About 1,000 nurses at Magee-Womens Hospital are set to decide whether they’d like to be represented by SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania later this month. The organizing effort at one of the region’s leading labor and delivery centers is the latest in a growing labor movement among health care professionals in Pennsylvania.
“A primary tenet in nursing is patient advocacy, and forming our union is about having a voice in a large corporate healthcare system to fulfill that mission,” said Mariah Park, a labor and delivery nurse at Magee.
On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board set voting dates for Aug. 19 and 23 for the 1,000 nurses at Magee…