On the 124th day of the nurses strike at Saint Vincent Hospital, the Massachusetts Nurses Association walked away from the table. Staffing ratios still remain one of the key contentious issues. The National Union of Healthcare Workers couldn’t resist piling on, picketing at several California hospitals in support of the Massachusetts strike.
Healthcare employees and their unions are not likely to take the mandating of Covid-19 vaccinations lying down. The SEIU has already begun to speak out, while workers at a Texas hospital filed suit after 178 of them refused to comply. A judge threw out the suit, and 153 of the workers were either fired or resigned.
Fallout from Covid-19 struck again as about 500 employees of a health tech company announced their intent to unionize. The group claims the company’s mishandling of the Covid-19 vaccination program and their “mistreatment” during the pandemic as the driver for the move.
