Allison Schaefers and Dave Segal
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Nurses at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children have voted to authorize a strike about six months into bargaining for a new contract in the midst of the .The Hawai‘i Nurses’ Association OPEIU Local 50, which represents the hospital’s nurses, said in a statement today that 93% of the nurses voted to authorize a strike, which they characterize as a show of the “high level of frustration among the nurses.”The union said an unprecedented 96% of the hospital’s 725 nurses showed up to vote over the three-day voting period, which ended at midnight Saturday.The union said nurses are now...…Nurses at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children have voted to authorize a strike about six months into bargaining for a new contract in the midst of the .The Hawai‘i Nurses’ Association OPEIU Local 50, which represents the hospital’s nurses, said in a statement today that 93% of the nurses voted to authorize a strike, which they characterize as a show of the “high level of frustration among the nurses.”The union said an unprecedented 96% of the hospital’s 725 nurses showed up to vote over the three-day voting period, which ended at midnight Saturday.The union said nurses are now...WW…