A strike at Temple isn't inevitable, but more than 2,000 nurses and techs are edging closer to it. Workers are planning a rally at the Pennsylvania Convention Center at noon on Friday.
PublishedTemple University Hospital’s nurses and technicians unions took a tangible step toward striking this week amid negotiations over a contract that expired last month.
“We have very reasonable offers on the table, chief among them a proposal that would ensure safe staffing in the hospital,” said Mary Adamson, president of the TUNA and an ICU nurse, in a statement Friday. “That’s what we want.” The unions say existing staffing issues were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Temple was flooded with COVID patients in 2020, forcing the hospital to convert a gymnasium into space for the sick. Nurses shouldered enormous workloads, with some saying at the time that medical and surgical units saw exhausting ratios of six to seven patients per nurse. Burnouts, retirements, and resignations followed.
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