{"id":108679,"date":"2022-05-26T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T20:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=108679"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:02:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T20:02:54","slug":"unionized-la-county-nurses-reach-tentative-labor-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/05\/26\/unionized-la-county-nurses-reach-tentative-labor-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Unionized LA County nurses reach tentative labor deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_74001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74001\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/AVH-strike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74001\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/AVH-strike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/AVH-strike.jpg 544w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/AVH-strike-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Image courtesy: California Nurse&#8217;s Assoc.]<\/figcaption><\/figure>Days before they were set to walk a picket line, thousands of nurses in the Los Angeles County health care system reached a tentative labor contract that will avert a strike, their union announced Thursday, May 26.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 7,000 nurses represented by the <em>Service Employees International Union Local 721<\/em> were set to conduct a three-day strike beginning June 1, impacting county Department of Health Services, Department of Public Health and Department of Mental Health facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Exact details of the tentative labor pact were not immediate released, but union officials said it &#8220;includes stronger job protections &#8230; and locks in competitive compensation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our L.A. County nurses have made incredible sacrifices on the front line, so we drove a hard bargain,&#8221; David Green, SEIU 721 president, said in a statement. &#8220;This is why it was so important to us to negotiate not just for better compensation but for a real plan that addresses nurse retention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;COVID impacted our ranks, which were already being hit hard by years of underfunding for public health care. Now, we&#8217;ve got a commitment to address this problem and we*ve got the power of our union to make sure the plan materializes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Union members still need to ratify the proposed agreement, with voting expected to begin in early June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days before they were set to walk a picket line, thousands of nurses in the Los Angeles County health care system reached a tentative labor contract that will avert a strike, their union announced Thursday, May 26. Nearly 7,000 nurses represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 721 were set to conduct a three-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":74001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,1499,1496],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108680,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108679\/revisions\/108680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}