Nurses strike looms at New York Hospital Queens in Flushing

[billyoc]

A Queens hospital could soon be facing a strike by more than 700 of its registered nurses after a new round of contract talks hit an impasse, the Daily News has learned.

New York Hospital Queens in Flushing and 722 of its registered nurses returned to the bargaining table April 22, following a cooling-off period that elected officials brokered in February to avert a planned three-day strike.

But the latest round of talks appear to have broken off after a committee of nurses - whose contract expired Oct. 31 - walked out of a bargaining meeting Friday.

"The committee was just disgusted," said Clare Thompson, who is leading the negotiations for the nurses' union, 1199 SEIU.

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