April 20th, 2021
Ambulatory bargaining update #5 (April 20, 2021)
Fellow NUHW members, It was a quick session today, but an important one. We presented our economic proposals including our wage scales, compensation article and benefits package. Based on our members’ feedback we have proposed a wage scale that not only goes up every year (like our co-workers in the Hospitals do) but also brings […]
April 13th, 2021
Keck/Norris bargaining update #8 (April 13, 2021)
My dearest fellow NUHW members, We had our seventh bargaining session with USC and their EBG law team today. Several economic proposals were made. USC chose not to respond to them. Adam C. Abrahms of EBG Law said USC did not want to respond to our proposals until agreements were made for the non-economic articles […]
April 12th, 2021
Keck/Norris bargaining update #7 (April 12, 2021)
Hi everyone, Today we continued to discuss important items regarding seniority, layoff protections, union access, steward’s rights and release time for union stewards. We moved closer on our union representation article but still do not have total agreement. We also managed to come much closer to an agreement on our reduction in force article which […]
April 9th, 2021
Ambulatory bargaining update #4 (April 9, 2021)
Hello NUHW members, Today was our fourth session with the company and we continued to discuss important items regarding seniority, layoff protections, union access, steward’s rights and release time for union stewards. Although we did not reach any agreements, we are closer to agreement on these issues but still not there. The Employer agreed to […]
April 8th, 2021
Ambulatory bargaining update #3 (April 8, 2021)
Dear NUHW members, We had our third session today. We are focused on addressing non-economic issues, and made progress. We are closer to agreement on Article 5 Job Vacancies – where the employer withdrew their proposal to prohibit employees from applying to new positions if they have disciplines in their file. The employer also moved […]