MASSACHUSETTS BUILDING TRADES PICKETING NORTH SHORE PHYSICIANS GROUP

[Omaha Steve]

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MASSACHUSETTS BUILDING TRADES PICKETING NORTH SHORE PHYSICIANS GROUP…the doctors are using scab contractors to build their new clinic in Beverly
Posted in Uncategorized by gangbox on the January 11, 2009

from the SALEM NEWS:

Union workers protesting doctors’ group

By Paul Leighton
Staff writer

January 09, 2009 05:24 am

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BEVERLY — Union workers have been standing with signs in front of the Cummings Center and handing out literature at doctors’ offices this week to protest what they say is the use of nonunion workers to build a medical office building in Danvers.

The Massachusetts Building Trades Council says they are targeting the North Shore Physicians Group because some of their doctors will occupy the new building. The doctors’ group has about 200 members with offices in 17 North Shore locations, including the Cummings Center.

The Trades Council sent out a press release saying, “These doctors have no problem sending ever-increasing medical bills to union health insurance plans and turning away patients without health insurance. But when it comes to the contractors building their own offices, it’s how low can you go and we don’t care if you have health insurance.”

North Shore Medical Center in Salem, which owns the North Shore Physicians Group, denied that the group is using nonunion workers. In fact, the medical center said in a press release that neither it nor the North Shore Physicians Group are developing the property.

The medical office building is being built next to the Massachusetts General North Shore Center for Outpatient Care, which is affiliated with North Shore Medical Center and its doctors’ group. But the office building is being constructed separately by a private developer and another doctors’ group, the press release said.

FULL story at link.