Nurses on strike from Wilcox Memorial Hospital began voting yesterday on the hospital’s latest contract offer that could end a 95-day strike, according to a Hawai‘i Nurses Association representative. About half of the 120 nurses on strike voted on the
Nurses on strike from Wilcox Memorial Hospital began voting yesterday on the hospital’s latest contract offer that could end a 95-day strike, according to a Hawai‘i Nurses Association representative.
About half of the 120 nurses on strike voted on the offer after meeting with negotiators at the Hawai‘i Government Employees Association hall, said D.Q. Jackson, a Wilcox nurse and a member of the union’s negotiating team.
The remaining nurses will vote today from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. A simple majority — 50 percent of the nurses plus one — will determine the fate of the proposal, Aggie Pigao Cadiz, HNA executive director, said earlier in the strike.
The union will present the results of the vote to Wilcox negotiators on Wednesday at 9 a.m.
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