Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – Kaleida Health and unionized healthcare workers were able to avoid a strike after an early-morning deal was reached Tuesday.
The three-year, tentative deal was reached at 4 a.m., just two hours before workers were to begin voting on whether or not to strike. Negotiations had been going on since March with multiple short-term extensions being signed since then.
“We got to a point [Monday] where we realized that we really did have a framework for an agreement,” said CWA Area Director Debbie Hayes in an interview with Brian Mazurowski and Susan Rose Tuesday morning. “There are times that once you realize you have the framework, there’s a lot of details and back-and-forth that have to be accomplished.”…