Union representatives have been in contract negotiations with Ascension since May
“The nurses had been set to have a two-day strike, aiming to create that urgency around negotiations, because their employer was refusing to engage deeply on issues around pay and staffing,” said John Fitzgerald, a staff specialist with the Illinois Nurses Association and the union’s lead negotiator.
“Ascension Saint Joseph — Joliet would prefer not to have to utilize these extended contracted services, particularly given the current challenges the health care industry, including our ministry, is facing, but we must make every provision for ensuring the health and safety of our patients, families, providers and associates,” Ascension said in the news release.
Negotiations are currently stalled on proposed wage increases in the new contract. Ascension suggested an 18% raise for nurses in their first six years of work, declining to a 12% increase for those who had worked for 17 to 21 years. Of the 350 nurses who have left St. Joseph in the last five years, 120 worked in the ICU, Johnson said. They were replaced mostly with nurses from private agencies, forcing Johnson and other union nurses to become teachers on their own time.
“A nurse cannot, does not, have enough time during his or her day to adequately monitor these patients because he or she has too many,” Johnson said.
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