AM: Sacred Heart nurses unhappy

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center nurses wave at honking cars while waiting to march en masse around Riverfront Park Tuesday in a show of solidarity about their demands for better wages and working conditions. Officials from Sacred Heart and the Washington State Nurses Association have met 13 times since December, but they haven’t reached an agreement on a new contract for the union’s 1,787 Sacred Heart nurses. The main sticking points, nurses said, are chronically low staffing levels and diminishing benefits packages. More here (paywall). (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)

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