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St. Vincent Nurses and Tenet Management to Resume Negotiations on Monday, April 26
April 25, 2021 GMT
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WORCESTER, Mass., April 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The nurses of St. Vincent Hospital and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare will resume negotiations on Monday, April 26 at 3 p.m., the first round of negotiations since the nurses launched their strike on March 8 for a new contract that the nurses believe must include needed staffing improvements to ensure safer care for all the patients at the facility to end the strike.
Telegram & Gazette Staff
WORCESTER As a labor strike here enters its eighth week, negotiations between St. Vincent Hospital nurses and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare will resume 3 p.m. Monday.
The talks will be the first to occur since a contract discussion stalemate last month over improved staffing and patient safety saw the nurses move to strike March 8 with support from the Massachusetts Nurses Association.
Following discussions Friday with the MNA and Tenet, which owns St. Vincent Hospital, a federal mediator scheduled Monday s bargaining session, with Tenet agreeing to present a long-awaited proposal that the nurses hope can move the process forward to end the strike.
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WORCESTER, Mass., April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ On Monday, while other families in Massachusetts will be taking time to get away with their families during school vacation week, most of the St. Vincent Hospital nurses will be reporting to the picket line, beginning their seventh week on strike in their ongoing struggle to convince Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare to address a growing patient safety crisis at the Worcester-based facility.
As the strike continues, the nurses for-profit owner is projected to spend more than $39 million to prolong the strike, inclusive of costs for hundreds of replacement nurses paid twice as much as the regular staff, more than $30,000 a day for police details, along with other costs associated with avoiding meeting the nurses demands for better staffing and other patient safety measures.