AGH nurses get pact, 3% raise.

...The strike was postponed, but according to union representatives, it has not been prevented.
“Today, our nurses are among the best paid in the region, with an average hourly rate of $39.80, which translates into more than $82,000 a year, and that’s without overtime, on-call and shift-differential pay,” said TUHS Director of Public Relations Rebecca Harmon. “Our final offer included a wage-adjustment scale for nurses of 0 percent in the first year, 2 percent in the second year, and 2 percent in the third year.
Even without a wage increase this year, TUH nurses still set the highest wage levels in the market.”

Two new steps were added to the CCNA pay scale, in years 17 and 24, and the starting wage for new nursing graduates will be hiked to $29.56 per hour. Top-of-scale pay for nurses with 28 years was also bumped to $50.62 per hour.

A 3 % wage increase sounds good now, but next year they can take it all back and more with layoffs. U.P.M.C. Braddock is closing in 90 days or less. Almost 800 jobs lost. These are troubled times indead.