Steward Health Care, workers reach new contract

Boston-based Steward Health Care System has signed a contract with the union representing about 5,000 of its hospital workers, The Boston Globe reports.

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The contract, which runs from Nov. 1, 2016, to Oct. 31, 2019, maintains health benefits and offers non-clinical staff and hospital technicians a 5.5 percent raise over three years.

This means workers at five Massachusetts-based Steward Hospitals — Carney Hospital in Dorchester, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton, Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, Norwood (Mass.) Hospital and Morton Hospital in Taunton — will have a $15 per hour minimum wage by November 2018, according to the report.

Steward workers are represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.

 

 

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