The three-month strike at Butler Hospital that forced the closure of roughly half of the psychiatric hospital’s beds ended as workers voted “overwhelmingly” on Monday to ratify a new contract. Butler Hospital and the Service Employees International Union 1199 New England announced the settlement Monday night in a joint statement. “This contract ends the strike […]
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Butler Hospital could struggle to hire permanent replacements for striking nurses and other health care workers
Butler Hospital has raised the stakes in its standoff with unionized employees, announcing plans to hire permanent replacements for about 800 workers in their third week of a strike. But filling all those open positions with permanent hires at the psychiatric hospital on Providence’s East Side will be tough, labor experts said, given hospital staffing […]
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Butler Hospital’s striking workers and management resume talks with federal mediators
Editor’s note: This story was updated Thursday, May 29, with the latest information. Butler Hospital and union negotiators are scheduled to return to the bargaining table with federal mediators Thursday as the two sides try to end a strike at the psychiatric hospital that has stretched into its second week. Union officials said that after […]
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Butler Hospital to cut off striking workers’ health benefits
Hundreds of striking workers at Butler Hospital, on Providence’s East Side, received notices that their health benefits will be terminated at the end of the month. The psychiatric hospital operated by Care New England said in a May 16 letter to nurses, mental health workers and other staff who are members of the SEIU1199 New […]
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Butler Hospital’s unionized employees set to strike over workplace safety and wages
Butler Hospital’s unionized nurses, mental health workers and other staff are expected to walk off their jobs at 6 a.m. on Thursday, as temporary agency staff prepare to step in to keep the psychiatric hospital on Providence’s East Side running. Butler Hospital will remain open, and provide “safe, compassionate, and uninterrupted care” during the strike, […]
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Starbucks baristas’ ‘strike before Christmas’ has reached hundreds of U.S. stores
Starbucks’ union says workers are walking off the job at some 300 — out of over 10,000 — stores across the U.S. as contract negotiations falter. The company urges it to return to the bargaining table.
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Workers at Providence nursing home return to their jobs after three-day strike.
The union representing about 100 nursing assistants, maintenance workers and other staff at Bannister Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Providence began a three-day strike on Friday over demands for mandatory minimum staffing levels and pay increases.
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Connecticut Nursing Home Workers Renew Strike Threat
A labor union representing workers at Connecticut nursing homes is renewing a strike threat. Union officials representing more than 2,000 nursing home workers had walked back a May 1 strike date after Governor Ned Lamont pledged to work with them on raises.But a proposed budget released by the legislature’s Appropriations Committee this week changed the […]
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Stop & Shop Strike Brings More Business To Other Grocers
It’s been a week since 31,000 Stop & Shop employees went on strike in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Most of the store’s regular customers are buying their food elsewhere — either to support the strikers, or to avoid the awkwardness of crossing a picket line.
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Stop & Shop Workers Strike In Three New England States
Workers clustered together at the two entrances to the Stop & Shop store in East Hartford, holding signs in the air and chanting, “Better contract, better lives. Better contract, better lives!”The store’s employees were among unionized workers at Stop & Shop stores across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island who walked off the job Thursday, after […]
