{"id":837811,"date":"2026-06-01T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/837811\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:20:11","slug":"nurses-at-saint-mary-of-nazareth-hospital-plan-one-day-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/837811\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital plan one-day strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nurses at Chicago\u2019s Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital plan to hold a one-day strike on June 11, in protest of what they\u2019re saying is owner Prime Healthcare\u2019s \u201cretaliation\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/05\/27\/saint-mary-of-nazareth-nurses-union\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their attempts to unionize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The nurses filed their 10-day notice of the strike Monday. More than 400 registered nurses work at the Ukrainian Village hospital, according to the union.<\/p>\n<p>The notice came less than two weeks after the nurses filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold a union election. The nurses hope to be represented by the National Nurses Organizing Committee\/National Nurses United.<\/p>\n<p>A Prime spokesperson did not immediately provide comment late Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The nurses allege that several of their colleagues, who were leading the union campaign, were fired in the days after they filed their petition to hold a union election. The hospital told several nurses they were terminated partly for trespassing during their off hours, according to separation documents obtained by the Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatient care is our top concern and is at the forefront of our fight,\u201d said intensive care unit nurse Brenda Hern\u00e1ndez in a union news release. \u201cWe are striking because terminating experienced nurses has left the hospital short staffed. Nurses need a seat at the table to advocate for our patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nurses said they decided to seek unionization to advocate for themselves, protect patients and to have more of a voice at the hospital after Prime, a for-profit company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/03\/01\/ascension-completes-sale-of-9-illinois-hospitals-to-prime-healthcare-for-more-than-370-million\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bought Saint Mary and seven other Illinois hospitals<\/a> from nonprofit Ascension last year.<\/p>\n<p>Prime has previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/05\/20\/durbin-duckworth-question-prime-healthcare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">faced criticism<\/a> for changes it made at other Illinois hospitals that were part of the sale.<\/p>\n<p>Prime is based in California and has more than 50 hospitals across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nurses at Chicago\u2019s Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital plan to hold a one-day strike on June 11, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":837812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[166326,960,5386,1818,339668,244475,189629],"class_list":["post-837811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-ascension","tag-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-national-nurses-organizing-committee-national-nurses-united","tag-prime-healthcare","tag-saint-mary-of-nazareth-hospital"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116677419170553777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}