Nurses strike at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester continues as both sides are no closer after first meeting since March
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The hope generated by the first meeting between the nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital and Tenet Healthcare in nearly two months quickly evaporated Monday evening as each side appears to be no closer to accepting a resolution.
Monday’s meeting represented the first between the two sides since the strike began on March 8. Tenet Healthcare, the Dallas-based parent company of Saint Vincent Hospital, came to the table with an offer after the nurses last proposal was shot down when the two met in early March.
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WORCESTER, Mass., April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The nurses of St. Vincent Hospital and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare held the first round of negotiations since the nurses launched their strike on March 8 for a new contract that the nurses believe must include needed staffing improvements to ensure safer care for all the patients at the facility to end the strike. Unfortunately, Tenet came to the table without addressing the nurses call for safer staffing standards that the nurses had raised prior to the strike, and which had been communicated to the mediator on Friday when the negotiations were scheduled.
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