Northside Nurses Strike
092413 bl northside ... Northside Medical Center Registered Nurse Vicki Toth of Poland, left, a 34-year hospital employee, speaks to Krista Hawkins, an RN from Hanoverton, during Tuesday's one-day strike outside the hospital. Hawkins has been at the hospital only a year after graduating last year from Kent State University Salem campus.
092413 bl northside ... Youngstown native Francine Lawrence, Executive Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers, traveled to the picket line Tuesday morning to address nurses on the picket line outside Northside Medical Center. Members of the Ohio Nurses Association / Youngstown General Duty Nurses Association walked out at 7 a.m. Tuesday for a 12-hour work stoppage, hoping to urge further labor contract negotiations with hospital management.