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Hundreds Join Picket Outside Quincy Medical Center Nurses To Protest the Hospital’s Refusal to Negotiate a New Union Contract
Non-Profit Acute Care Hospital Conversion
First enacted in 2000,
TV Interview with NNU President Karen Higgins
Quincy Medical Center Nurses Conduct Informational Picket on April 13 To Protest the Hospital’s Refusal to Negotiate a New Union Contract After Management Prematurely Called Off Talks and Implemented Its Last Offer
Nurses outraged by unilateral imposition of 3% wage cut, 5% increase in health insurance costs & pension freeze, as well as the hospital’s refusal to address the nurse’s call for… Read more »
Quake-hit Haitians leave tent cities for camp
Three Months Later, Haiti’s New Normal
Three Months Later, Haiti’s New NormalPublished: April 11, 2010 Three writers look at life in Haiti as the slow recovery from January’s earthquake continues. The Graffiti Prophet of Bois Verna… Read more »
Amnesty: U.S. Guilty Of Katrina-Related Abuses
The state’s great health care standoff
By Scot Lehigh | April 9, 2010 UNEASE IS in the saddle in the state’s health care sector, and chaos looms on the horizon. Exasperated with spiking small business health… Read more »
Baker increases fire on health
He had passed up chance to blast rate-cap ideas By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff | April 8, 2010 GOP gubernatorial candidate Charles D. Baker has come out strongly against Governor… Read more »
Short-term customers boosting health costs
Lesson for US overhaul in gaming of Mass. system By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff | April 4, 2010 Thousands of consumers are gaming Massachusetts’ 2006 health insurance law by buying… Read more »
