Temple University Hospital nurses and allied-health professionals ratified new contracts Thursday that include cost-of-living and experience-based wage increases which boost pay to most employees by 9 percent to 10 percent over the three years of the agreement.
The contracts cover 1,100 registered nurses and 600 professional and technical employees at the North Philadelphia hospital.
Current benefit packages will continue unchanged.
The agreement was reached three months prior to the Sept. 30 expiration of the current deal, signed after a 28-day strike in 2010.
“This round of bargaining could not have been more different than what we saw four years ago,” said Jerry Silberman, chief negotiator for PASNAP.
Silberman said among the commitments made to nurses and professionals was paid time for education and training and increased nurse staffing levels.
Source: Philadelphia Business Journal
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