Court orders CommonSpirit to include Longmont nurses in future systemwide pay increases

LONGMONT — A U.S. District Court judge for the District of Colorado has issued a temporary injunction prohibiting CommonSpirit, the newly named company that was previously Centura Health, from excluding Longmont United Hospital nurses from future pay increases that apply to other nurses in the health care system.

But even though CommonSpirit/Centura has already provided five pay or benefit increases to other nurses since Longmont nurses filed for inclusion in a union, the judge did not order retroactive pay increases to align with what other nurses are being paid in the system.

As a result, Longmont nurses, unless CommonSpirit bumps pay again,…