Prior overwhelming strike authorization plans led bosses at two Pittsburgh-area hospitals to sign historic contracts covering more than 1,100 nurses and support staffers combined, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania announced.
The pacts, reached within a three-day span of September 9-12, also were pushed into public consciousness by mass demonstrations by the nurses, taking their causes to the hospital customers in their battles with West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh and Allegheny Valley Hospital in suburban Natrona Heights.