After a nine-month strike, dozens of negotiating sessions and a day-long deliberation, nurses at Worcester's St. Vincent Hospital and the hospital's parent company, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, reached a tentative agreement on Friday — a peace treaty that nurses hope will set a higher bar for the treatment of essential workers across the country.
"The nursing field has been through so much in the last couple of years," nurse Dominique Muldoon told GBH News. "We went from being healthcare heroes, and then we struggled and started getting sick ourselves, and some of us even died during the pandemic. I would hope that some things, some attitudes change because of this strike."
