Alarcon midwifed a deal, nurses approved
It's a deal. Workers at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center have approved a four-year contract with the hospital. These are the workers who were about to go on strike on June 13, but they pulled back from the brink. On Thursday, hospital officials said Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon helped them and Service Employees International Union reach a deal. Here's our story in the Daily News:
BURBANK — Nurses and other workers at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center have approved a contract giving them a 5.25 percent pay rise in the next year, a hospital spokesman said Thursday. The four-year contract approved Wednesday also includes a wage scale based on experience and also bans subcontracting for services, spokesman Dan Boyle said. Officials credited Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon with helping to avert a threatened strike by the 1,500 nurses and other workers represented by the Service Employees International Union.