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Thousands of nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston returned to work early Monday morning, marking an end to the largest nurses strike in Massachusetts history. But five days after 4,000 ...

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Over 4,000 unionized nurses and home care professionals at Brigham and Women’s Hospital plan to strike on Wednesday after dozens of unsuccessful negotiation sessions dating back to November 2025. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two Massachusetts hikers were rescued during separate incidents in the White Mountains on Saturday, according to the New Hampshire ...

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BOSTON — Governor Maura Healey has summoned the state’s largest health system and its striking nurses to the State House on Wednesday in an attempt to broker a new contract, according to the ...

The Massachusetts Department of Corrections just opened a new minimum security women’s facility, the only one in the state, to help inmates transition back into the community. But the windows of the ...

Roughly 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston walked to the picket line early Wednesday morning in what the union says is the largest nurses strike in Massachusetts history. Nurses at ...

After a breakdown in negotiations over pay raises and staff safety, nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital go on strike. (undefined, John Tlumacki) After staging the largest strike of nurses in the ...

About 4,000 unionized nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are slated to walk off the job Wednesday in what would be the largest nurses strike in Massachusetts history. The threatened strike follows ...