In late August 1975, I took a job at Preterm, an outpatient abortion and gynecology clinic in Brookline. Having searched for a job since my graduation from UMass-Boston four months previously, I felt very lucky to be working at all and particularly in a women's health clinic. I began as a receptionist, learned the...
Tag - strike
On June 7, 1974, 4,400 registered nurses struck 41 hospitals and clinics in the San Francisco Bay area. The RN's, all members of the California Nurses' Association (CNA), remained on the picket lines for 21 days. With the American Nurses' Association holding its annual national convention in San Francisco during the...