The nurses and techs unionized last June and are still negotiating their first contracts.
The newly unionized nurses and techs at Temple Health's Fox Chase Cancer Center have escalated their threat of a strike this week.Nurses and technical staff at Temple Health’s Fox Chase Cancer Center voted Wednesday to start a five-day strike on June 4, following roughly eight months of unsuccessful negotiations with Temple for their first contracts since organizing as unions.
Ninety-four percent of the nurses and techs who participated in the vote favored declaring a strike, according to the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied, which represents the nurses and techs. PASNAP did not say how many union members voted.The nurses and techs are asking for increased staffing and higher wages, the union said. They also want to have more influence over hospital policies and procedures.
Temple has been negotiating separately with the two sets of unionized employees. PASNAP filed an unfair labor practices complaint with the National Labor Relations Board on March 6 alleging “But the workers say the negotiations haven’t progressed sufficiently since. “We’ve had enough of the disrespect,” palliative care nurse Maria Klinger-Gonzalez said in a statement.
Strike authorization votes are common during contract negotiations, and often do not lead to a strike.Hospital workers in the region last went on strike over Christmas, when nurses represented by PASNAP at two Prime Healthcare-owned hospitals
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