Legacy Mt Hood Bargaining Update #06
Your Bargaining Team continues to hold the line and advocate for you and your families! Many of our top priorities are important for our families, our health and our ability to continue to provide excellent patient care through retention of current staff and recruitment of new staff. Below is a summary of our priorities and where we are at:
✅ Our Bargaining Team Proposal vs
❌ Management Proposal
✅ Increase Wages and Differentials
❌ NO Response
✅ Increase Wages and Differentials
❌ NO RESPONSE
✅ Fully Paid Healthcare
❌ NO RESPONSE
✅ Improvements to Retirement
Increase employer match – Employer match starts after probation (90 days)
❌ Maintain status quo, and employer can change at any time, without bargaining
NO – Match starts after 1 year of employment
✅ Staffing — Those who do the work know the most about improving it!
• Defined process for populating staffing committee (labor picks labor)
• Unit Based Committees (UBC) – Labor and management meet monthly to discuss staffing and develop staffing plans based on needs of their department.
❌ NO — Only willing to do what the law requires
• It is unclear what process would be or if management would pick labor representatives
• No monthly department meetings to hear from you on staffing needs
✅ Education – Join the other Legacy Health Systems in the SEIU joint education fund
❌ NO RESPONSE
