Striking Ascension nurses: (back row, l-r) Monica Gonzalez, Matthew Clark, Samantha Steele; (front row, l-r) Lindsay Spinney, Taylor Critendon (photo by Jana Birchum) Last Thursday, 900 unionized nurses at Ascension Seton announced a one-day strike for June 27, intentionally allowing enough time for Ascension to hire temp nurses to fill in. Ascension management responded by informing nurses that they would be locked out for an additional three days after the strike. National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU), Seton's union, says this is a "deliberate ploy to intimidate nurses from speaking out and demanding action on the conditions they decided to strike over.

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