In a statement, Stanford Health Care said it is extremely pleased that a three-year contract was reached and we truly look forward to welcoming our colleagues back on Tuesday.. Q: I dont work on Monday, should I come to the picket line? On other units, the numbers of core staff are so low that the Float Pool and travelers provide a significant amount of the units staffing. Payments for Nurses in Hard to fill units:payment with check for first full pay period September for hours worked in quarter ending August 31. The decision to withdraw benefits is standard practice that is not exclusive to either of the hospitals, wrote Chief Nurse Executive and Vice President of Patient Care Services for Stanford Health Care Dale Beatty and Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Vice President of Patient Care for Stanford Childrens Health Jesus Cepero in a joint statement to The Daily. CRONA has launched an online petition that has garnered over 26,000. Deadline: Friday, September 16, 2022. Really? The problem is - that there has not been an announcement on how long the strike will last. 499 Seaport Ct, Suite 202Redwood City, CA 94063, CRONA@CRONA.orgPhone: (650) 366-0156Fax: (650) 366-0182, @ Copyright 2021 by CRONA | Terms | Privacy. Nurses are exhausted, and were burning out, Charon Brown, a nurse in the cardiovascular ICU at Stanford Health Care, said. Excluded Holidayvote:this vote must be heldbeforea holiday bundling vote may be held. On some recent shifts, on some units, there were more travelers working than core staff. So cute! Youll be working a 12-hour shift, and be asked to stay over for another four hours. The amount of retirement match contribution is based on the Nurses years of retirement eligible service: The 2022 IRS maximum pre-tax 403(b) limit on elective salary deferrals the most a Nurse may contribute from wages is $20,500 (up to $27,000 for age 50 or older). Note: Stanford Nurses benefits were not affected; this is a Packard-only issue. We are proud of the unity and strength CRONA Nurses have shown every single day since the start of the strike. The hospitals agree. CRONA is committed to ensuring that employers are not allowed to weaponize health care benefits in the future. The Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) reached. Act now, or set a reminder and mark your calendars for everything happening in our contracts this summer. Our speaker will teach you techniques to help you navigate turbulent situations that arise when dealing with violence in the healthcare setting. Healthcare Dive has developed a tracker. For any LPCH Nurse who has had problems with coverage, you should contact Jasmine Robinson at JasRobinson@stanfordchildrens.org. Nursing Experience: 26 years as a nurse, including 23 years in the LPCH neonatal ICU. This is money that is contributed automatically, even if the Nurse does not make any contribution. Union leaders had cited nurses fatigue and burnout as among the reasons to strike, and became upset upon discovering that the hospitals would temporarily rescind the health benefits of nurses who participated. Stanford Health Care (Photo: STEVE FISCH/Stanford Health Care) By Anuka Mohanpuhrand Brandon Kim May 1, 2022, 11:54 p.m. Her experience also includes adult medical/surgical/trauma and years of travel nursing from her to Montana and Georgia. We will conduct CRONA business during Convention, including discussion of any proposed Bylaws changes, updates from our legal team, annual budget review, and we will have a CEU class with guest speaker. Speaking of our Bylaws, we will soon reach the time of year when our Bylaws committee conducts its annual review. I had neverworked at aunion-represented hospitalbefore, soI knew I was a member but beyond that I did not even know we were in contract negotiations. today reiterated the nurses intent to reach the strongest contracts possible, saying, We will continue to meet with the hospital bargaining team and the federal mediator and are committed to working hard to reach a fair agreement so we can return to caring for our patients., Resident physicians vote to authorize strike if necessary at 3 LA County hospitals, When Health Care Workers Are Protected, Patients Are, Too, Another Nurse Prosecuted For The Death of a Patient, The VZPD Show Ep. Our contract language states that Nurses do not have to work holidays when they are in orientation. This includes workarounds such as pulling the NA to work as a sitter, requiring the Resource Nurse to function as RSN and unit secretary, pulling the float/break Nurse to work as a sitter, Nurses missing breaks or working out of ratio, and more. Kimberley Reed, a cardiac ICU nurse who has said that nurses in her department were leaving for better-staffed hospitals, emphasized the importance of the incentive program. The union has not set an end date for the strike. We will continue to highlight new contract provisions in future newsletters, membership meetings, and in our social media to give all CRONA Nurses the opportunity to stay informed and learn our new language. Other nursing experience includes United States Army Nurse Corps; inpatient med/surg/ortho, PACU, inpatient float pool, labor & delivery, unit manager. (We will have CRONA t-shirts available Friday afternoon for adults and kids.) To fill in for the striking nurses, Stanford Hospital hired traveling nurses through an employment agency offering $13,000 a week in salary, plus free food, housing and transportation. Monday morning CRONA Nurses will stand in unity demanding fair contracts that recognize our worth. Under our return to work agreement with the hospitals, you should use your best efforts to report as scheduled on May 3, but as long as you are acting in good faith, you will not be subject to discipline. Nurses ratify agreement with Stanford, ending weeklong strike The striking nurses are expected to return to work Tuesday PALO ALTO, CA - APRIL 25: Nurses and their supporters take part in. CRONAs Bylaws (a) outline the procedures that govern charges and discipline for CRONA members who did not honor the strike line and (b) establish guidelines for the reinstatement of Nurses who resigned their CRONA membership and want to rejoin CRONA. But we never doubted our worth. After years of battling the pandemic on the frontlines, it is time for executives in the hospital industry to listen to Nurses instead of resorting to union-busting tactics and cutting corners. Our manager announced that she had been assuredour unit would be staffed bynon-union temp workers. CRONA objected to these conversations as intimidating and misleading. At the time, the nurses union the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) was far smaller than it is today. Is work not available on the holiday, such as Memorial Day this week, or July 4thon the upcoming schedule? Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot concedes defeat, Southern California home sales fall to all-time low, Denver just got a direct flight to this Caribbean island known for music history and vegetarian cooking, NYC Mayor Adams dismisses need to separate church and state, declares himself a servant of God, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. Kids are allowed to carry signs as in photo above. Self-made signs should have appropriate slogans, without profanity. We won improvements across every single priority area we set out , industry-leading wages (17% over the next three years), significant improvements to retiree medical benefits and access to mental health benefits, incentive pay for high-acuity, hard-to-staff units, additional pre-scheduled vacation rights. The new wage scales are linked on our Negotiations page. April 30, 2022 Updated: April 30, 2022 9:38 p.m. Facebook Twitter Email. Striking nurses may pay to continue their health coverage through COBRA, a federal program that allows employees to temporarily extend their group health benefits, Beatty and Cepero added. Your CRONA negotiating team was in federal mediation today with the hospitals and the parties have agreed to continue working with the federal mediator tomorrow. Set up get-togethers with your work friends on the picket line. The nurses walked out on April 25 after a 93% approval vote that authorized CRONA to call a strike. Outside LPCH she worked as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and lactation specialist working in pediatric outpatient clinics. While we have considered the hospitals request to call off the strike, we are not prepared to stop pushing for contracts that recognize the value we bring to the hospitals and meaningfully address the urgent issues that are making our profession unsustainable. The Stanford strike was the latest by Bay Area nurses who say they have worked unreasonably long hours, skipped holidays and dealt with the constant onslaught of death and suffering unleashed by the pandemic. Now is the time to stand strong and united as we push for the contracts we deserve. Stanford and Lucile Packard Children's hospitals nurses dance in Welch Road on the first day of their strike on April 25, 2022. Photo by Magali Gauthier. Summer Lin covers breaking news and general assignment for The Mercury News. We quickly arranged carpools and dubbed the UCSF PICU LPCH North.The inability of the hospital to cover the normal patient load meant that the surrounding hospitals were packed with our patients. The hospitals did not agree. If the agreement is ratified, nurses will be back to work as early as Tuesday, the union announced. Your CRONA team will of course let you know if there is anything to report. Keep this image up through Nurse Week and showcase how CRONA Nurses carry on the legacy of Florence Nightingale and light the way forward in Nursing. These jackets were prizes at events earlier this year and a lot of people really liked them. Over 30,000 people have. Any member in good standing may bring charges against other member(s). One of the key features of our union is that your CRONA leadership team, myself included, are all actively practicing bedside Registered Nurses. Are they waiting to see how many travelers they can get? The requirements for each step shifted along with the numbering of the steps and there are still 12 steps in the pay scale. After 52 days,the strikefinallyendedand we returned to work. Otherwise the new hire will be scheduled for absent days (unpaid time).. I am frustrated that Stanford and Packard hospitals would rather cut corners than invest in their bedside Nurses, especially after receiving hundreds of millions in federal aid dollars. There are several reasons why nurses have chosen this moment to push for change, said Joanne Spetz, director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UC San Francisco. Weve been here for a long time, and when we see other people are making more than us, it just shows that Stanford doesnt care and this is how they treat their employees. Hospital administrators will withdraw health care benefits from striking nurses beginning May 1, according to CRONA. Half an hour later,the CRONA president camebyand offered to cover the PICU on a shift-to-shift basis since so many patients were uncovered. This could be significant for those having to pay for insurance out of pocket. Complete contracts and PNDP documents for SHC and LPCH for 2022-2025 are now available online! Yes. Look for announcements about other events! Stanford would not provide a count of these traveling nurses, but the union says it can approach 25% in some sites, such as the Intensive Care Unit. Being in a labor dispute should not mean you lose access to health care. It has left many nurses, especially those with health issues, children, or medically fragile family members to reconsider striking. Roughly 93 percent of nurses represented by CRONA voted to authorize the strike. I look forward to seeing many of you at the meeting, next Wednesday on June 8th. Beatty and Cepero defended the hospitals previous efforts to increase staffing, writing to The Daily that both hospitals have made significant investments in nurse staffing in recent years, even as many hospitals face unprecedented staffing challenges. According to Beatty and Cepero, the clinical nurse population at Stanford Health Care has increased by 36% since January 2019, while the clinical nurse population at Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital has increased by 24.5% in that same timespan. CRONA has raised these concerns directly with the hospital. According to the website, CRONA is an independent union for Registered Nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Health Stanford. Nurses at Stanford and Lucile Packard Children's hospitals went on strike this morning after more than three months of unsuccessful contract negotiations. PALO ALTO, CA The nurses union at Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital issued an intent to strike letter Wednesday, and nurses will begin to walk off the job on April 25 . Please keep watch over any children you bring to the picket line. We gave report and walked outas a group. Im not competing with a nurse in Wyoming to buy my first home here in the Bay Area, Hernandez said. For more information, see our Strike FAQ. To bring charges against a CRONA Nurse for crossing the picket line during the strike, emailcrona@crona.orgusing subject line Charges Against Member.. Health care strikes have also taken place in New York, Massachusetts, Oregon, Alabama and Montana. 5,000 nurses went on strike at Stanford Health Care and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, CA in April of 2022. After the strike was announced and Stanford was given notice, they announced that starting May 1st, in addition to withholding pay, it would also be suspending health insurance benefits for striking nurses and their families. But it appears that Packard leadership did not learn from their experiences during our negotiations earlier this year. It is SHAMEFUL. May 10, 2022, Celebrating our unity! In the words of a seasoned nurse, Stick together, what you do now will bring better contracts for years to come. Harriette Cole: I don't want the neighbor's kids at my house, Dear Abby: My wife said she doesn't like it, but it's part of my life, Ask Amy: I feel guilty for not speaking up about my co-worker's activities, Ask Amy: I'm your cabin housekeeper, and you apparently have no idea what I do. It was one of the most powerful and moving experiences I have ever participated in. For example, the longevity step requiring 10.5 years employment was Step 9 and is now Step 8. The proposed wage increase would take place over two years, beginning retroactively on April 1 with a 5% increase in base rate pay. Nursing Experience: 28 years in nursing, including 22 years at LPCH. He is majoring in Political Science with a minor in Creative Writing. Stanford also guaranteed an additional week of pre-scheduled vacation for all nurses starting in 2024, as well as additional protections against workplace violence, including a new response team at the childrens hospital. At Stanford, this request must be made through Workday; notices about the process were sent via employee email on Monday, July 18. We worked with CreditCards.com to help nurses find the right card to fit their lifestyle. One key issue that has been a constant throughout negotiations is staffing. In some cases, there was no attempt by management to ask nurses to work SNC. In just a few hours,the hospital was crawling with managers. The strike followed months of strained negotiations between CRONA and the hospitals, with nurses calling for wages reflecting the high cost of living in the Bay Area and an improved staffing system that prioritizes their mental health. Your manager should not unreasonably deny this request if staffing numbers are sufficient on the days your unit is open during the week. Dr. Sandi has a burning passion to help eradicate violence against nurses through education to patients and medical. in support of CRONA nurses, calling on the CEOs to rescind this decision before May 1. Most of us have not been on strike before and could use some advice. The agreement also commits Stanford hospitals to expanding the Employee Assistance Program to provide better mental health support for nurses. They should not be unprepared. The Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital scheduled a formal bargaining session on Tuesday with its nurses, who are scheduled to strike Monday, the nurse's union announced . We will also have CRONA T-SHIRTS available Friday afternoon for adults and kids (kids sizes in limited quantities). We even had Coca-Cola and AT&T representatives stop by to support us. Norisa Diaz, Jonathan Burleigh, Tom Hall 24 April 2022 Roughly 5,000 registered nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucile. Due to our Nurse Week Unity Celebration on the second Wednesday in May we are moving the webinar to the THIRD WEDNESDAY, May 18. Given the hospitals outrageous behavior, we understand that it is hard to focus on the real work of negotiations. CRONA gave more than the required 10-day notice to the hospitals in an effort to allow the hospitals to plan for adequate patient care. Brandon Kim '25 is a Managing Editor for The Grind and a staff writer for News. Holiday bundling vote request forms are available on theFormspage of the CRONA website. Miss Manners: I shouldn't call because the phone scares people? We provided them with the same quality care, just in a different location. Return to Work Times. Insufficient staffing of specialty-qualified Nurses. We will provide an update as soon as we have one to share. Do not be intimidated! Return to Work Updates May 2, 2022; 5:41 p.m. Please use this for your profile picture or post to your social media feed to show your support! Expect more updates on new contract provisions in upcoming newsletters. Applications for Reinstatement of Membership, Section 401.1 of CRONAs Bylaws provides that any CRONA member who resigned from CRONA may apply for reinstatement after fulfilling all the necessary obligations as determined by the Executive Board and may include a reinstatement fee of up to $3,000.00. As a strike continues, the union representing about 5,000 nurses at Stanford and Lucile . 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