Nursing home workers at more than 50 Pennsylvania facilities are expected to receive âhistoric raisesâ after reaching a tentative contract agreement with their operators to avoid a planned strike.
The new deal between the employees and 53 total nursing homes was announced Tuesday by SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania. Each of the previous contracts had expired at the end of June and workers were planning to strike for one day before the agreement was reached.
A spokeswoman for the organization revealed to local media the agreements include âpretty historic raisesâ but didnât say how much. She added most workers havenât received significant wage increases in years.
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90.5 WESA Nursing home workers rally for better working conditions near the Beaver Valley Heathcare and Rehabilitation Center on Tuesday, May 25, 2021.
More than a dozen nursing home workers gathered on the side of a winding, rural road outside the Beaver Valley Healthcare and Rehab Center on Tuesday afternoon to protest working conditions at the facility.
Georgetown Road in Beaver Falls doesn’t get a lot of traffic, but the demonstration was one of many taking place across Pennsylvania.
“No better time than contract season,” said nurse’s aide Dawn Trufley. According to SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, some 4,500 nursing home staff at more than 80 facilities across the state will negotiate new union contracts this year.