MNA Purpose, Goals and 2011 Priorities

MNA Purpose
The purpose of the Minnesota Nurses Association, a union of professional nurses with unrestricted RN membership, shall be to advance the professional, economic, and general well-being of nurses and to promote the health and well-being of the public.
These purposes shall be unrestricted by considerations of age, color, creed, disability, gender, health status, lifestyle, nationality, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
 

MNA Strategic Goals

1. MNA empowers registered nurses to use their collective strength, knowledge, and experience to advance and enhance safe and professional nursing practice, nursing leadership, and the community health and well-being.
    
2. MNA exemplifies a positive, powerful union of professional nurses that advances nursing and patient interests in the Upper Midwest.
    
3. MNA promotes effective RN staffing and safe working conditions for both patients and registered nurses in direct patient care, in policy and political arenas, and in our communities in the Upper Midwest.
    
4. MNA increases membership and participation as a union of professional nurses through effective internal and external organizing, member activism, education, and mobilization.
    
5. MNA actively promotes social justice, cultural diversity, and the health, security, and well-being of all in the Upper Midwest in its organizational programs and in collaboration with partner organizations.
    
6. MNA, in solidarity with the National Nurses United and the AFL-CIO, will promote the rights of patients, nurses, and workers across the United States.

2011 Organizational Priorities

1. Position MNA for negotiations from strength across Minnesota.
    
2. Transform MNA to capitalize on grassroots member collective power and activism to achieve MNA goals.
    
3. Organize to increase MNA membership, participation, and solidarity to promote the MNA mission and strategic goals through political activism, collective action, organizing of new bargaining units, and development of local and regional activity.
    
4. Educate and mobilize members around health care reform and pursue short- and long-term strategies to achieve a single payer health care system with guaranteed health care for all.
    
5. Continue MNA’s campaign for patient safety to ensure the integrity of nursing practice, nursing practice environments, and advance safe patient staffing standards and principles through worksite collective action, collective bargaining, legislative initiative, grassroots organizing, political action, public visibility, and education consistent with the MNA Strategic Plan and the objectives of National Nurses United (NNU).
    
6. Involve the labor community in advancing labor, nursing, and patient issues.
    
7. Play an integral role in building the National Nurses United.