Nurses OK Pact to End 13-Month Strike
The longest strike by nurses in California history ended when workers at two East Bay Area hospitals overwhelmingly approved a new labor contract with the nation’s second-largest hospital chain.
Ninety-eight percent of union nurses at Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo and Pinole voted to adopt the pact earlier this week, halting a 13-month walkout, during which many of the nurses took jobs at other Bay Area hospitals.
Leaders of the California Nurses Assn. said the agreement contained major concessions from Tenet Healthcare Corp.
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