{"id":563136,"date":"2026-04-04T00:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:43:15","slug":"brattleboro-hospital-nurses-reach-tentative-agreement-to-avoid-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563136\/","title":{"rendered":"Brattleboro hospital, nurses reach tentative agreement to avoid strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Nurses and the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital have reached a tentative agreement to avoid a strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The president of the Brattleboro Federation of Nurses confirmed the agreement to WCAX News on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Details of the new contract were not immediately available. Wages, health insurance and paid time off were sticking points in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The unionized nurses voted last week to authorize a strike if a deal could not be reached. They kept delivering care as contract negotiations continued. They had set a Thursday deadline for the hospital to bring a new proposal to the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Brattleboro Federation of Nurses has 155 members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Nurses and the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital have reached a tentative agreement to avoid a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1990,249327,168328,15907,12530,97,252,253,1493,134,1929,46355,3,47814,64424,27076,34752],"class_list":{"0":"post-563136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-agreement","9":"tag-averted","10":"tag-brattleboro","11":"tag-care","12":"tag-deal","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-health-care","15":"tag-healthcare","16":"tag-hospital","17":"tag-jobs","18":"tag-labor","19":"tag-memorial","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nurses","22":"tag-strike","23":"tag-vermont","24":"tag-wcax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}