Members of our local voted yesterday to reject the tentative agreement and to go on strike. At tomorrow's meeting, your local leaders will discuss what are next steps and how we can prepare for a strike.
This is your opportunity to voice your opinion on the direction of the negotiation team and the future of YOUR contract. Full explanation of the Union’s and the Medical Center’s proposals will be presented.
It may seem hard to believe but negotiations are quickly approaching. Our contract is due to expire in May of 2022. Typically we start negotiations with the hospital around the end of March of 2022.
To date, we have had seven bargaining sessions with management. We have not received any economic proposals from management to date, but the hospital is mentioning once again increasing the cost of health insurance.
This is an incredibly special moment in the history of our local. Our power was shown through our unity. Remember this moment, for it now is the benchmark by which we enforce our contract.
The Ratification Meeting will take place via Zoom and In-person on Tuesday, June 8 at 8AM, 1PM and 8PM. Please hold the date while we reserve a location.
Voting begins tonight for ratification of our new contract with Englewood Health. Below are links to a summary of the agreement, the full tentative agreement and updated wage scales with the new increases added in.
Ratification if we have reached a tentative agreement, it will be presented to members for a vote or Strike Preparation if we don’t have an agreement.
HMH continues to work slowly at the bargaining table, pushing to weaken our contract and lower the bar for our patients by proposing weaker floating standards, flexing, freezing our pension, and replacing across the board raises with merit raises.
Because of circumstances outside of anyone’s control, the Hospital had to postpone our bargaining sessions this week. Management proposed a one month extension of our contract, which we rejected.
To date, we have had six bargaining sessions with management. The following does not represent all proposals on each side. These are preliminary, but represent a priority to address with you at present.
Today we reached a Tentative Agreement for a new contract with the hospital. The membership meetings to VOTE on our new contract is June 3 at 8:30, 1:00, 5:30 and 8pm.