Speaker Shekarchi Calls for Butler Hospital Management and Employees to 'Get Back to the Bargaining Table'

Speaker Shekarchi calls for Butler Hospital management and employees to 'get back to the bargaining table'

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — On the sixth day of striking at Butler Hospital, House Speaker Joseph Shekarchi is calling for the union and management to “get back to the bargaining table.” In a statement, Speaker Shekarchi said the strike is impacting the Rhode Island community, and hopes the two parties can “reach a fair deal in the very near future.” SEIU 1199 NE, the union representing over 800 members of the Butler Hospital staff, began an open-…

Striking Butler Hospital workers may lose health benefits after May 31 • Rhode Island Current

Striking Butler Hospital workers are shown outside the Providence hospital's Blackstone Boulevard entrance on Saturday, May 17, 2025, the third day of the strike. (Photo by Dominique Sindayiganza courtesy of SEIU 1199NE)As striking workers picketed outside Butler Hospital for the fifth day Monday, the Providence psychiatric hospital’s management announced that health insurance for employees not actively working will be terminated at the end of t…

Butler Hospital to terminate health benefits for employees on strike

A spokesperson with Butler Hospital announced all employees not actively working with have their health benefits terminated.

Providence, Rhode Island: Butler Hospital workers strike over wages, safe staffing and pensions

The strike, the first at the facility in 37 years, involves nurses, mental health workers, social workers, clerical, environmental service and dietary staff.

Butler Hospital to cut off striking workers’ health benefits

Hundreds of striking workers at Butler Hospital, on Providence’s East Side, received notices that their health benefits will be terminated at the end of the month. The psychiatric hospital operated by Care New England said in a May 16 letter to nurses, mental health workers and other staff who are members of the SEIU1199 New […] The post Butler Hospital to cut off striking workers’ health benefits appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio.