Nurses are back at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, but the fight is not over

The historic nursing strike is over, but negotiations between the union and the hospital over wages and better workplace protections continue.

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After five days on the picket line, thousands of nurses returned to work at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Monday morning, bringing an end to the largest nursing strike and lockout in Massachusetts history.

About 4,000 nurses had walked off the job last Wednesday for a one-day strike that stretched into five as the hospital honored contracts with the roughly 1,300 temporary replacement nurses brought in to keep operations running…

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