Overview
- The hospital says it will implement its contract proposals after more than 60 negotiating sessions without progress.
- The package includes wage increases up to 8.6% and an average 5.3% first-year raise for registered nurses, with annual increases thereafter.
- Sixty percent of nurses would have base pay above $100,000, alongside eligibility for overtime and holiday pay and a comprehensive benefits package.
- Staffing ratios match the expired contract, and a unit-based shared governance model is slated to give nurses a stronger voice in practice decisions.
- Teamsters Local 332 says roughly 750 nurses and case managers remain on strike and oppose the unilateral move, while the hospital says the new terms apply to current staff, new hires, and returning strikers and it will re-offer more than 40 declined RN jobs at higher pay.