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Negotiations between JNESO and Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono have come to a conclusion, and while a new contract has been ratified, the fight for nurses’ rights is far from over. After weeks of negotiation reaching back to the end of December, health care union JNESO, which represents the nurses of LVH-Pocono, was able to come to a new three-year contract agreement with the hospital on Feb. 11. AnnMarie Ruggiero, a registered nurse in the cardiovascular telemetry unit and president of LVH-Pocono’s JNESO chapter, noted that the dialogue between the union and LVHN officials had been “spirited,” with the nurses’ representatives fighting to secure a wealth of proposals made all the more necessary during the COVID-19 pandemic. ....