Tensions Escalate Between Prime Healthcare and Nurses, Including at St. Mary's
A nurse at Saint Mary’s says union members are meeting with the bargaining team this week amid renewed tensions after an email sent out today to nurses by Prime Healthcare was titled “Discriminatory Strike Vote, No Tolerance Policy Harassment.”
“We are currently up for contract negotiations,” the nurse wrote Our Town Reno sharing the email. “Prime Healthcare has refused multiple times to give us safe staffing ratios, safe orientation for new grads (only 6 weeks which is way below standard for training a new nurse) and giving fair wages,” they alleged.
After an overwhelming union vote to strike, the email from Prime Healthcare alleges “the union was potentially suppressing the vote of many of our employees.”
Meanwhile, a flyer from the California Nurses Association, the National Nurses Organizing Committee and National Nurses United has a bold headline proclaiming “Strikes Authorized at Prime Hospitals in California and Nevada,” including the St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center.
Last April, frontline caregivers at Prime Healthcare’s West Anaheim Medical Center staged a midday picket, in front of West Anaheim Medical Center, which is also on the strike list, to address alarming turnover rates and low wages allegedly jeopardizing patient care.
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