About 500 nurses at Faulkner Hospital had been planning a 24-hour strike on Oct. 1.
Nurses at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain are no longer planning to strike after reaching a tentative contract agreement with Mass General Brigham leadership last Thursday.
The agreement includes raises of 25% to 33% over three years, depending on an employee’s current pay level, according to the Massachusetts Nurses Association. The union represents 500 Faulkner nurses. The agreement must still be ratified by a vote of all the MNA members at Faulkner.
“We are incredibly proud of this contract agreement that reflects our priority of improving BWFH nurse staffing and making sure all of our patients get the care they deserve,” Kathy Glennon, a Faulkner nurse and co-chair of the MNA Bargaining Committee, said in a statement. “Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital nurses care deeply about our patients and our hospital. We owe our success to the unity our nurses have shown throughout this bargaining process.”