Last week, we reported that unionized nurses at Washington Hospital Center had announced that they would strike for 24 hours on November 25. But Ben Fischer with the Washington Business Journal reports this afternoon that the strike has now been called off. According to an email sent to employees last night, hospital administration and National Nurses United — the union representing the nurses — have agreed to new wage rules which will go into effect in March. The hospital reportedly had a contingency plan in place which would have locked out the nurses for an entire week, a counter-move which appears to have driven the union back to the negotiating table.