[2]National Nurses United




For over 100 days, hundreds of nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in
Massachusetts have been striking for safe staffing levels — a critical
policy that sets limits on how many patients one nurse can care for. 

Even though safe staffing ratios are proven to protect nurses, patients,
and the community, Tenet Healthcare (the owner of the hospital and
notorious healthcare profiteer with nearly 600 facilities nationwide),
just announced that it will begin hiring permanent replacements for the
striking nurses instead of meeting their demands.  

This cannot
stand.

Tenet knows this fight is bigger than one hospital. The brave nurses at
St. Vincent Hospital are challenging Tenet's profit-driven, dangerous, and
exploitative business model — a model that simply would not be possible in
a Medicare for All system.

Medicare for All would put an end to profit-driven, dangerous, and
exploitative actions like those by Tenet. Instead, federal
nurse-to-patient ratios would be ensured across the country by law, and
hospitals would not be able to pocket billions of dollars by putting
nurses and patients at risk.

We cannot allow Tenet to ignore these brave nurses, and today, they need
our support now more than ever.

[ [link removed] ]Join us tomorrow (Tuesday) June 29th, at 5:00pm PT / 8:00pm ET for a
virtual National Solidarity Emergency Town Hall with leaders from the
Massachusetts Nurses Association and Labor Campaign for Single Payer.

You'll hear from nurses on the picket line and learn how you can help
#TakeOnTenet in your community. You’ll even hear from our very own Deborah
Burger, President of NNU, who will be speaking about the importance of
showing solidarity across the country for these nurses. [ [link removed] ]Register and
show your support for the nurses of St. Vincent today.

[ [link removed] ]REGISTER »

It takes a lot of courage to do what the St. Vincent’s Hospital nurses are
doing — and tomorrow’s virtual town hall is an opportunity to show them
that we have their back.

[ [link removed] ]Join us tomorrow and let’s #TakeOnTenet together!

Jasmine Ruddy
Organizer
Nurses' Campaign for Medicare for All



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