Mass General Brigham residents, trainees at odds with leadership over working conditions, union push

Residents, interns and fellows working at Mass General Brigham hospitals say they're facing burnout, low salaries, challenging working conditions and more. In response, they are seeking to unionize, but hospital leadership appear to be doing everything in their power to discourage the move. Dr. Sascha Murillo, internal medicine resident at Mass General Hospital is behind the unionization effort. She and Ruthzee Louijeune, Boston city councilor at-large spoke with Sue O'Connell about the challenges healthcare workers are facing and why unionizing is important.

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BEFORE THE MERGER MASS GEN WAS A UNION HOSPITAL AND BRIGHAM WAS NON UNION . THAT IS WHY I WENT TO MASS GENERAL

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Face it, Mass General is owned by a hedge fund, that's all Harvard is, it's not an institution for higher learning it's a place where the kid with the most money gets the slot and gets rubber stamped. In Harvard's eyes employees are expendable and it counts on the doctors and nurses compassion for patients to keep them in place. The one thing I see, Mass General is not alone, Yale, CHOP, Cornell, all the same.

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I think residency was torture for me. I would have died. Please unions I don’t think residents should be working >40 hours a week. Cry 😭

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UNIONS ARE DYING BECAUSE THE COLLEGE PROFESSORS ALWAYS TALK BAD ABOUT UNIONS FACT !!!

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SO TIRED OF THIS GENERATION ALWAYS COMPLAINING, JUST DO YOUR WORK AND SHUT UP . THEY WANT EVERYTHING GIVING TO THEM OMG GROW UP