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Nurses to Women & Infants Hospital: stop hiring scabs (‘travel nurses’)
An all day picket was held at Women & Infants Hospital yesterday to call attention to the problem of temporary, out-of-state “travel nurses” filling scheduling holes than hiring in-state nurses...
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1199 SEIU pickets for fair wages at Women & Infants
About 150 Women & Infants hospital staff and supporters engaged in an informational picket outside the hospital yesterday on icy sidewalks in a flurry of snow. The picket was held, says Patrick...
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Community speaks out to defend Memorial Hospital Birthing Center from closing
Ana Novais, Nicole Alexander-Scott, Kenny Alston At the third and probably last community meeting being held by the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) to discuss the potential closing of the...
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Employees demand safe staffing levels at Women & Infants
Carol Reuter has been a delivery room nurse at Women & Infants Hospital for 30 years. Dana Ciolfi, a technician, has worked at Women & Infants for 37 years. Neither can recall a time when the...
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Women & Infants employees move toward labor strike
There are labor pains at the modern day manger as employees of Women & Infants Hospital have overwhelmingly authorized a strike if a new contract can’t be hammered out between Care New England, the...
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Employees, management at Women & Infants reach tentative contract deal
After a tense week of contract negotiations that frequently lasted late into the night and early morning hours with a strike looming, Women & Infants employees and Care New England management have...
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