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More than 4,000 Nurses Go on Strike in Boston, the Largest Nursing Strike in Massachusetts History
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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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).
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Boston HeraldLargest-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.
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