Tufts Medical Center Nurses Go On Strike

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Source: WBUR

Hundreds of nurses lined the sidewalks in front of Tufts Medical Center Wednesday in what the union says is the largest nursing strike in Massachusetts history.

It is also the first nurses strike in Boston in 30 years.

The strike began at 7 a.m. as night shift workers left their wards to form picket lines. Iron workers, builders, teachers, service employees and other union members joined the throng. Boston fire trucks, ambulances and random cars cheered them on.

The tone of the protest did not go over well inside the hospital, where a sober CEO, Dr. Michael Wagner, updated reporters.

Read more: http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/07/12/tufts-nurses-strike

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1. The REASON for the strike, which is the point, is buried.

The reason for the strike is buried near the end of the article:

"The union says there are three issues in dispute: wages, staffing and proposed pension changes. On wages, nurses say they are the lowest paid in Boston. Veteran nurses are frustrated by a pattern: New graduates find their first nursing job at Tufts Medical Center, they get a few years of training, then move on to one of the higher paying hospitals."