Burbank Hospital Nurses to Vote on New Contract
On Wednesday, nurses and other caregivers at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank will vote on a deal union negotiators reached with the hospital last week. The union, Service Employees Internation Union, is pretty vague about what the deal entails, at least until after their members vote. They do say it would grant 1,500 workers at the hospital "their first ever wage scale system," and that it would ban subcontracting and provide wage increases.
The union narrowly avoided a strike at the hospital back on June 13. The proposed contract would go through September 2011, so presumably there would be no near-miss strikes until that time. But then again, you might not want to count on that. Unions and hospitals aren't exactly getting along these days.