SEIU Healthcare PA

About 700 Pennsylvania nursing home workers have ended their seven-plus-day strike after reaching contract agreements with management. This impacts the more than 20 facilities run by two companies, Comprehensive Healthcare and Priority Healthcare.

Efforts to unionize healthcare workers in Pittsburgh and across the state may be getting a shot in the arm, thanks to a little-noted change the state wants to make in its handling of Medicaid funds.

Nurses from Altoona, Pennsylvania, gathered in Downtown Pittsburgh Wednesday to raise alarms about UPMC Altoona's emergency room wait times and critically low staff.

Groups are calling for renewed debate about UPMC’s obligations to its host city and the more than 50,000 people it employs regionally.

Nurses at West Penn Hospital want management to provide more resources to deal with the effects of the coronavirus. On Tuesday, they asked West Penn to agree to a new union contract that would recruit new nurses and invest in existing staff.

Nurses at West Penn Hospital say they are still dealing with the effects of the pandemic, including a decrease in nursing staff and an increase in patients. On Thursday they asked hospital leaders to agree to a new union contract that “respects and invests in nurses.”

SEIU union members at nursing homes in Uniontown, Beaver Falls and Aliquippa, voted to authorize their contract negotiating committees to enact a strike.

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