More than 4,400 nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are planning to head to the picket line on Wednesday in what could become the largest nurse strike in state history.
Nurses at the state’s second-largest hospital are planning a one-day strike starting at 7 a.m. on July 8, according to the Massachusetts Nurses Association. But the union added that hospital management plans to keep striking nurses off the job for several additional days.
More than 99% of members voted to authorize the strike in June following seven months of negotiations with hospital management, said Michael Shuley, a Brigham and Women’s Hospital nurse…