WORCESTER Easter Sunday was just another day for St. Vincent nurses picketing outside the hospital, as the union entered the fifth week of its strike.
But the nurses celebrated the holiday with an Easter fun day, giving pickets a chance to at least be with their families as they fulfilled their strike duties, said Sandy Ellis, Central Mass. community organizer for the Massachusetts Nurses Association that is backing the union in its dispute with Tenet Healthcare.
“It’s not lost on us this is the first holiday families are able to get together with their families,” she said, referring to the more widespread vaccinations in Massachusetts since the winter holiday season.
A Facebook message identifying a nurse as "scab of the day" was posted Saturday, and nurses Jennifer Porter and Rebekah Pack said strikers on the picket line have carried blown up photos of their faces on cardboard cutouts and have made gestures as working nurses arrive and leave the hospital.