The video above is from a previous report
The Nursing Achievement Recognition Committee, which represents striking nurses, said the new contract, if approved by members, would give members a 7% pay rise this year. Negotiations also resulted in a 5% raise effective early next April, another increase effective April 2024, and significant increases to nurses’ retirement benefits.
PREVIOUS STORY: Thousands of Bay Area nurses go on strike over wages, bonuses and mental health services
Stanford Health Care tweeted a statement about the agreement saying in part: “Throughout the negotiations, the parties have continued to work in good faith and have now achieved our common goal of agreeing to contractual terms which we can be proud.”
Stanford Health Care, Stanford Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the Nursing Achievement Recognition Committee are pleased to announce a tentative agreement for new collective bargaining agreements. https://t.co/q9BYRvHWbW pic.twitter.com/sSyJBUwtOq
— Stanford Health Care (@StanfordHealth) April 30, 2022
/2 Throughout the negotiations, the parties continued to work in good faith and have now achieved our common goal of agreeing on contractual terms of which we can be proud.
— Stanford Health Care (@StanfordHealth) April 30, 2022
Union members still have to vote over the weekend on whether to approve the deal.
Hospitals have also guaranteed an additional week of pre-scheduled vacation for all nurses from 2024.
About 5,000 nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital went on strike Monday, with workers calling on Stanford management to improve working conditions and address staffing shortages.
VIDEO: From SF to Napa, here’s why Bay Area hospitals are experiencing crippling staffing shortages
The union said executives at Stanford Health Care and Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital failed to address low staff retention and high turnover rates and tried to pull health benefits from nurses on strike.
About 93% of nurses represented by CRONA voted to authorize the strike earlier this month after their contract with Stanford expired on March 31. The strike is CRONA’s first in more than two decades, according to the union.
Copyright 2022 by Bay City News, Inc. Republication, retransmission, or reuse without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited.