' union in the United States
with more than 170,000 members from coast to coast.
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