Union nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital on Sunday approved a new three-year contract that calls for a 4% raise each year. The contract will raise their average base wage from the current $107.91 an hour to $121.38 in the third year.
The union — the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement or CRONA — said that 75% of more than 6,000 members voted in support of the new contract.
The union said the new contracts also include measures to improve scheduling, including options for shift coverage when a nurse’s PTO is depleted, confirmation that nurses may have improved flexibility in weekend scheduling, three weeks’ notice of upcoming schedules to allow nurses to plan around work, and a new holiday, the day after Thanksgiving.
Additionally, according to the union, the new contracts include protections related to new technology including AI, which state that new technology is not intended to be used to eliminate nurses’ role in the delivery of care and cannot supplant the nurses’ clinical judgment.
“When we began negotiating our new contracts, our goal was to make sure talented, dedicated CRONA nurses could stay in the Bay Area and continue to provide expert care to our patients for years to come, especially during this challenging moment for healthcare providers,” said CRONA President Colleen Borges, a registered nurse at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital are part of Stanford Medicine.
A nurse who puts in 40 hours a week will be making $250,000 a year. No wonder they didn’t go on strike and put up a picket line, nobody would feel any sympathy for them. It’s like they’re NFL players, where the lowest paid player makes $795,000 a year. I guess that’s why health insurance is so costly.
What’s the cost of living there? That’s the issue.If a home costs a half a mil…do the math.
You’re looking in from the outside. Consider the cost of living across the Bay Area and your numbers don’t and won’t add up. Yes it’s something vs nothing in this agreement. This was a concessional agreement where at least 25% of nurses did not agree and were ready to strike and a good percentage of those that agreed couldn’t afford to strike.