Federal mediator involved in Ascension Joliet nurses contract talks

Federal mediator involved in Ascension Joliet nurses contract talks

Nurses have turned to state and federal legislators for help as contract talks drag on at Ascension Saint Joseph – Joliet hospital.The nurses’ union and Ascension have met three times with a federal mediator present since a strike combined with a lockout ended on Aug. 26.“They’re moving very slow,” Katherine Soprych, membership chair for the Illinois Nurses Association local in Joliet, said Tuesday of Ascension Health’s negotiating team. “We wis…