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WASHINGTON—Jean Kitongo, an emergency room nurse at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., was out on a picket line on April 11 during a 24-hour forced strike there. She’s got a lot of company, for picketing and often for forced walkouts, coast to coast.
Workers from Howard University Hospital in D.C. began their strike over low wages and staffing challenges Monday.
D.C. hospital workers are planning to strike Monday over low wages at Howard University Hospital, which said that it has been “working diligently” to reach an agreement with the union.
President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the federal government will deploy military medical units to six states to assist hospitals overwhelmed with the recent spike of the omicron coronavirus variant.
D.C nurses plan to rally outside Howard University Hospital in Northwest Thursday. The union says staffing conditions have become unsafe.