Service and maintenance personnel at North Providence, R.I.-based Our Lady of Fatima Hospital voted on Tuesday to join the United Nurses & Allied Professionals, according to The Providence Journal.
Roughly 300 workers voted over the span of multiple hospital shifts.
The UNAP is a regional healthcare union representing almost 6,500 nurses, technologists, therapists, support staff and other health care workers employed in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont.
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