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Nurses with the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement said Sunday that they have voted to ratify new contracts with Stanford Health Care and Palo Alto-based Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, claiming that 75 percent of the more than 6,000 members voted in support.
According to the committee, which is a union representing nurses at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Hospital and their satellite facilities, the new contracts include four percent annual wage increases across the board in 2025, 2026 and 2027.
The union said the new contracts also include measures to improve scheduling sustainability, including options for shift coverage when a nurse’s PTO is depleted, confirmation that nurses may have improved flexibility in weekend scheduling, three weeks’ notice of upcoming schedules to ensure nurses can plan around work, and a new holiday, the day after Thanksgiving.
Additionally, according to the union, the new contracts include protections related to new technology including artificial intelligence which state that new technology is not intended to be used to eliminate nurses’ role in the delivery of care and cannot supplant the nurses’ clinical judgment.
“When we began negotiating our new contracts, our goal was to make sure talented, dedicated CRONA nurses could stay in the Bay Area and continue to provide expert care to our patients for years to come, especially during this challenging moment for healthcare providers,” CRONA President Colleen Borges, a registered nurse at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, said in a statement.
Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital are part of Stanford Medicine.
