The healthcare professionals voted 55-2 to form a union to help improve their patient care and working environment
BRIGHTON, Mass., Aug. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Allied health professionals at Boston Medical Center – Brighton (formerly Steward Healthcare’s St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center) have voted overwhelmingly to join the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), winning their union election by a margin of 55-2 on Tuesday, August 5.
The group of 93 healthcare professionals – including physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, social workers, dietitians, medical technologists, behavioral health counselors and pharmacists – will now be represented by the 26,000-member MNA, the largest union and professional organization of nurses and healthcare professionals in Massachusetts.
Their union victory follows the healthcare professionals’ June 27 filing with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to secure union representation and an equal voice to ensure better patient care and working conditions.
“The union’s overwhelming victory demonstrates our healthcare professionals’ ability to organize ourselves and work towards common goals to improve conditions for patients and staff,” said Dante Salvucci, a BMC – Brighton social worker and member of the organizing committee.
The new bargaining unit will begin preparations to elect their union committee members and negotiate their first union contract, aiming to address staffing levels, workload, professional respect, and other key patient safety and workplace issues identified during the organizing campaign. The MNA has also separately long represented registered nurses at BMC – Brighton.
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Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Its 26,000 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.
SOURCE Massachusetts Nurses Association
