Bargaining Update #09: We Deserve Better!

Apr 25

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Our bargaining team showed incredible dedication today…

…continuing to make strong progress by bringing together proposals on several crucial topics. These include Just Cause Discipline, the Grievance process, Layoff language, Seniority, Job Bidding, Types of Employees (FT/PT/On-call), Hours of Work and Overtime, as well as Computer Access during paid time.

During the April 23rd bargaining session, your team made great strides in addressing non-economic proposals, and we’ve now passed most of these to management for a response. Our focus remains on pushing management toward agreement on these foundational issues, so we can move forward to tackling the more critical economic matters, wages and benefits.

From the Table:
Legacy Still Says NO to Fair Pay!

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been over a month since our bargaining team presented a comprehensive economic proposal aimed at bringing Mt. Hood’s compensation and benefits in line with regional standards.
Here are some of our key economic proposals:

  
        OUR PROPOSAL
        MANAGEMENT RESPONSE
        CURRENT
      
        WAGES
        25% pay increase at ratification, create wage scale for anniversary advancements
        ✘ NO: Management will unilaterally determine if you will receive a pay increase
        UNCLEAR
      
        EDUCATION FUND
        Join other Legacy systems in greater access in, career counseling, reimbursement, and programs for all union members to advance your career.
        ✘ NO RESPONSE!
        
          Courses must pass Legacy’s “necessary” review to qualify, must maintain FT or PT to get reimbursed.

          FT: reimbursed 75% of tuition up to $2,000 a year

          PT: reimbursed 75% of tuition up to $1,000 a year

          Supplemental/On Call do not qualify.
        
        HEALTHCARE
        Fully paid healthcare, no monthly premiums and low co-pays
        ✘ NO: Keep the current healthcare plan
        High monthly premiums, high Co-pays — many Legacy healthcare workers & their families have to rely on OHP to get the care they need.

In addition, we’ve put forward proposals for increases in current differentials and introduced new ones, including shift, longevity, bilingual, lead, and more. Your bargaining team is eager and ready to move forward with the economic discussions. If you share this priority and support the direction your team is taking, or if you’d like to learn more, we encourage you to stop by and connect with us. Together, we can continue to make progress toward a strong contract.

Management has not yet responded in writing or meaningfully engaged in economics discussions.

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