PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Last ditch efforts are being made to stop a nurses’ strike at two Rhode Island hospitals.
About 2,400 nurses and other health care workers at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital are scheduled to start a weeklong strike at 3 p.m. Monday.
But the union and hospital management are scheduled to meet Monday morning with a federal mediator to try to avert a strike.
The strike was set after the by Local 5098 of the United Nurses and Allied Professionals after it rejected a contract proposal by Lifespan, the operator of the hospitals.
Rhode Island Hospital is the only Level 1 trauma center in the state. Lifespan says it has hired temporary nurses and is prepared for any labor action.
