Union nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center plan to sever their contract with the hospital before a strike vote next month, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
National Nurses United, which represents nearly 1,300 registered nurses at the hospital, has been in contract negotiations with UCMC since August. Nurses remain unsatisfied with staffing levels in scheduling and have scheduled a strike vote April 12 and 13.
Jan Rodolfo of NNU says current staffing levels are unsafe, as nurses sometimes rotate from daytime to nighttime shifts — both of which last 12 hours — during the same two-week period. In California, NNU helped pass a state law that requires hospitals to meet certain nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.
Read the Bloomberg Businessweek report on the UCMC nurse strike vote.
Read more on nurse strikes:
-10 Recent Nursing Strikes, Lawsuits and Unionizations at U.S. Hospitals
National Nurses United, which represents nearly 1,300 registered nurses at the hospital, has been in contract negotiations with UCMC since August. Nurses remain unsatisfied with staffing levels in scheduling and have scheduled a strike vote April 12 and 13.
Jan Rodolfo of NNU says current staffing levels are unsafe, as nurses sometimes rotate from daytime to nighttime shifts — both of which last 12 hours — during the same two-week period. In California, NNU helped pass a state law that requires hospitals to meet certain nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.
Read the Bloomberg Businessweek report on the UCMC nurse strike vote.
Read more on nurse strikes:
-10 Recent Nursing Strikes, Lawsuits and Unionizations at U.S. Hospitals