Thanks very much. >> Thank you.
>> On the picket line, hundreds of nurses at
Meriter Hospital in Madison went out on strike Tuesday.
Negotiations resumed Thursday and Friday. Even in
the midst of picketing. >> Union union. Mighty,
mighty union. >> In the hospital's first
ever strike, the nurses called for a wage hike
higher than the 3.68% offered better security and
better patient to staff ratios. Meriter says
throughout the strike, the hospital has remained fully
operational and is running smoothly with the hiring of
travel nurses. SEIU represents nearly 1000
nurses at the hospital. The union filed an unfair labor
practices complaint against Meriter over threats to
strip striking nurses of benefits.
>> There's a lot of people rallying around health care
workers, especially after Covid, and we are finally
standing up for ourselves and fighting for what we
need and deserve. >> We just want what's best.
We love what we do, and we're here trying to