A strike by registered nurses at the Liberty Medical Center in Baltimore ended in a tentative settlement today after just 75 minutes of picketing outside the hospital, at 2600 Liberty Heights Ave.
Larry Grosser, a negotiator for 260 members of the Professional Staff Nurses Association at Liberty, said the walkout by about 80 nurses ended at 8:15 a.m. after bargainers reached agreement on a new two-year contract. The pact includes options to reopen talks on wages and pensions after one year.
Nurses at Liberty "are already the highest-paid in the city, so that [wages] was not an issue in this," Grosser said.