Over the weekend, members of National Nurses United, the union which represents approximately 1,700 nurses at Washington Hospital Center, ratified a new contract, putting to bed one of the region’s most heated labor disputes. News broke last week that nurses at the hospital were considering a deal.

According to the Washington Business Journal, the nurses appear to have come out on top in the negotiations. Under the new contract, nurses will “receive a base wage hike of between 8.5 and 9 percent over the next 3.5 years,” were granted concessions from management over wage bonuses for less desirable night and weekend shifts, and the union also secured reinstatement for eight nurses who were fired because they couldn’t make it to work during massive snowstorms in February 2010.