New Orleans nurses extend strike through Super Bowl Sunday
By Gregory E. Williams
Nurses employed at the University Medical Center in New Orleans began striking on Feb. 5. Originally, the National Nurses Organizing Committee – the union representing 600 nurses in the UMC system and affiliated with National Nurses United – only planned on a two-day strike. But now it’s set to last through Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 9 because of contract requirements of the replacement-worker staffing agency.













