Nurses Outside Maine Medical Center, Portland, Several Years Ago.

The Maine Department of Labor (DOL) has issued a citation to Northern Maine Medical Center (NMMC) for regulatory violations, includng misclassifying nurses as subcontractors, failing to pay nurses overtime, failing to pay nurses their wages in a timely manner and requiring nurses to sign contracts that exempted NMMC from Maine’s labor laws according to a press release issued late last month by the  Maine State Nurses Association.

The citation, which listed 77 violaltions of Maine’s labor regulations by NMMC, followed a Complaint initiated by Maine State Nurses Assocation/National Nurses Organizing Committee(MSNA/NNOC) which represents the nurses at NMMC.

“Violations like these are why NMMC nurses organized,” said Brad Martinez, RN in the emergency department.  NMCC played by its own set of rules, until nurses unionized and exercised our power to hold them accountable.”

Nurses at NMMC are negotiating their first contract after winning their union election in January of 2024.