In the latest strike to hit a Southland hospital in recent weeks, some 700 non-nursing healthcare workers at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank began a five-day, unfair-labor practice walkout Monday over what their union calls "bad faith bargaining and other illegal tactics meant to silence workers."In the latest strike to hit a Southland hospital in recent weeks, some 700 non-nursing health care workers at Providence St.
"The union has offered unrealistic counterproposals in response and has chosen to strike instead of continue with good-faith negotiations," the hospital statement said. Specific union concerns, according to an SEIU-UHW statement, include "longstanding issues of understaffing, worker turnover and patient care concerns," in addition to higher wages.
"We are being intimidated and threatened for wanting to improve our hospital, while Providence executives bargain in bad faith over solutions to our short-staffing crisis," Christian Ayon, a lead surgical technician at Providence St. Joseph, said in a statement released by the union. The Providence statement went on to say, "The union has also accused hospital management of engaging in bad faith bargaining and other illegal tactics, including silencing workers. Providence Saint Joseph is committed to respectful discourse and urges caregivers to report concerns in a variety of ways, including via an anonymous integrity hotline."
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