Nurses at Crozer-Chester Medical Center voted
overwhelmingly to approve a new four-year contract Monday.
The Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied
Professionals (PASNAP), which represents 550 nurses at the Upland, Pa,
hospital, said 90 percent of its members voted in favor of the contract,
The Delaware County hospital nurses’ previous contract expired
June 8, 2014.
They staged what was planned as a two-day strike in
September to protest the lack of a new deal. It grew into a five-day strike
after the hospital brought in temporary replacement workers.
PASNAP officials said the new contract requires nurses to
work “a couple more years” before reaching the top of the wage scale, but the
scale itself remains intact with a range from $33 per hour for first year
nurses to $55 per hour for those nurses with 28 years of experience.
This year, nurses will either advance on the
experience-based wage scale or receive a 1 percent lump sum bonus if they are
not due a step raise. In the second year of the contract, nurses receive a step
raise or a 1 percent base rate increase, whichever is greater; in the third
year, a step raise or 1.5 percent increase in the base rate; and in the fourth
year a step raise or a 2 percent increase in the base rate.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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