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SRMC employees to see pay raise
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The union that represents nurses and other health care workers at the University of New Mexico Sandoval Regional Medical Center said it has reached an agreement that would give union workers a 3% pay raise.
The United Health Professionals of New Mexico said it will continue its efforts to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement. Other hospital employees received a 3% pay raise earlier this month.
“The union is agreeing to take the 3% raise to get things moving. The nurses and other health professionals work just as hard as all those in UNM’s other facilities, and they deserve a raise as well and deserve a partner at the bargaining table to negotiate patient care improvements,” Shane Youtz, UHPNM’s attorney, said in a statement.
Samantha Hines, a nurse at UNM SRMC, said she wants to try negotiate to improve patient and healing conditions.
“Patient conditions are worker conditions. When there are an appropriate number of nurses, say, in the emergency department or on the medical-surgical floors, then patients get the quality of care they need. Providing a decent wage is one of many ways to make that happen,” Hines said.
