“The unions say we need to compromise. No, we don’t!” Nurses support St. Vincent strikers in Worcester, Mass.
Some 700 nurses in the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) at St. Vincent Hospital are in the sixth week of their strike against unsafe staffing ratios in Worcester, Massachusetts, the most important struggle of health care workers in the US.
St. Vincent is owned by Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, a multibillion-dollar corporation that operates 65 hospitals across the country and is using the strike in Worcester to hold the line on staffing ratios to boost their bottom line.
Striking nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass. (WSWS Media)
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April 8 marked one month that 700 nurses have been on strike at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. The main demand of the nurses is the implementation of safe staffing ratios at the hospital an urgent necessity to protect the health and lives of nurses and patients alike.
The need for safe staffing ratios has been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to an increased influx of seriously ill patients and placed tremendous strain on nurses and other health care workers at St. Vincent.
By Jacob Perasso April 19, 2021 Nurses’ strike “is about safe care,“ nurse Bill Lahey, right, told rail workers Jacob Perasso, left, and Joe Allen, second from right, in Worcester, Mass., March 31.
WORCESTER, Mass. “This strike isn’t about the money, it’s about safe care,” Bill Lahey, a nurse for 44 years at St. Vincent Hospital here, told Joe Allen and myself, two rail workers who came to show solidarity from Albany, New York, March 31.
Some 700 Massachusetts Nurses Association members are now in the fifth week of their strike. Nurses report that very few strikers have crossed the picket line, and that a number of those who hadn’t walked out have been won to join the strike.
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WORCESTER, Mass., April 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ This Sunday, April 11, the St. Vincent Hospital nurses will begin their sixth week on strike as part of their ongoing struggle to convince Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare to address a growing patient safety crisis at the Worcester-based hospital.
As the strike continues, St. Vincent s for-profit owner is projected to spend more than $33.5 million to prolong the strike, inclusive of costs for hundreds of replacement nurses paid twice as much as 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.