-
The best contract in the Western New York market right now is the one ratified between CWA and Catholic Health last year.
-
Since mid-February, Catholic Health’s long-term care facility operations have been backed up by some unique temporary staff – members of the New York National Guard. They are now present at the Mercy Nursing Facility at Our Lady of Victory in Lackawanna, Father Baker Manor in Orchard Park, and McAuley Residence in Tonawanda. They are serving in a wide variety of roles, except for providing direct medical care.
-
Catholic Health has announced it is temporarily suspending visitations at its hospitals, with few exceptions, beginning Friday.
-
Catholic Health System is celebrating the formal opening of its new helipad at Mount St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston. It’s an asset that officials say will save precious moments in those few occasions when it’s necessary to move patients to another center for advanced care.
-
After three days of voting, more than 2,500 Communications Workers of America employees at Mercy, Kenmore Mercy and Sisters St. Joseph hospitals have approved six new four-year union contracts.
-
There's a tentative deal between the Catholic Health and the Communications Workers of America to end the five-week-long strike at Mercy Hospital in South Buffalo. The deal will also cover various units at other Catholic Health hospitals.
-
"If they come to one-to-four, this ends. It's that simple," said Communications Workers of America Area Director Debora Hayes.
-
Things have heated up even further, as the strike at Buffalo's Mercy Hospital lingers into its second month. Catholic Health is cutting off health insurance for the strikers, in a move the union said is an attempt to intimidate workers into a bad contract.
-
Outside Mercy Hospital, strikers march in circles, dampened by the continuing rain. Inside, Catholic Health CEO Mark Sullivan defends management's position.
-
The president and CEO of Catholic Health says he remains optimistic that the hospital system and the union representing its striking nurses will reach terms soon on a fair contract. Mark Sullivan provided an update on behalf of the hospital system during day six of the CWA 1133 strike outside Mercy Hospital in Buffalo.