Strike Looms at Santa Fe Hospital

Santa Fe New Mexican - Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center negotiators did not show up Tuesday for a scheduled 8 a.m. negotiation session with union representatives hoping to hammer out a new contract for the hospital's nurses and technical workers. The conflict between the hospital's management and negotiators for the local branch of the District 1199 National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees has played out in several other venues over the last week. Since May, the two entities have been trying to finalize a new contract for the approximately 400 nurses and 125 technical workers employed by the hospital. The existing contract was set to expire June 30, but in late June, both parties agreed to extend it for another month after the union gave a 10-day notice that it would strike if an agreement was not reached by the contract end date. The parties stopped meeting July 20 after the hospital alleged that union representatives had refused the services of a federal mediator — and union representatives said the hospital walked away from the bargaining table. The next day, the union filed its second 10-day strike notice. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Strike Looms at Santa Fe Hospital