The Indiana Registered Nurses Association have submitted a petition with 900 signatures asking the IRMC board of directors to tell their negotiation team to “adopt a different, less aggressive attitude at the bargaining table going forward.”
According to a news release from the IRNA, the petition expresses support for the nurses in the contract negotiations that have been going on for a year and a half. In a joint letter from IRNA President Kathy Wolfe, IRNA statewide healthcare PSEA union president Sandi Zaubek, PSEA-Central West Region teachers President Maria Heinrich, and PSEA-Central West schools support staff president Kathy Martz, they say that the board should, in their words, “start treating these nurses with the dignity and appreciation they deserve at the bargaining table.”
In a brief statement, the Indiana Regional Medical Center said their focus “has been and will continue to be on the voices of the 380 nurses who have not been given the opportunity to vote on a contract in nearly two years.”
Nurses are still working under the terms of the contract that expired in October of 2018.
