Emmc Nurses Reject Contract Vote Sets Stage for Possible Strike

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BANGOR - Nurses at Eastern Maine Medical Center on Friday overwhelmingly rejected what hospital officials have said was their final contract offer, setting the stage for a possible one-day nursing strike.

More than 80 percent of the voting nurses opted to reject the hospital's latest offer, according to information posted just after 10:30 p.m. on the Web site of the Maine State Nurses Association. More than 75 percent of the 870 members of the nursing union voted in the poll, held Thursday and Friday in Bangor.

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Emmc Nurses Reject Contract Vote Sets Stage for Possible Strike

Several representatives with Unit 1 of the Maine State Nurses Association declined to comment late Friday or to release the exact vote tally. Instead, they referred to a statem...

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