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Striking Massachusetts nurses press their staffing concerns outside Tenet's North Texas HQ


Striking Massachusetts nurses press their staffing concerns outside Tenet’s North Texas HQ
Nurses and supporters rallied together to deliver a 16-foot-long petition signed by more than 700 nurses.
Marlena Pellegrino, a 44-year nurse at St. Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts, speaks to fellow protesters outside Tenet Healthcare’s Farmers Branch headquarters after delivering a petition signed by 700 striking nurses on July 7, 2021.(Shelby Tauber / Special Contributor)
6:28 PM on Jul 7, 2021 CDT
The longest active nursing strike in over a decade arrived in North Texas Wednesday outside the headquarters of hospital operator Tenet Healthcare.
At Tenet-owned St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., 800 nurses walked off the job March 8 to demand improvements in staffing. Represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, the striking nurses say the problem has only gotten worse during the COVID-19 pandemic. ....

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Nurses Are Striking Across the Country Over Patient Safety


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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! ....

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Catholic Hospitals Are Putting Profit Over Patients


The Rise of the Corporate-Catholic “Zombie Hospital”
A labor fight at Saint Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts reveals how massive health systems use weak religious affiliations as cover for toxic practices, from unions to reproductive health.
Courtesy of Amy Littlefield
Rain dots the sidewalk outside Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, as Pastor Moses Makor of Christ Vision Ministries ascends a plywood podium. Makor, dressed to preach, in black with a mustard-yellow collar, works at the hospital as a nurse. He and hundreds of co-workers have been out on strike since March 8 over nurse-to-patient ratios they say have led to unsafe conditions and an increase in patient bedsores and falls. It’s a Wednesday in late April, and the nurses surround the podium at the interfaith vigil, cupping battery-powered candles in the gray evening light as Makor quotes from the Epistle of James.  ....

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