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The 1976 Seattle nurses strike was a labor dispute between registered nurses represented by the Washington State Nurses Association and Seattle, Washington-area hospitals. More than 1,500 nurses went on strike for more than two months at 15 hospitals. Lasting 65 days, it was the longest nurses strike in U.S. history to that point. The strike was intersected with the feminist movement as many of the younger, university-educated nurses and largely female nurses rejected being yelled at by doctors and other issues of workplace harassment on top of other concerns about wages, staffing and the closed shop.

References

1. "The 1970s: First strike". WSNA.
2. "One Nurses' Strike Ends, Another Goes On in Seattle". The New York Times. September 2, 1976.
3. Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s. Verso Books. November 2010. p. 23-24. ISBN 978-1-84467-174-8.

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