HONOLULU (KHON2) -- The fight for safe staffing ratios continues on Maui. Get Hawaii's latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You Maui County Council member Tamara Paltin introduced a resolution on Tuesday, Nov. 26, urging Maui Health to "negotiate in good faith" with healthcare workers on Maui and Lanai. Kapiolani Medical Center nurses vote on tentative contract agreement Paltin's resolution also calls for fair wages and working conditions, something the nurses' union has been fighting for since late October. This comes after a recent three-day strike, where roughly 900 members of the United Nurses and Health Care Employees of Hawaii walked out from Maui Memorial Medical Center, Kula Hospital and Lanai Community Hospital on Monday, Nov. 4. "Ratios that are grounded in a robust body of peer-reviewed evidence. Ratios that directly impact care quality, safety and overall health outcomes," said Josh Masslon, RN at Maui Memorial Medical Center. The strike line included nurses, pharmacists, administrative staff and more. "I have personally witnessed a very steady push for nurses to do more with less, a decline in standards our hospital once had. We are constantly working short-staffed, workplace violence against health care workers has become rampant, we're down one to four nurses, sometimes more in the emergency room," RN Jennifer Rosenblad added. In a statement, Maui Health emphasized they are "committed to reaching a fair and timely agreement and has bargained in good faith to reach over 25 tentative agreements." Maui Health adheres to safe, industry-standard, evidence-based staffing protocols that prioritize patient outcomes and safety. The “safe staffing ratios” that the union is proposing are already in place, as publicly acknowledged by union leaders themselves. The "variable staffing" model we propose was developed in partnership with union members, including nurses, and nurse leaders, and includes the staffing levels the union is requesting, as well as the implementation of a patient acuity tool to ensure staffing decisions are driven by real-time patient data including a patient’s condition and severity of illness and the experience and skill level of the nurse. Unfortunately, the union continues to demand that inflexible, fixed ratios be mandated as the sole determiner of staffing, which does not account for other factors critical to safe patient care. This kind of rigid staffing is not mandated in any hospital across Hawaii and works against the needs of our island healthcare system and the communities we serve. Maui Health System in a statement Check out more news from around Hawaii The next bargaining session is scheduled for Dec. 11, with other dates actively being sought out.