Armed with a new legal opinion that states Wisconsin law does not explicitly block UW Health from bargaining with employee unions, nurses who work for the hospital system are stepping up their campaign to restore union representation.
The nurses’ strike at Saint Vincent Hospital reached another milestone this week as the costs for the Worcester police detail outside the facility surpassed $4 million.
The hospital in Worcester sent a payment of about $110,000 to the city this week pushing the overall total Saint Vincent Hospital has paid since the start of the strike to $4,034,647.01, according to city and hospital officials.
Nurses from UPMC Altoona gathered in front of UPMC headquarters in Downtown Pittsburgh’s U.S. Steel Tower on Wednesday, demanding the health care giant invest more resources into retaining nurses and staving off a staffing shortage they said is jeopardizing patient care.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it won't review the Ninth Circuit's ruling that weekly per diems paid to traveling nurses and medical technicians functioned as wages, not reasonable reimbursements for travel expenses, under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The dispute would have presented the issue before the high court for the first time.