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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!”
One dead, one seriously injured after vehicle strikes Griswold tree wfsb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wfsb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated: 11:31 PM EDT May 2, 2021
GRISWOLD, Conn. One man is dead and another seriously injured in a crash in Griswold on Sunday afternoon.
Connecticut State Police say that a Mazda Miata driven by 55-year-old David Mack was headed north on Route 201 (Hopeville Road) in Griswold when it crashed about 1 p.m. The preliminary investigation indicates that prior to the intersection with Lestor Road, the car swerved towards the oncoming southbound lane of travel and crossed the double yellow line, eventually colliding with the metal guardrail. It then went back towards the northbound lane and eventually collided with a tree.
Griswold Fire Department personnel pronounced David Mack dead at the scene. The passenger in the car, 17-year-old Ben Robert Mack, sustained life-threatening injuries and was transported to Backus Hospital in Norwich.
The Day - Backus Hospital nurse to be Courtney s guest at State of the Union address - News from southeastern Connecticut theday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Luciana Herr shared her workplace injury stories at the press conference. | NNU
MINNEAPOLIS (PAI) In mid-March, Luciana Herr, RN, an inpatient psychiatry nurse at Abbott Northwest Hospital in Minneapolis, went to a patient’s room to rescue a co-worker whom a manic patient was assaulting. She came out much the worse.
“I was kicked and punched in the face,” Herr, of the Minnesota Nurses Association/National Nurses United, told an April 19 press conference on violence in the workplace. “I had a black eye the size of a pancake. It was the second time I had been assaulted in a few months.