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Registered nurses and other temporary replacement workers requiring clinical licensure who are caring for and serving patients at Mercy Hospital during CWA’s strike are properly credentialed to work in New York State. The New York State Health Department...
» Read MoreCatholic Health hospitals are releasing details about the last offer presented to CWA Locals 1133 and 1168 to help their associates and others understand what is included in the proposal. If ratified, this package would cover more than 2,500 associates...
» Read MoreWhile the hospitals’ bargaining committees and CWA continue to work through staffing, wages and other economic topics, the union continues to conduct activities that do not serve to move the open items on the table to resolution. “Throughout these...
» Read MoreCatholic Health and CWA had a productive, in-person discussion today regarding staffing. This was the parties’ first in-person meeting since CWA walked out of negotiations early Friday morning. Nursing leadership from Kenmore Mercy Hospital, Mercy Hospital...
» Read MoreCatholic Health is still waiting for CWA to provide a formal, written response to its last, comprehensive offer as the union’s strike enters Day 4. Further, CWA has not provided the hospitals with a written proposal or written counter proposal on any major...
» Read MoreCWA Locals 1133 and 1168 have not responded to our last, full economic package, including our staffing proposal. “The hospitals presented a full economic package with written proposals on all open items to the union’s bargaining team,” JoAnn Cavanaugh...
» Read MoreLate Wednesday night, 30 hours before a strike is scheduled to begin at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, the hospital, along with Kenmore Mercy Hospital and St. Joseph Campus, presented a $31 million, comprehensive economic package to CWA. The offer would bring the...
» Read MoreMercy Hospital of Buffalo, in conjunction with the New York State Department of Health, will be suspending Labor & Delivery Services at the hospital beginning at 7:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 29, 2021. Catholic Health will continue to offer Labor...
» Read MoreCWA Local 1133 presented Mercy Hospital of Buffalo with a 10-day notice of its intent to take Mercy Hospital associates away from patients’ bedsides and on strike beginning October 1 at 6:00 a.m. “It is inconceivable that the union would lead essential...
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