Here are three things to know about the picket.
1. The picket is scheduled to last five hours.
2. The nurses are protesting what they call “growing problems with safe staffing” and “wage theft.”
3. The picket comes as Cook County RNs have been working without a contract, according to National Nurses United. The RNs have been working without a contract since December 2012.
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