The strike by hundreds of nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts entered its 7th week on Monday. It comes after two years of contract negotiations between Massachusetts Nurses Association and Dallas-based, Tenet Healthcare. Staffing is said to be the main area of contention.
On the organizing front, 613 residents and fellow physicians at UMass Medical School voted to join the SEIU’s Committee of Interns and Residents last month.
This article from JD Supra proposes that micro units are an inevitable reality again with Biden’s NLRB. If that does prove to be true, it’ll be much like it was before the NLRB overruled Speciality Healthcare in 2017, which is to say, hospitals and healthcare employers beware.
