The University of Vermont Medical Center nurses’ union went on strike at 7 a.m. Thursday morning. According to union spokesperson Keith Brunner, nearly 1,300 nurses were signed up to picket over the course of the two-day strike.

Read more about the strike here, and read all our coverage of negotiations between the hospital and its nurses here.

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Nurses were up early to rally outside the hospital. Credit: Sara Tabin
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Outside UVM Medical Center’s campus in Colchester Credit: Sophie MacMillan
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Sara Tabin was a news intern at Seven Days during the summer of 2018. She was born in Burlington but later moved to Utah, where she interned at the Park Record in Park City. She is currently a senior at Yale University and a City Editor at the Yale Daily...