East Liverpool nurses call off strike

Staff report

EAST LIVERPOOL

Although nurses have called off a strike they had threatened for midnight today against East Liverpool City Hospital, the labor dispute lingers, with both sides having lodged unfair labor practice charges against each other.

Calling the hospital’s actions during negotiations “illegal,” Mary Kay Hoppel, president of the 133-member East Liverpool Nurses Association, said the nurses had canceled their scheduled Friday contract vote because of what she called the hospital’s “illegal proposal.”

The hospital said the union declined a management offer to present the hospital’s contract proposal during joint informational meetings with presentations to the union members by both management and labor.

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