BMH Techs Rally For Higher Wages

By: Tyler Friel

Despite the all-day rain, members of the technical staff at Butler Memorial Hospital were at Diamond Park rallying for a new contract.

The techs recently joined the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals union and are now seeking higher wages and better working conditions.

Techs say that they are seeing a high level of staff turnover and people leaving the hospital.

“Resource cuts have become the norm. Staff are leaving faster than they can be replaced. And the pressure on those of us who remain grows by the day,” says Donnie Geibel,  a longtime Butler Memorial Nuclear Medicine Technologist said in a statement. “Butler Memorial must respect and retain its experienced caregivers. When staffing and institutional knowledge is allowed to dwindle, it’s patient care that suffers.”

There are 235 people on the technical staff at Butler Memorial Hospital.