{"id":307968,"date":"2026-10-16T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307968\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:58:08","slug":"allegheny-general-hospital-nurses-vote-to-authorize-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307968\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegheny General Hospital nurses vote to authorize strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792159088_394_4a0a8774-983a-4c94-a3b0-d2630c50cec6_1653489233.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Raquel Ciampi\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Nurses at Allegheny General Hospital have voted to authorize a strike as they push for better staffing and staff retention.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The group of 1,500 nurses said they are treating more patients with serious illnesses. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">They also said the contract proposed by Allegheny Health Network increases their healthcare costs, cuts retirement benefits, and reduces time off.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The contract was originally supposed to expire at midnight on Oct. 13, but it was extended to end on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The nurses said they do not want to strike but if they vote to proceed, they will provide a 10-day notice to Allegheny Health Network to ensure patient safety.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Nurses will hold their informational picket on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 Nurses at Allegheny General Hospital have voted to authorize a strike as they push&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[126251,126252,894,35340,126256,126253,2123,126254,6954,107,126260,126258,49547,21297,126255,103,33404,73,75,74,118004,126259,126257,2957,126261,10254],"class_list":["post-307968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-agh-nurse-strike","tag-agh-nurses","tag-allegheny-county","tag-allegheny-general-hospital","tag-allegheny-general-hospital-nurse","tag-allegheny-general-hospital-strike","tag-allegheny-health-network","tag-authoritizing-strike","tag-contract","tag-group","tag-healthcare-cost","tag-more-patient","tag-nurse","tag-nurses","tag-nurses-at-agh","tag-oct","tag-patient-safety","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-retirement-benefit","tag-serious-illness","tag-staff-retention","tag-strike","tag-well-staffing","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}