CWA Workers Approve New Union Contracts with Catholic Health, Return to Mercy Hospital Wednesday
“After three days of voting, more than 2,500 Communications Workers of America employees at Mercy, Kenmore Mercy and Sisters St. Joseph hospitals have approved six new four-year union contracts. This officially ends the strike at Mercy in South Buffalo, where nurses, service, clerical and technical,” reports Marian Hetherly in WBFO.
“The biggest issue on the bargaining table has been staffing. CWA said the minimum nurse-to-patient staffing levels secured in the new contracts with Catholic Health are the “first written into a union contract in the country outside of California, and will set a precedent for hospitals across New York and beyond. New York’s own safe staffing.”
