https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/30/stanford-packard-nurses-to-end-strike-with-tentative-contract-agreement/ > Thousands of nurses are set to stop striking after reaching a tentative agreement late Friday for a new contract with Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. > After days of negotiations, the nurses union announced it had secured a 7% wage increase this year, along with a 5% increase effective at the start of next April, another increase effective in April 2024 and large increases to nurses’ retirement benefits. The union’s membership still needs to vote through the weekend on whether to approve the agreement.