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A nurse at Saint Vincent Hospital alleges that the Massachusetts Nurses Association, which the union demanded dues for nurses to keep their jobs, which she and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation argue is illegal.

A monthslong strike at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester may be ending after administrators announced a tentative deal with nurses.

It has been 202 days since hundreds of nurses from Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, walked off the job over what they called unsafe staffing levels, and they are demanding a full restitution of their positions as their strike for safe patient care continues. Saturday they brought a coalition of supporters, including social justice activists and labor rights advocates,…

Saturday they brought a coalition of supporters, including social justice activists and labor rights advocates, to picket outside the hospital as they have done many times now.

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, has hired more than 100 permanent replacement nurses amid an ongoing strike.

Striking nurses from a Massachusetts hospital will resume talks Thursday with management in the hopes of ending the work stoppage. A federal mediator working on negotiations scheduled two days of face-to-face discussions at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester. Nurses at St. Vincent went on strike March 8 demanding better staffing ratios, which they said is necessary to ensure patient safety….

A group of striking nurses from a Massachusetts hospital traveled to the headquarters of the hospital’s Dallas-based owner ahead of the scheduled resumption of negotiations later this week, officials said. A group of 17 nurses from St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, including 10 from the bargaining committee, have scheduled a news conference on Wednesday and will present a petition signed…

In one of the longest strikes in Massachusetts history at 115 days, nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester offered a counter proposal for hospital officials late Tuesday night.

In one of the longest strikes in Massachusetts history at 115 days, nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester offered a counter proposal for hospital officials late Tuesday night. The counter proposal was delivered to federal mediators around 11 p.m. Tuesday in response to an offer from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare earlier this week. The Massachusetts Nurse’s Association was unsatisfied with…

It’s been 112 days of walking the picket line outside Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, but striking nurses are still not satisfied with the latest proposal from hospital officials.

It’s been 112 days of walking the picket line outside Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, but striking nurses are still not satisfied with the latest proposal from hospital officials. Those nurses are mulling over a new proposal from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, which they claim isn’t a serious proposal. “While the nurses had hoped this would be a good faith...

It’s been 100 days of walking the picket line outside Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, a milestone striking nurses and their families never thought was possible. “Never thought we’d be out for 100 days,” said Marsha Holm, a same-day surgery nurse for 28 years. “It’s a sad day to mark. It’s pretty somber,” said Marlena Pellegrino, a medical/surgical nurse...

Tuesday marks 100 days since the start of the nurses’ strike at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester, with no end in sight.

Nearly 100 days into a nursing strike, elected leaders joined the picket line Saturday to show their support fir the staffers of St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Representative Jim McGovern and others attended the solidarity rally in Worcester. It has been three months since nurses walked off the job, demanding higher staffing levels.  “We...

Senator Warren and Congressman McGovern were just some of the political leaders that joined a rally in Worcester today in support of the St. Vincent nurses.

St. Vincent Hospital nurses in Worcester, Mass., are close to 11 weeks on strike. The picket lines were busy again this weekend after the hospital said this week it will hire replacement nurses.

Nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts have been on strike for two months over staffing levels. Now the hospital is hiring permanent replacements. Hospital officials said Wednesday that they would begin the process of hiring about 50 permanent replacement nurses, leaving any striking nurse whose position is filled without a guarantee of coming back at the end of…

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts will begin to hire permanent replacements for nurses who have been on strike for two months.

Two months after nurses went on strike, Saint Vincent Hospital says it will begin to hire permanent replacements.

A Massachusetts hospital whose nurses have been on strike for two months says it will begin to hire permanent replacements. Nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester went on strike March 8, with the Massachusetts Nurses Association calling for improved staffing ratios. The hospital said Wednesday that it would begin the process of hiring about 50 permanent replacement nurses, leaving…