BANGOR (AP) – Unionized nurses are being asked to consider a tentative contract agreement with Eastern Maine Medical Center management.

A spokeswoman said nurses have canceled a strike notice that threatened a 24-hour walkout beginning next Wednesday morning.

The Bangor Daily News said representatives from both sides were reserved about details in accordance with negotiating ground rules.

“We have a tentative agreement that we’re taking to our membership (Friday) and Saturday,” staff nurse Judy Brown, president of the hospital’s nursing union and a bargaining team member, said Thursday night.

“We did reach agreement in some of the (contract language) that was crucial to us. We’re going to recommend ratification,” Brown said.

EMMC officials issued a statement announcing the tentative agreement, which will be brought to the hospital’s board of trustees for ratification. The statement said no more details would be released until both sides accepted the contract.

“We look forward to a productive working relationship going forward,” the statement said.

The nurses’ most recent three-year contract expired at midnight Sept. 30.

EMMC’s nurses belong to the Maine State Nurses Association, Unit 1. The union has roughly 870 members, according to the Daily News.

Brown said the proposed agreement includes language about a professional practice committee that the nurses proposed. The makeup and authority of such a panel has been cited as a key sticking point in the contract talks, which at times have involved a federal mediator.

A 24-hour strike had been scheduled to start at 7 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17.

“We have rescinded that, pending ratification,” Brown said.

A notice on the Maine State Nurses Association Web site indicated that EMMC nurses would be briefed on details of the proposed deal before ratification voting.