May 6, 2021 5:55 pm
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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) Nurses and officials at St. Vincent Hospital are still undergoing negotiations to resolve a strike that has carried into a third month.
Both parties restarted negotiations Wednesday morning, with the talks continuing into the evening.
Nurses, represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association union, are advocating for a 1:4 nurse to patient ratio on medical/surgical floors and telemetry units, increased staffing in the emergency department, and ancillary support in each unit.
The hospital’s parent company, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, has offered wage and salary increases, but nurses have continued to advocate for more staffing.
Registered Nurses and supporters stand in a picket line and wave to cars as they drive by outside St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts on February 24, 2021. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)
Nurses and officials at St. Vincent Hospital are still undergoing negotiations to resolve a strike that has carried into a third month.
Both parties restarted negotiations Wednesday morning, with the talks continuing into the evening.
Nurses, represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association union, are advocating for a 1:4 nurse to patient ratio on medical/surgical floors and telemetry units, increased staffing in the emergency department, and ancillary support in each unit.
Massachusetts nurses on strike back at the bargaining table
May 6, 2021
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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) Nurses and officials at St. Vincent Hospital are still undergoing negotiations to resolve a strike that has carried into a third month.
Both parties restarted negotiations Wednesday morning, with the talks continuing into the evening.
Nurses, represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association union, are advocating for a 1:4 nurse to patient ratio on medical/surgical floors and telemetry units, increased staffing in the emergency department, and ancillary support in each unit.
The hospital’s parent company, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, has offered wage and salary increases, but nurses have continued to advocate for more staffing.
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WORCESTER, Mass., May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The nurses of St. Vincent Hospital and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare will hold their third round of negotiations on Wednesday, with talks beginning at 10 a.m. as the nurses will present a comprehensive proposal to address the longstanding patient safety crisis that forced the nurses out onto the street on March 8.
This round of talks followed Tenet s presentation on Saturday, where the corporation for the first time made a long-awaited proposal that opens the door to a substantive discussion on the nurses main issue, which is the need for safer staffing levels to ensure safer patient care.
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WORCESTER, Mass., May 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The nurses of St. Vincent Hospital and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare held the second round of negotiations since the nurses launched their strike on March 8 today, where Tenet for the first time made a long-awaited proposal that opens the door to a substantive discussion on the nurses main issue, which is the need for safer staffing levels to ensure safer patient care.
The nurses negotiating committee will take the next few days to meet and carefully evaluate the hospital s proposal and will be back to the table for negotiations on Wednesday at 10 a.m. to present a comprehensive response on what nurses need to settle the contract and end the strike. At this time, the nurses will not be discussing the specifics of, or the value of, what the hospital has proposed, but see it as a positive step in the process.