Healey Summons Mass General Brigham, Nurses to State House
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- Governor Maura Healey called Mass General Brigham and the striking nurses to the State House for a Wednesday late-afternoon meeting to broker a new contract, per the Massachusetts Nurses Association
- Mayor Michelle Wu helped arrange the meeting, according to the union, joining the governor's effort to intervene
- The strike is the largest nurses strike in Massachusetts history and the first ever at Brigham and Women's Hospital, with thousands of nurses and supporters rallying on Francis Street starting at 7 a.m.
- Nurses sported 'Union Strong' and 'Brigham Nurses United' shirts, shook cowbells, banged plastic buckets, and waved signs attacking management, including one reading 'Value Nurses Like You Value Your Bonu$e$'
Why it matters: The governor's personal intervention — with the Boston mayor also helping arrange the session — elevates a contract dispute into a statewide political event, putting public pressure on the state's largest health system to resolve a historic work stoppage that has never before hit Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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