Unionized nurses never received promised COVID-19 bonus pay at St. Joseph Medical Center, lawsuit alleges

Unionized nurses never received promised COVID-19 bonus pay at St. Joseph Medical Center, lawsuit alleges

Unionized nurses at St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet never received a promised pandemic-era bonus, the Illinois Nurses Association alleges in a lawsuit filed in federal court Monday. The petition seeks to compel the hospital, its owner Prime Healthcare and former owner Ascension to go to arbitration over the matter. “They made a promise to workers who worked through a pandemic, then they reneged on that promise,” said John Fitzgerald, chief f…