Nearly 2,000 nurses from Queen’s West and Queen’s Punchbowl could go on strike at 7 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 13. “We are fully prepared for a strike if we need to,” said Christy Lashley, a Queen’s West ...

The Queen’s Medical Center and its nurses have reached a tentative agreement, averting a strike that was set to begin at 7 a.m. today, according to a statement from the Hawai ‘i Nurses’ Association.

COURTESY HNA Unionized nurses, in June 2024, held a “March on the Boss ” event to call for fair bargaining practices during negotiations with The Queen’s Health System. The union nurses at The Queen’s ...

Queen’s Chief Nursing Executive Linda Puu said despite 43 bargaining sessions with HNA, “we still do not have clarity on what the union truly wants.” She said nurses have been offered pay ...

A strike by union nurses at two Queen’s hospitals on Oahu was averted Monday after a tentative agreement on a new, three-year contract was reached during the early morning hours.

The hospital counters that its offer to HNA would make Queen’s nurses “the highest-paid in the state and among the highest in the nation.” Linda Puu, chief nursing executive for The Queen ...