By Maria Hickey, KWMU
St. Louis – Not all nurses at St. John's Mercy Medical Center are willing to walk the picket lines if the union goes on strike Wednesday morning.
Union members voted last month to authorize a strike if a contract dispute with the hospital was not resolved.
Laura Kuensting is with a group called "Nurses for Nurses" that opposes both the union and the threatened strike.
Kuensting says the nurses on duty Wednesday morning when the strike deadline expires will have a tough decision to make.
"It's quite another thing to be the nurse who's going to be standing there at that bedside tomorrow morning at five a.m., taking care of someone who is really hurt or sick and walking away," Kuesting said.
She said only about a dozen nurses belong to the opposition group, but she expects many nurses to stay on the job in the face of a walk-out.