New Contract for Our Lady of Fatima Hospital

The United Nurses & Allied Professionals (UNAP), Local 5110, represents about 300 registered nurses at Our Lady of Fatima. Members voted 200 to 3 to ratify the agreement, which includes raises that will amount to 15 percent over the contract’s term; increases in shift-differential and on-call pay; dental coverage; a prescription-drug benefit; and tuition assistance, UNAP said.
“We set two goals for ourselves in this round of negotiations: to improve staffing and to secure a competitive wage and benefit package,” Lynn Blais, a registered nurse and the president of UNAP Local 5110, said in announcing the contract’s ratification. “With the unwavering support of our membership, we were able to approve both.”
Staffing levels had been a sticking point in the longrunning negotiations, the union noted. The new “groundbreaking” agreement will give nurses at Fatima “the right to appeal to a neutral arbitrator if the hospital continues to staff fewer nurses than the numbers that they have reported to the [R.I.] Department of Health, except in limited extenuating circumstances,” UNAP said.
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Lynn Blais is the local 5110 President.