Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital Bargaining Update 4

Oct 14

In order to provide quality care to our patients, we need a fair contract that addresses our concerns and gives us a voice on improved staffing and worker safety.

We completed our 4th bargaining session; all proposals for wages, insurance, differentials, new premium pay, retirement, SEIU Ed Fund, PTO, and so much more have been given to management.

Unfortunately, Management did not have a response to the wage proposal we gave them a month ago and instead proposed a 1-year contract which would keep us from maintaining alignment with SEIU 49 SHS Valley workers in the other hospitals. This is unacceptable — we would be starting the process of bargaining again before the ink on this contract is even dry, putting everything we have worked hard for during this bargaining at risk.