We are a unionized team of 70 neurodiagnostic technologists. We have been in union negotiations for nearly 3 months. At this point our contract expires Monday and we will not be renewing once again to continue our talks. We plan to start striking indefinitely.
We have stalled over a 1.8% raise over the next 3 years, and no offers on our retirement requests. They are also cutting anniversary raises. Every negotiation in the past decade we have come out with 8-9% raises over 3 years. This year, with inflation at an all time high they are basically asking us to take a pay cut.
Mind you – we are the people on the field providing field neurodiagnostic care to ICU patients after:
- cardiac and respiratory arrests, which with COVID increased exponentially.
- stroke
- hemorrhages
- encephalopathy/encephalitis
- status epilepticus
- non-accidental trauma in children
- and much more
On top of that, we provide the technical component for epilepsy evaluation and epilepsy surgery. We run over 6000 continuously monitored EEGs (24/7/365) annually and over 2000 routine EEGs. We are going through the same staffing shortages as the rest of the healthcare field. We are burnt out and fed up.
We could use some help with creative wording for signs, so I am reaching out to you all.