Vol.62/No.17           May 4, 1998 
 
 
N.Y. nurses vote accept contract  
Nurses at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, ended a three-week strike and approved a contract April 21. Nurses were protesting company moves to cut health benefits, rotate nurses from department to department, and impose changes in work schedules. The contract maintains the nurses' current health benefits, but allows the hospital to change many work schedules. Maimonides hired scab nurses during the strike, offering them 25-45 percent beefed up salaries to keep the hospital running. The strike drew support from other unions around the city. At the same time, hundreds of workers and neighborhood residents have rallied to protest major layoffs at Harlem Hospital.  
 
 
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