The latest charge stems from an initial information request sent to Steward on May 19.

(Most recent data reported by Steward to CHIA for the first nine months of 2015.) The Steward system reported a $131 million operating profit for the same period. Steward’s alleged illegal effort to stonewall the negotiations with the Methuen nurses by withholding requested information necessary for bargaining comes at a time when the combined Holy Family Hospital Haverhill and Methuen campuses posted profits of more than $17 million and a profit margin of 8 percent, which is double the state average of 4% for the state’s acute care hospitals according the latest official reports filed with the state’s Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA). The charge filed by the nurses at the Holy Family Hospital in Methuen follows two earlier charges filed by the nurses at Holy Family Hospital in Haverhill, who are currently locked in a struggle to negotiate their union contract, an effort that has drawn widespread support from the community including the Haverhill City Council, a number of Essex County legislators, and a growing list of community leaders and residents who have sent letters and signed petitions in support of the nurses. METHUEN, MA – In response to what has become a recurring pattern of unlawful bargaining practices by Steward Health Care, the registered nurses, who are represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association at Steward Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, filed an unfair labor practice charge this week with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over the hospital’s continued failure and refusal to provide legally required information that the nurses need to begin bargaining a new union contract. News & Events Holy Family Hospital Nurses in Methuen File Yet Another Federal Unfair Labor Practice Charge with the National Labor Relations Board Against Steward Health Care Safe Patient Limits in MA Hospitals vs CA Hospitals.

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