Three-day strike at Swedish Edmonds starts

Starting at 7 a.m. Tuesday, nurses and caregivers at Swedish Edmonds are expected to leave their posts and form a picket line, as fill-in health care workers take over for the duration of a three-day strike. The Edmonds employees are part of nearly 8,000 workers expected to strike this week across each Swedish campus. The health care provider is spending at least $11 million on thousands of replacement workers for the strike, which ends Friday at 7:30 a.m, CEO Guy Hudson said.