Christ Hospital Local 5186 Bargaining Update June 23, 2018
Changing our course of action
We will not be holding our picket originally planned for June 27th
In response to management’s commitment to resolve several key issues, we are cancelling our informational picket originally scheduled for June 27th. As a show of good faith, we are withdrawing our legal notice to picket on that date. We expect good faith in return and have informed management that we may deliver a ten-day notice for a strike or informational picketing if a fair agreement cannot be reached by the 30th.
In the last week, management has agreed to maintain the protections for charge nurses to not have a patient assignment and, the following improvements in our contract:
- Bonus Shifts at $20 per hour in the contract
- No employee can be downstaffed more than 24 hours per four week schedule
- Pay for your entire shift when taking an M/educational day (up to 12 hours)
- A cap on required repayment for the nurse tuition training program (currently there is no limit)
Management has also agreed to
remove proposals that would have done the following:
- Taken away floating employees with 25+ years of service
- Reduced on-call pay from 4 to 3 hours minimum if called in
- Eliminated float pay
- Allowed management to float you any time during your shift
- Allowed management to downstaff you any time during your shift
- Allowed management to downstaff you while keeping an agency nurse on
Management gave our union an initial economic proposal. It does not meet our needs, but both parties agreed to bring in a federal mediator to help us reach an agreement by June 30th.
What we’re fighting for:
We know a final agreement must meet our needs on these key subjects:
- Safe staffing for our patients
- Quality, affordable health insurance
- An end to the seven-year freeze of experience wage increases (step movement)
- Weekend and critical care pay differentials
- Protection against outsourcing of union work and quality jobs
