The Nation - News from March 1, 1988
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More than 400 nurses, rebelling against mandatory overtime caused by a nationwide nurse shortage, went on strike at Brooklyn’s Lutheran Medical Center, but their union and the hospital resumed talks in a bid to work out a pact. As the nurses walked the picket line, hospital administrators and leaders of the Federation of Nurses met in the office of a federal mediator in lower Manhattan to try and reach an agreement. Talks broke off Sunday.
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