Nurses voted nearly unanimously Tuesday to authorize a one-day strike at Newton-Wellesley Hospital amid an ongoing contract dispute, their union said.
Ninety-nine percent of the roughly 1,500 registered nurses at the hospital approved a potential strike, the Massachusetts Nurses Association said in a statement.
“We are prepared to hold a one-day strike if necessary to stand strong against Mass General Brigham’s attempt to improve its profits on the backs of nurses,” registered nurse Nora Watts, a co-chair of the union’s bargaining committee, said in a statement…