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| |  Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP
Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike
Philadelphia Business Journal - by John George Staff Writer The Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals held a rally outside Temple University Hospital Monday to protest what they are describing as the health system’s “bad faith approach” to contract negotiations.
The union, which represents 1,500 nurses and other workers at the North Philadelphia hospital, is threatening to hold a three-day strike starting Oct. 2 if a new contract is not reached by the time the current agreement expires Sept. 30
We have worked many hours at the bargaining table, but the hospital seems intent on ignoring the needs of patients and the dedicated staff here at Temple,” said Maureen May, president of the nurses’ union. “Nobody wants a strike, but we are concerned about the future of patient care and the retention of professional staff.”
Union officials said the health system wants to increase employee health-care costs and forgo its promise to cover dependents’ tuition at Temple University. PASNAP officials said staffing levels also remain a “serious concern.”...
...Temple said its nurses are paid “among the highest rates” in the Delaware Valley, making an average hourly rate of $39.80.”
It proposal for the next three years is for no increase in the first year, followed by 2 percent increases in each of the following two years. For allied health professionals, the offer is no increase this year, following by 2 percent increases in the second and third years and 2.5 percent in the fourth....
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Oct 15, 2009, 09:28 PM
Re: Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP
An agency is looking for nurses to work this strike. They are offering $50 an hour. Just because the "nursing shortage", is over, does not mean that nurses need to bend over and take it! Fight back!
JMHO and my NY $0.02.
Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN
Spokane, Washington
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Oct 15, 2009, 09:57 PM
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Nov 09, 2009 at 10:39 AM by NRSKarenRN
Re: Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP
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If you are interested or want to ask more questions about this opportunity, reply to this message
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What do you all think about this? I think that it stinks!
Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN
Spokane, Washington
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Oct 15, 2009, 11:09 PM
Re: Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP
It stinks but the odor will attrackt the flies . They will find whatever justification they can to stab their fellow nurses in the back to gain $$$'s .
Nurses areour own worst enemies , we eat our own , spit out the pieces and then justify our actions , when in reality ,like our employers it's all about the money
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Nov 09, 2009, 01:43 AM
Re: Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP
Its not really all about the money! It also has to do with the fact that there is still going to be patients to be cared for while the nurses and Temple work out their indifferences. I personnally love to travel and I've nursed for 26 years, so I see this as an opportunity to see a new place, meet new people, take care of your patients and be paid to do it. It's not that I don't agree with why your striking, I know nursing is tough, we're all under paid and short staffed. But some one has to be there so you can maybe get what you want and need to return to work and feel like you have accomplished something. So go for it and Good Luck. I just wish alabama had a union for nurses.
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Nov 09, 2009, 03:16 PM
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Nov 09, 2009 at 04:01 PM by NRSKarenRN
Re: Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP
Updates: Article | Inquirer posted 2009-10-31 Temple nurses say offer includes gag clause ..Bill Cruice, PASNAP's executive director, said about 150 union members picketed yesterday during a ribbon-cutting for Temple University's new medical school building.
He said the proposed gag clause was "not only illegal but morally reprehensible." The union cannot legally be forced to negotiate that issue, which the hospital included in its "last, best offer," Cruice said. According to the union, the proposal states: "The Association, its officers, agents, representatives and members shall not publicly criticize, ridicule or make any statement which disparages Temple, or any of its affiliates or any of their respective management officers or medical staff members." In the event of "defamation," the union would pay "damages" of $250,000.
Sandy Gomberg, the hospital's interim chief executive, said the union had "misrepresented" the intent of the "non-disparagement clause."
She said it was not meant to prevent an individual nurse from criticizing the hospital, but to keep union officials from harming the hospital's reputation. The hospital filed a defamation suit against the union in July regarding statements about Medicare funding.
"What we won't tolerate is the union, not our employees, making derogatory and defamatory statements about the hospital, individuals who work here, or the patient care we provide," she said. ...
Posted on Thu, Oct. 1, 2009 No strike at Temple
By DAVID GAMBACORTA
Philadelphia Daily News
Good news: About 1,500 Temple University Hospital nurses and staffers decided to postpone a three-day strike that was set to begin tomorrow over rocky contract negotiations.
Bad news: The already-sticky talks between nursing union officials and Temple University Health System brass seemed to grow more contentious yesterday. The Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP), which represents the nurses and staffers at Temple Hospital, announced that its members had rejected the Health System's proposal, 1,051 to 7.
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Cruice said Temple officials are seeking to phase out a longtime tuition benefit for children of employees, substantially increase employees' health-care costs and implement "below par" wage increases. He added that union officials were angered when they obtained a financial report earlier this week that indicated that the Health System has made a profit this year of $7.1 million "despite blowing through $50 million in costs" connected to the June closure of Northeastern Hospital..
"Our nurses have the highest [wage] rates in the region, and they're asking for raises of 4 and 5 percent."
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...no further news info posted nor @ PASNAP website re negotiations.
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Nov 11, 2009, 08:47 AM
Re: Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP Originally Posted by vprice  Its not really all about the money! It also has to do with the fact that there is still going to be patients to be cared for while the nurses and Temple work out their indifferences. I personnally love to travel and I've nursed for 26 years, so I see this as an opportunity to see a new place, meet new people, take care of your patients and be paid to do it. It's not that I don't agree with why your striking, I know nursing is tough, we're all under paid and short staffed. But some one has to be there so you can maybe get what you want and need to return to work and feel like you have accomplished something. So go for it and Good Luck. I just wish alabama had a union for nurses.
Sorry , but if you want to travel , take up a regular travel assignment , were you may be paid less than as a strike breaker ,but if travel is honestly what you seek , wouldn't that be better than helping an employer break a strike ?. The arguement that someone has to do it ,has been used throughout history by those doing something others find reprehensible ( think abortionists or concentation camp guards etc.. ) and is the lamest arguement available .
Maybe if there was not such a ready supply of strike breakers , employers would concentrate more upon realistic negotiations and thereby negate the threat of a strike .
It all comes down to the higher pay a strike breaker is prepared to accept to betray there fellow nurses .
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Nov 20, 2009, 05:50 PM
Re: Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP
So what you are saying, NICURN001, is that you would rather the patients suffer with no care at all than to have have a competent, seasoned nurse taking care of them? This is not back stabbing or betrayal. Nurses have chosen to abandon their patients for a raise or the fact that their families aren't going to have their tuition reimbursed at the local college, so let the patients suffer under the hand of workers without the experience to safely take care of them!(just examples)The poster who you so eloquently flamed for doing the right thing was only trying to say that she wasn't there just for the money but for the experience. I just don't think its appropriate to degrade someone for doing what they think is right. I don't agree with unions, but i don't go around being an ass about it.....
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Nov 20, 2009, 06:06 PM
Re: Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP Originally Posted by PICUPNP So what you are saying, NICURN001, is that you would rather the patients suffer with no care at all than to have have a competent, seasoned nurse taking care of them? This is not back stabbing or betrayal. Nurses have chosen to abandon their patients for a raise or the fact that their families aren't going to have their tuition reimbursed at the local college, so let the patients suffer under the hand of workers without the experience to safely take care of them!(just examples)The poster who you so eloquently flamed for doing the right thing was only trying to say that she wasn't there just for the money but for the experience. I just don't think its appropriate to degrade someone for doing what they think is right. I don't agree with unions, but i don't go around being an ass about it.....
Actually, stikes help the striking nurses. The cost of strikers quickly uses up the employers insurance. And they really can't afford to be on strike too long.
Years ago we had some real short staffing. I don't remember the reasons, but we had to recruit case managers, and some higher ups back to staff nursing. They were useless. Some had never used a pump, primed tpn, they weren't signed off on doing blood sugars etc. They hadn't even used a pleura-vac. They weren't ACLS certified etc. A poor excuse for a replacement nurse. It wasn't their faults. They just weren't able to perform.
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