While still in contract negotiations, registered nurses at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Merrimack Valley in Methuen, Mass., voted 33 to 1 to authorize a one-day strike, the Massachusetts Nurses Association said in an NBC Boston report.
A date for the strike, which requires a 10-day notice to the hospital, has not yet been scheduled.
This is the first time the nurses at the healthcare system's Merrimack Valley location have negotiated a contract. The hospital opened in 2020, and registered nurses unionized there in mid-2022.
Nurses at the Merrimack Valley location are calling for pay and benefits equal to what the 600 nurses at the hospital's main campus in Boston have negotiated under a separate contract.
Negotiations have been ongoing for more than seven months, the news release said.