McGovern, Warren to visit striking Saint Vincent nurses Friday
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Saint Vincent Hospital nurses have been on strike since March 8.
Two members of the Massachusetts delegation in Congress, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Jim McGovern, are scheduled to visit Friday with nurses who've been on strike at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester.
The planned visit comes five days into a strike by an 800-member bargaining unit of the Massachusetts Nurses Association at Saint Vincent, whose administration has been firm on proposed staffing ratios in negotiations with the union. Nurses walked off the job Monday following 18 months of negotiations.
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Warren and McGovern, both Democrats and the latter a longtime Worcester resident, are set to visit at 3 p.m., the nurses union said. A former member of Congress, Joe Kennedy III, is scheduled to visit at 11 a.m. Kenney's uncle, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, helped broker an end to a 49-day strike at Saint Vincent in 2000.
The striking nurses have been a common presence outside the hospital in recent weeks, especially since Monday, when they've walked around the hospital's perimeter downtown from early morning to late evening. The planned visits on Friday follow a visit to nurses by U.S. Sen. Ed Markey on Feb. 18, about a week after the union first voted to strike.
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