About 1,600 nurses are protesting attempts to cut nurses’ pay as well as a lack of progress on resolving alleged patient safety problems and nursing standards, according to the report.
The hospital has contracted with a Colorado replacement-nurse company for the day of the strike and will pay the replacement nurses for an entire week of work.
Read the Washington Business Journal report on the Washington Hospital Center strike.
Read more coverage on Washington Hospital Center:
– Nurses at D.C.’s Washington Hospital Center Authorize Strike
– Nurses at D.C.’s Washington Hospital Center Cancel Strike
– Nurses at D.C.’s Washington Hospital Center to Strike
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