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Worcester,
Mass. On May Day outside of St. Vincent Hospital here, there was a sing-along going on. It was the 55th day that the nurses, members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, had been on strike at the hospital, and the sunny weather and blooming flowers meant morale was high.
Supporters, from local City Council member Khrystian King to the Worcester branch of the Democratic Socialists of America, as well as members of other unions like the Teamsters and IATSE, joined the nurses to celebrate the worker’s holiday and to demand that the hospital, as the thematically rewritten lyrics to one song went, “bring in more nurses to care in there!”
This story was originally published by the Asheville Watchdog. HCA Healthcare, which owns and operates Mission Hospital in Asheville, reported this month that it made $1.4 billion in profits for the first three months of 2021, more than double the amount for the same period last year. The new figures follow HCA’s report in February […] Search for:
This story was originally published by the Asheville Watchdog.
HCA Healthcare, which owns and operates Mission Hospital in Asheville, reported this month that it made $1.4 billion in profits for the first three months of 2021, more than double the amount for the same period last year.
The new figures follow HCA’s report in February that annual profits rose to a record $3.8 billion in 2020, despite the pandemic, based on what the company called “solid cost management.”
In a proxy statement filed last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission, HCA stated its primary objective is “providing the highest quality health care to our patients, while making a positive impact on the communities in which we operate.” But it rewards top executives far more on meeting financial performance targets than on meeting quality of care metrics.
2,000 Maine Nurses Form Union In Major Election Win
Maine Medical Center made news when it brought in anti-union consultants from out of state to fight the organizing drive.
Nurses in Maine appeared to have won one of the largest U.S. union elections in recent years on Thursday, voting by a 57-43 margin to join the Maine State Nurses Association in a preliminary tally.
If the labor board certifies the results of the mail-in election, the union will represent roughly 2,000 workers employed by Maine Medical Center at three facilities, the bulk of them at Maine Med in Portland.
Union elections involving thousands of private-sector workers have become rare in the U.S. The Maine vote is the largest this year aside from the unsuccessful union campaign involving 5,800 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama.
Lenoir Man Arrested In Connection To Murder Of Two-Year-Old Son
Michael Dale Summerow
Lenoir Man Arrested In Connection To Murder Of Two-Year-Old Son
April 29, 2021
38-year-old Michael Dale Summerow of Pope Lane in Lenoir was arrested Wednesday (April 28) by Caldwell County Sheriff’s Officers. He’s charged with murder and felony assault with a deadly weapon.
Summerow is charged in connection to the death of his child, Elijah Summerow, who was killed late last week. At about 11:40 last Friday night (April 23), Caldwell County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a call regarding a shooting at a residential address on Pope Lane in Lenoir. Deputies arrived to find three people suffering from gunshot wounds.