The countdown started just seconds before 6 a.m. Friday. "Three, two, one ... " hundreds of workers chanted in unison, then cheered and walked together toward the main entrance of Mercy Hospital in ...

Jamie Kaye, of Depew, a hospitality worker, near the main entrance of Mercy Hospital Monday on Abbott Road in South Buffalo. Diane Peach has worked in environmental services at Mercy Hospital in South ...

Strikes involving nurses at area hospitals have been rare in the past two decades – but a strike authorization approved Thursday night by Communication Workers of America members at Mercy Hospital has ...

Strikers walk along Choate Avenue outside of Mercy Hospital in South Buffalo. While a strike is underway at Mercy Hospital, the South Buffalo hospital remains open, with reduced services. Matt Glynn ...

Mercy Hospital of Buffalo was caring for less than half as many patients on Wednesday than it was one week earlier, before about 2,000 nurses, technical, service and clerical workers went on strike ...