On Thursday morning, nurses at St. Agnes Ascension Hospital will not report to work, instead they will be picketing outside demanding safer practices for staff and patients.
The strike will run from 7 a.m. Thursday to 7 a.m. Friday and is the culmination of 18 months of failed negotiations between the nurses’ union, National Nurses United (NNU), and management at the hospital.
The two parties have been at loggerheads for 18 months trying to hammer out a bargaining agreement…