MNA Nurses Prepare for End of Brigham Strike and Noon Rally with Senator Markey Thursday, as MGB Home Care Clinicians Continue 7-Day Strike
The Massachusetts Nurses Association says the hospital’s proposal would raise premium costs for more than half of its members.
- On Wednesday, July 8, 2026, roughly 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston began a one-day strike, marking the largest nurses strike in Massachusetts history after contract negotiations with Mass General Brigham stalled.
- Negotiations remain deadlocked over wages, with the Massachusetts Nurses Association reporting management refuses to move off a 0% cost-of-living increase proposal while MGB claims Brigham nurses already earn among the state's highest salaries.
- Although the strike lasts one day, MGB has locked out unionized nurses through the weekend because nearly 1,300 temporary nurses hired to maintain operations are contractually required to work five-day shifts.
- Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu urged both sides to continue bargaining, while a separate group of 450 MGB Home Care clinicians also launched a seven-day strike seeking their first union contract.
- Unless a settlement is reached sooner, striking nurses are scheduled to return to work at 7 a.m. on Monday, July 13, while MGB maintains that patient care will continue with limited disruptions.
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Salem News
Nurses end strike but remain 'locked out' of work
BOSTON — Thousands of unionized nurses at Mass General Brigham and Women's hospital ended their one-day strike Thursday but will still be "locked out" for several more days amid the stalled negotiations over a new contract.
Thousands of nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital began yesterday, July 8, the largest strike in Massachusetts history. More than 4,000 nurses took to picket lines at 7:00 a.m., along with about 450 MGB Home Care workers, who started a seven-day separate strike. Both groups are represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) and have been negotiating new contracts with Mass General Brigham (MGB) for months without reaching an agreeme…
Massachusetts nurses strike Mass General Brigham in largest healthcare walkout in state history
More than 4,500 nurses and clinicians walked off the job Wednesday morning at Mass General Brigham (MGB), the largest private hospital system in Massachusetts, in the largest strike of healthcare workers in the state’s history and the first by nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH).
Hanford Sentinel
Largest-ever nurses’ strike in Massachusetts begins, Healey convenes Brigham and Women’s management, union
Over 4,000 Brigham and Women’s Hospital nurses and MGB home care clinicians took to the picket lines Wednesday for what is expected to be a five-day work stoppage, making history as Massachusetts’ largest ever nurses’ strike. Nurses with the Massachusetts…
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MNA Nurses Prepare for End of Brigham Strike and Noon Rally with Senator Markey Thursday, as MGB Home Care Clinicians Continue 7-Day Strike
Brigham nurses and MGB Home Care clinicians have told the Governor and MGB they are prepared to negotiate until contract resolutions are reached
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