MNA: National Labor Relations Board Issues Complaint Against Tenet/St. Vincent Hospital for Numerous Violations of the Nurses Union Rights in Ongoing Effort to Silence Nurses and Prevent them from Addressing Dangerous Working/Patient Card Conditions
WORCESTER, Mass., April 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Labor Relations Board has issued a formal complaint against Tenet/St. Vincent Hospital for numerous violations of the nurses' union rights, validating what the nurses allege is an ongoing effort by the hospital administration to silence the nurses and prevent them from addressing unsafe working/patient care conditions at the Worcester-based facility. For a copy of the NLRB complaint, contact David Schildmeier at [email protected].
- Vincent Hospital for numerous violations of the nurses' union rights, validating what the nurses allege is an ongoing effort by the hospital administration to silence the nurses and prevent them from addressing unsafe working/patient care conditions at the Worcester-based facility.
- The complaint indicts the hospital for violations including:
A directive by Tenet to prevent MNA staff from visiting the hospital to meet with the nurses to enforce their contract and their union rights. - This executive who has no clinical background is responding to individual nurse concerns with a rubber stamp denial.
- Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.