Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children brought in several hundred temporary nurses Sunday to fill nursing jobs after unionized nurses walked off the job and hit the picket line to start a weeklong strike the first Hawaii Nurses Association strike in about a half-century at the hospital.
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The strike comes after months of failed contract negotiations since mid- September, primarily over the union’s demand for staffing ratios that set a maximum number of patients a nurse can care for during a work shift.