Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, Nurses Settle on Contract

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

The contract calls for a 7.5 percent salary increase over five years, retention of pivotal charge nurse positions and no-cost health care benefits for individual nurses...

... The contract comes after months of bargaining talks, mediation and fact finding. Those avenues exhausted, the nurses threatened to strike for one day last week. The hospital board met in a special session before the strike day and announced its plans to accept the agreement.

Lockard, who has worked at SVMH for the past 20 years, applauded the board for its leadership. "I am ecstatic that the board did not make it come down to that," she said.

The turning point in the conflict, for her, came when the board held the administration accountable for reaching an agreement. They saw the value of the charge nurse as a resource, she said...

Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, Nurses Settle on Contract | National Nurses United

[Amabel25]

Where can i find a copy of the contract?

[caliotter3]

Might want to contact National Nurses United, mentioned on the link/picture caption.