The clock is tick, tick, ticking as a potential nurses strike at Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin rapidly approaches.
The hospital’s nurses, members of the Health Professionals & Allied Employees Local 5138, gave a 10-day notice to the hospital’s parent company, Hackensack Meridian Health, that they would go on strike at 7 a.m. on Monday, June 9 if a new contract hadn’t been approved. Their contract had expired on April 30 and negotiations didn’t resume until May 29.
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