Strike Notification
The Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), the union that represents Home Care clinicians, has notified Mass General Brigham of its plan to hold a seven-day strike beginning Wednesday, July 8.
Please be assured that everyone is focused on providing you and your loved ones with the care they expect. We are prepared with a plan to provide high-quality, safe care to patients if a strike takes place.
This means that the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), which represents Home Care clinicians, has provided Mass General Brigham with notice of their intent to hold a strike beginning Wednesday, July 8. We have comprehensive emergency preparedness plans that we will implement to ensure high-quality, safe patient care. This includes bringing on temporary, highly-qualified clinicians that will be ready to begin work to ensure continuity of care for our patients.
The work stoppage is expected to last for seven days, beginning July 8.
Home Care leaders will coordinate directly with referring providers to maintain continuity of services. We will triage patients to ensure the most acute needs continue by these temporary clinicians. Some ancillary services, such as dietician and speech language therapy appointments, will be paused.
If there are any changes to your scheduled appointment, care teams will contact you directly.
To date, we’ve held 29 negotiation sessions and reached more than 20 tentative agreements on several key provisions. We have also proposed changes on overtime, enhanced on-call territory pay, and wages, including new or improved pay scales. We believe our offer recognizes the essential contributions of our Home Care clinicians as valued members of our care teams, offering highly competitive pay that maintains their position at the top of the local market.
