(Portland, OR) -- Nurses at eight Providence hospitals continue to strike after rejecting a contract that was approved by union leadership. The contract offered a 20 percent wage increase over three years. A typical full-time acute-care nurse would make around 150-thousand-dollars a year. They would have also received ratification bonuses of up to 10-thousand-dollars and a 25-hundred-dollar retention bonus after a year. The contract also included Oregon's new law that regulates nurse staffing levels. Hospitalists at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center approved their contract.