Northwell PAs at LIJ Medical Center picket for higher wages, union contract
The workers, members of 1199SEIU, protested in front of the hospital to bring awareness to their lack of a contract more than a year after voting to join the union. The union, which represents about 160 physician assistants at the New Hyde Park hospital, has been negotiating a first contract since October.
"The PA body at LIJ has just been overlooked and taken for granted for a long time," said Erica Rose, 46, a longtime PA in the hospital’s surgical and intensive care unit who attended the demonstration.
"The same has been happening in negotiations," Rose added.