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  St. Vincent's Strike
 
  • Research explains why mandatory OT is not OK
  • Local News Coverage
  • Community Letters to The Editor and to Tenet
  • MNA Press Releases
  • Creative Contributions from the RNs on the Line


  • Letters to the Editors...


    Letters to Tenet Healthcare, owners of St. Vincent's Hospital



    Local Press Coverage



    News from Pre-Strike to May...



    MNA Press Releases


    Creative Contributions From the RNs on the Line:
    Lessons from the picket line

    * Picket Line Food can be very fattening.

    * Dr. Carroll has a heart of gold.

    * Worcester firefighters and police officers are wonderful and very giving humanitarians who welcome the chance to help those in need. 

    *Fallon Docs live in fear for their jobs.

    * D'erricos makes an awesome vegetable soup.

    * You'll never forget the people you picket with.

    * True friends and professionals will acknowledge those they know despite being on the opposite side of an argument.

    * Sometimes you need to stand up for what you know is right no matter how hard it is.

    * There are plenty of opportunities to nurse if Money is your driving force and you don't care about people.

    * Nurses who work mainly for financial gains are not good patient advocates. They are too selfish.

    * Dr. Day is the bravest Doctor St. V's/WMC has.

    * Dr. Jaffee is a kind and caring human being.

    * If you're a nurse at HEART you can't be bought. You remain a patient advocate despite the financial effect on you.

    * There is comfort in solidarity.

    * Worcester Police officers have the warmest gloves.

    * Worc. Police officers make sure their men all get breaks.

    * There's lot's of parking behind the Central St. fire station.

    * Nurses and Teamsters have very different ideas about how to picket.

    * Donna M is a great T Shirt sales person.

    * Marlena's grandmother has a lot of stamina and cold tolerance for an 80 y/o.

    * Positive messages like,"I support the nurses" are much more powerful than negativity and the use of the word "Scab."

    * Tenet was originally a film making company in Hollywood. 

    * Those who want others to take Ethics classes tend not to be Ethical themselves.

    * The driveway at the Summer St. entrance needs to be fixed because most cars bottom out and scrape the pavement as the enter. 

    * The signage at WMC is not adequate. Patients all go to the loading Dock looking for the ER. There is no Exit sign at the Summer St. exit, so everyone tries to enter there. The DO NOT ENTER signs cannot be seen until you've already entered.

    * Plastic Ponchos do not make good trash bags. The trash falls out the hood and arm slits.

    * "Sister Mary" is a very charitable woman.

    * Firefighters at the Providence St. station don't keep soap in their bathroom.

    * The Ambulance (ER) entrance should not be located next to the Centrum. Traffic gets bottle necked when concerts get out and ambulance entry will be
    delayed.

    * A school bus with children holding signs to the windows that say "I support the nurses" can raise the temperature 20 degrees on the coldest of days.

    * Tenet's pocket really are lined with gold.

    * Elderly Drivers have poor peripheral vision.

    * Any weather is possible in April in New England.

    * Picket signs should be waterproof.

    * If you spend enough time walking around downtown with a picket sign around your neck it starts to feel natural and you no longer feel silly. 

    * Worcester Police love VOLUNTARY overtime. 

    * Worcester really is a union town and the unity carries form one union to another.

    * Breezes are strongest at the "Golden Triangle."

    * The bathrooms in the Outlet Mall are at the wrong end on the building.


    The New Element...

    Investigators at a major research institution have discovered the heaviest element known to science. This startling  new discovery has been tentatively named Administratium  (Ad).

    This new element has no protons or electrons, thus having an atomic number of 0. It does, however, have 1 neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons, and 111 assistant vice neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

    These 312 particles are held together by a force called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

    Since it has no electrons, Administratium is inert. However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.  According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second.

    Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years; it does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons, vice neutrons, and assistant vice neutrons exchange places.

    In fact, an Administratium sample's mass will actually increase over time, since with each reorganization, some of the morons inevitably become neutrons, forming new isotopes.

    This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to speculate that  Administratium is formed whenever  morons reach a certain quantity in concentration.

    This hypothetical quantity is referred to as the "Critical Morass."
     
     

    For up to the minute information contact the St. Vincent's Strike Office at 508.792.2181, or call the MNA at 800.882.2056

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