{"id":317293,"date":"2017-07-14T09:37:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tufts-medical-center-in-boston-locks-out-1200-nurses-after-one-day-strike\/"},"modified":"2017-07-14T09:37:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:37:44","slug":"tufts-medical-center-in-boston-locks-out-1200-nurses-after-one-day-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tufts-medical-center-in-boston-locks-out-1200-nurses-after-one-day-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Tufts Medical Center in Boston locks out 1,200 nurses after one-day strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Tufts Medical Center in Boston locks out 1,200 nurses after one-day strike<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    John Marion<br \/>\n    <br \/>14 July 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>At 7:00 a.m. on Thursday the Tufts Medical Center in Boston locked out some 1,200 nurses after they conducted a one-day strike Wednesday. Tufts University police stood at the entrances to the hospital, refusing to allow the nurses in even though they were seeking to return to work.<\/p>\n<p>Passing public transit bus drivers honked their horns in support of the nurses who picketed outside, and nurses from the Mass General, Brigham and Women\u2019s, and Newton-Wellesly Hospitals\u2014all part of the larger Partners Healthcare organization\u2014turned out in support. Last summer nearly 2,350 Brigham and Women\u2019s nurses voted to approve a walkout, but the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) brokered a deal with Mayor Marty Walsh\u2014a Democrat and former Building Trades union official\u2014to accept concessions and prevent a strike.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent Democrats, including US Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Stephen Lynch, are once again posturing as friends of nurses, showing up Thursday to serve coffee, muffins and pizza and hold a rally. The predicament nurses face\u2014understaffing, attacks on their wages, health benefits and pensions\u2014is largely the outcome of the Obama administration\u2019s attack on health care, which is now being accelerated by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The striking nurses will not be paid during the five-day lockout. Nonetheless, one told the <em>World Socialist Web Site,<\/em>\u201cWe\u2019re not backing down. We\u2019re too strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/538cab17-f2b3-4ba5-8cba-4abde22e02eH\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/538cab17-f2b3-4ba5-8cba-4abde22e02eH\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Striking nurses outside Tufts Medical Center in Boston<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Nurses at the Tufts Medical Center, who often work 16-hour double shifts without a chance to sit down or stretch, have been without a contract since April 2016. Their pay is often $8-$12 per hour lower than that of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/07\/14\/tuft-j14.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Tufts Medical Center in Boston locks out 1,200 nurses after one-day strike By John Marion 14 July 2017 At 7:00 a.m. on Thursday the Tufts Medical Center in Boston locked out some 1,200 nurses after they conducted a one-day strike Wednesday. Tufts University police stood at the entrances to the hospital, refusing to allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-317293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}