A nurse at Saint Mary’s says union members are meeting with the bargaining team this week amid renewed tensions after an email sent out today to nurses by Prime Healthcare was titled “Discriminatory Strike Vote, No Tolerance Policy Harassment.”
“We are currently up for contract negotiations,” the nurse wrote Our Town Reno sharing the email. “Prime Healthcare has refused multiple times to give us safe staffing ratios, safe orientation for new grads (only 6 weeks which is way below standard for training a new nurse) and giving fair wages,” they alleged.
After an overwhelming union vote to strike, the email from Prime Healthcare alleges “the union was potentially suppressing the vote of many of our employees.”…