HAZARD, Ky. (AP) - Negotiators reached a tentative, three-year
contract agreement between Appalachian Regional Healthcare and the
United Steelworkers.
Joe Worthington is chief negotiator for A-R-H. He says the hospital believes it is a balanced contract.
About 2,400 employees are covered under the contract. Union officials are to give their members details of the tentative agreement and a vote is expected to follow.
Workers went on strike April 1 due to disagreements on wages and health care costs.
The steelworkers union represents about 60 percent of ARH's 4,600 employees in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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