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Nurses and nonprofit contractors urge supervisors to honor staffing commitments and raise nonprofit contract escalators
Summary
Nurses and nonprofit service providers testified at the budget committee hearing that chronic understaffing at San Francisco General Hospital and flat contract funding for nonprofits jeopardize services; nurses asked the board to fund negotiated nursing hires and nonprofits asked for a 3% cost-of-doing-business increase.
Representatives of San Francisco nurses and nonprofit social-service providers asked the Budget & Finance Committee on June 20 to fund staffing commitments and larger contract escalators to keep frontline services intact.
Nurses' negotiator Nato Green, joined by hospital nurses, recalled recent contract negotiations and said the mayor agreed to add nursing positions to meet…
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