Healthcare workers and administrators at Steward Health Care System's Morton Hospital in Taunton, Mass., have reached a three-year contract, according to a Boston Business Journal report.
The contract, which averts a potential one-day nurse strike, covers 350 union employees. It includes increased staffing levels, enhanced security and increased wages, according to the report.
Specifically, nurses will receive a 3.75 percent increase in pay over the three-year course of the contract, with a 1.5 percent across-the-board increase going back to Jan. 1, the Boston Business Journal reports. Other employees like pharmacists and physical therapists will see 10 to 22 percent increases in pay by the end of the contract period.
Under the contract, staffing levels will also increase in the expanded emergency department, medical-surgical floors and intensive care units, among other provisions, according to the report.
Negotiations have been ongoing since October. Nurses previously voted to authorize a potential strike.
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