Temple University’s unionized health care workers secured a new contract that made its nurses the highest paid in Pa., and lowered their patient load. The state’s other organized health care workers are now looking to replicate their playbook.
Temple University Hospital workers picketing outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center during contract negotiations for workers and technicians on Oct. 14, 2022.54 minutes ago
The new contract requires the hospital to add another nurse to a unit when certain patient census thresholds are exceeded. The hospital must give nurses significant additional pay if it can’t meet the staffing standards, and the standards can only be ignored if both hospital administration and a union representative agree a health emergency warrants it.
Today’s tight labor market likely helped Temple’s health care union at the bargaining table, said Rebecca Kolins Givan, an associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University. Nurses are in high demand, Givan said, and have no trouble finding other health care jobs to pay the bills if a contract dispute turns into a strike, as threatened at Temple.
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