24 PA nursing homes to strike Sept 2, including Meyersdale and Johnstown
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He urged Pat Cullen and the Royal College of Nursing 'to do likewise, to come to those talks and focus on how we work together in the interests of patients'. The spokesman denied reports that Downing Street had blocked a proposal by Mr Barclay for a one-off payment to NHS staff. The spokesman said there is a 'concerning lack of clarity' about what care paramedics will be able to provide. The Mail recently revealed that locum agencies rake in eye-watering amounts of money from the NHS by plugging its staff shortage. Scott Arthur, who works in a hotel in Newcastle, is not sympathetic to the railway workers.
I think folks are going back to work proud for standing up for themselves and the residents,” said Matt Yarnell, president of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania. The owner of the facility also said they are offering workers up to a 13% increase in wages, but they want it based on the years of experience they have. Foster is one of about 15 employees who started striking Friday morning. The workers at Windsor Health & Rehab Center said they are frustrated over working conditions and current wages and feel overworked and underpaid.
Workers at 14 nursing homes in Pennsylvania go on strike
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Baril said RegalCare failed to take the initial strike warnings seriously and arrange for adequate replacement staff and services, as required by the Department of Public Health. You can report abuse at a memory care facility by filing an incident report with the facility’s management, reporting the abuse to the local police, calling Adult Protective Services , or enlisting a lawyer to help you. Memory care facilities are responsible for caring for your loved one with dementia or another cognitive disease.
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Priority used agency staff to fill shifts vacated by the striking workers, according to the Pennsylvania Health Care Association, which counts Priority as a member. It is the second day of strikes in December, after an initial strike on 15 December, the biggest in the RCN’s history. It meant the cancellation of thousands of outpatient appointments and non-urgent operations. WHYY offers a voice to those not heard, a platform to share everyone’s stories, a foundation to empower early and lifelong learners and a trusted space for unbiased news.
She said the workers have been without a contract since the beginning of the year. But the increased reimbursements do not kick in until January, and the American Rescue Plan money has not yet been distributed, according to the Pennsylvania Health Care Association, which represents for-profit nursing homes. Some services will be protected during December’s strikes, including chemotherapy, dialysis, intensive care and high dependency units and neonatal and paediatric intensive care.
Thousands of Pa. nursing home workers may strike despite $600M for care in state budget
Holiday / 7 hours agoWe’ve compiled a list of stocking stuffers with budget-friendly choices for everyone from movie fans to kitchen baristas. Meyersdale Healthcare & Rehab and Richland Healthcare & Rehab, both owned by Guardian Healthcare, are two of the facilities impacted by Monday's vote by Service Employees International Union Healthcare Pennsylvania members. The union said it also filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board, claiming new hires who are unlicensed CNAs have been required to work for free in exchange for supposed educational benefits. “I know other facilities, with the experience and years I have, they’re working over $20 an hour. I just had to find another job the other day to get medical insurance because I couldn’t afford the medical insurance that’s in my building,” Foster said.
Our Lady of Peace workers hold a picket outside the nursing home Feb. 10, 2022. Holiday / 7 hours agoTo get an edge on the competition, many stores are already offering pre-pre-holiday sales. Of the 14 nursing homes impacted by the strike, five are in northeast Pennsylvania. The strike notice involves issues related to the use of agency staff or the regulatory staffing ratios set to go into effect this year. "We as a union want to make sure that people get good high-quality care, workers have a seat at the table through their union, and we want these careers to be good careers," said Yarnell. Saffron Cordery, interim chief executive of NHS Providers, told BBC Breakfast that NHS trust leaders 'genuinely understand why staff are choosing to strike.
Multiple hospital sources tell News 4 the negotiations have not gone well so far, and they have genuine concerns that a strike is a real possibility, not just a negotiating threat. Mt. Sinai Hospital said that while negotiations "may be noisy and bumpy at times," they are "committed to negotiating in good faith at all times to ensure fairness and fiscal responsibility" and they are "confident" an agreement will be reached. Nursing homes have long struggled with high turnover, which the COVID-19 pandemic made worse, and some facilities were forced to close or downsize because of lagging Medicaid reimbursements, according to trade groups. He accused the nursing home operators of "failing to create the kind of wage scales we’ve been able to achieve with other providers."
The Hartford Courant is reporting that this demonstration was an attempt to draw more attention to the situation in order to speed up the resolution process. Hopefully the Attorney General’s efforts will work because elder care is a field where disgruntled employees can have a decidedly large impact. In homes where employees are unhappy, the level of care almost always plummets. Such a setup, Menio said, allows private companies to use nursing home funding as a “piggy bank.” Transparency, as the union has asked for, could help counter this tendency. Zach Shamberg, chief executive of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association, said that the funding boost should help counteract years of low state spending on elder care and bring security to the industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic. His trade group for long-term care facilities counts Priority as a member.
Workers are calling for more pay and better benefits, something they said that’s only offered to full-time employees right now. "This workforce has been through so much," said SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania President Matt Yarnell. "They've been called heroes. Now's the time to pony up and make these good jobs." PITTSBURGH -- Workers at two dozen nursing home facilities across Pennsylvania have sent out notices that they intend to strike.
The UK’s fantastic nursing staff – many of whom will have late, early and really tough shifts over the holiday period – are dreading this dispute dragging into the New Year. There, sources say, unions rejected two rounds of increased offers before a third resulted in a deal that was “reluctantly” agreed despite being below inflation. Downing Street looked likely to reject a proposal to give the nurses a one-off lump-sum payment in an attempt to end the industrial action.
Various factors are driving the strikes, but the proximate cause is inflation resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and post-pandemic supply chain problems. But parts of the public service sector have been vulnerable for some time. The National Health Service, which provides free care, has been underfunded and hemorrhaging workers for years. Joining them this month are employees from other essential services including rail workers, mail carriers and airport immigration officers. It's the largest series of labor actions in the United Kingdom in more than a decade, and presents a major challenge to the new government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
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Union bosses indicated they would be flexible on their demands but today said that a 'firm commitment' on wages is needed to for the Government to have any chance of preventing the devastating walk-outs. Matthew Lee, a train guard, picketed last week in front of London's King's Cross station, which was nearly empty. He said one of his coworkers is now skipping dinner — because she can no longer afford it. On strike days, rail workers have cut train operations across the country by 80%. By early Friday evening, the doors to London's Waterloo station and its 24 train platforms were locked shut. "I think that nurses need to be given a pay rise that matches inflation because the cost of living shot up so much," said nurse Rosie Woods, referring to the United Kingdom's inflation rate, which is near 11%, its highest level in four decades.
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