Nurses,
nursing assistants, mental health technicians, and unit assistants are planning
to engage in "informational" picketing at Eagleville Hospital on June
21.
Eagleville
Hospital in Montgomery County specializes in treating patients with substance
abuse disorders. The nurses and professional staff at the 334-bed medical
center are members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses & Allied
Professionals (PASNAP).
The
union is conducting the informational picketing to protest what they describe
as “unfair wage and benefit structures," understaffing and unsafe work
conditions. According to PASNAP, nurses are technicians are being asked to
accept a benefit structure that would freeze some employees’ wages for the entire
length of their contract.
In
the most recent financial report on psychiatric care hospitals issued by the
Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, Eagleville Hospital posted a
net income of $5.8 million on revenues of $38.6 million in fiscal 2014.
Eagleville
Hospital officials were not immediately available for comment.
PASNAP,
which represents about 8,000 hospital workers in Pennsylvania, earlier this
year added four hospitals to
its roster of Philadelphia-area medical centers with employees who are part of
the union.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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