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 nurses declared a one-day strike over higher wages, nurses are expressing concern as they walk off the picket line still without a contract.
“It’s exciting, but also frightening,” said Christine Forgeron, a cardiac nurse at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “I don’t know what to expect when we go back to our patients, what happens next, because we still don’t have a contract is the most unsettling part.”…