{"id":231991,"date":"2025-09-16T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/231991\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T18:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:59:14","slug":"sharp-nurses-rally-for-better-pay-safety-as-contract-deadlines-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/231991\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp nurses rally for better pay, safety as contract deadlines loom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"San<\/a>Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa. <\/p>\n

More than a hundred registered nurses will gather Wednesday at Sharp Healthcare corporate headquarters in San Diego to demand fair pay, treatment and contracts that put patients first.<\/p>\n

The rally is set for 9 a.m. Sept. 17. Nurses and workers plan to meet at the Marriott parking lot at 8651 Spectrum Center Boulevard, and march from there to Sharp\u2019s corporate office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018Sharp Experience\u2019 is propped up by the workers, and the largest group of workers that Sharp has, by far, is nurses,\u201d said Andrea Muir, president of the union affiliate at Sharp. \u201cThere\u2019s no other discipline that even comes close.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you see us fighting for what we feel we deserve, it\u2019s because we are also fighting for what we feel you, the public, deserves from Sharp,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Muir started working at Sharp in 2007, starting on the administration and support services side while she was still attending nursing school. She was eventually hired on as a registered nurse. <\/p>\n

Muir said that unfair policies at Sharp negatively affect nurses and patients alike.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no separation between advocating for the caregivers and advocating for the patients that those caregivers serve,\u201d Muir said. \u201cWithout the caregivers being taken care of, there\u2019s nobody to deliver that care in the health system.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Sharp website<\/a>, more than 18,000 nurses, staff, physicians and volunteers work for the hospital. In 2024, Sharp HealthCare profit increased by $1.1 billion,<\/a> yet the nurses and workers say they have yet to see a corresponding improvement in working conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf nurses are being forced to work in unsafe conditions, they don\u2019t want to work there anymore,\u201d Muir said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t keep those skilled nurses, then the quality goes down, and thereby the safety goes down. Those two things are related. That\u2019s an evidence-based statement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The nurses are represented by the Sharp Professional Nurses Network<\/a>, an affiliate of the United Nurses Associations of California and Union of Health Care Professionals. SPNN began negotiations with Sharp Healthcare on July 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Union contracts expire on Sept. 30, and thousands of registered nurses at Sharp Healthcare have signed a petition calling for management to provide adequate resources needed to care for patients.<\/p>\n

RNs are also asking for better wages, as they say Sharp is not keeping up with the market wages. Because of this, skilled nurses and other workers are choosing to go elsewhere, limiting Sharp in quality and safety. The fewer skilled workers they have, the less they can pass down their knowledge to new nurses and maintain the quality and safety of their practice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Muir, Sharp does the bare minimum state requirement for sick time, while other facilities give their workers double the sick time that Sharp workers get. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey have this insane sick leave policy that, for many reasons, encourages nurses to basically endanger their co-workers and potentially their patients by coming to work sick,\u201d Muir said. \u201cDo I come to work sick because I don\u2019t have enough sick time, or do I stay home and risk discipline and loss of pay?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Sharp Registered Nurses, we stand strong together and will take all necessary actions, in unity, to protect our patients, our profession, and our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

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