Union leaders at the safety-net hospital in Austin say workers are striking after hospital management failed to address wages and unsafe staffing levels.
Members of the Service Employees International Union chant during a press conference outside Loretto Hospital in Austin on Wednesday, July 19, 2023.
Loretto is a safety-net hospital in the predominantly Black community of Austin. Many of its patients are on Medicaid, a state and federally funded health insurance program for people with low incomes and/or disabilities.Union leaders say workers are striking after hospital management failed to address wages and unsafe staffing levels. Workers also want Juneteenth as a holiday. Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021, celebrating Black slaves being freed in Texas after the Civil War ended.
“If union members strike at 7:00am, it is solely because the SEIU wants impractical first year wage increases,” Loretto said in the statement early Monday morning. “The strike will be about money, not patient safety. ... The SEIU’s demands far exceed the hospital’s current economic reality and eliminates our ability to provide wage equity for all hospital employees, including union and non-union.”
“These workers worked through record inflation in the past two years ... We want to bring them on par with what we consider the market to be,” she said. Lynda Robinson, a mental health specialist at Loretto said staff deal with violent patients every day. The staff shortage has meant more violence and injuries, she said during a news conference last week.
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