INA chief negotiator John Fitzgerald said the company proposal comes close to bringing pay for entry-level nurses to a competitive level but does not do so for middle-tier nurses. He said the Ascension proposal does not compensate the most senior nurses for past pay freezes.
“They missed the mark because they haven’t been negotiating with us for months,” Fitzgerald said. “This is the first formal proposal in four months, and it’s actually worse than their previous informal proposal.”
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