A USA Today reports that the hospital is being investigated by the Department of Health.
approximately 1,700 nurses at Washington Hospital Center, ratified a new contract, putting to bed one of the region’s most heated labor disputes.
WJLA is reporting this morning that a tentative agreement has been reached between Washington Hospital Center and a union representing its nurses, a deal which could bring an end to one of the region’s longest-running labor disputes.
Photo by Downing87 Nurses at the Washington Hospital Center voted Wednesday to hold a one-day strike in early March to protest staffing and wage cuts amidst lagging contract negotiations. The National Nurses United union, which represents the approximately 1,600 nurses at WHC, has been at loggerheads with the hospital over contract issues since last year. Threats of a strike aren’t new to the hospital. Last November, the nurses union threatened another one-day strike on…
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…
Nurses at Washington Hospital Center already decided to strike once this year due to the firing of 18 nurses who didn’t — or couldn’t, depending on your point of view — report to work during February’s snowstorms. After that incident, the nurses joined National Nurses United, the largest nurses union in the country. Now, word is that nurses at the hospital will strike yet again. According to a press release, NNU nurses who work at…
The Washington Hospital Center has fired 11 nurses and 5 other administrative staffers in the wake of back-to-back snowstorms that made it all but impossible for some employees to reach the hospital — which is no excuse for absenteeism. The Washington Post reports that dozens more could be fired for missing work on days when streets went unplowed and District officials asked people to stay off the roads. Let it serve as a lesson to…
Winston Delroy Dillon, left, and Vincent Lloyd Minto Montgomery County police say that one of two men currently wanted for murder in an Aug. 30 killing managed to walk out of Washington Hospital Center and is currently at-large. Winston Delroy Dillon, 39, left Washington Hospital Center on Wednesday before a warrant for his arrest could be served, according to police. Dillon was wearing a brace on his right leg due to a gunshot wound….
>> A man was hospitalized this morning after his Ford Expedition crashed into a Metrobus at 8th St. and Massachusetts Ave. NE. [WJLA] >> A 19-year-old Maryland woman got stuck in a two-story chimney about 12:20 a.m. Monday at her father’s tire shop on Bladensburg Road. Firefighters were able to rescue her to safety. [WaPo] >> D.C. police responded to a shooting at an apartment complex at 6420 14th St. NW just after noon…
Hilda Mason, 91, who served more than 20 years on the D.C. Council, died yesterday at Washington Hospital Center. The Post has an obituary up (which perhaps unsurprisingly but a little creepily appears to have been largely written some time ago, as it notes at the bottom that one of its authors passed away in 2006), which details Mason’s status as the grand dame of local D.C. politics, having served on the Board of Education,…
