On August 5, we bargained with Providence Centralia. Although we have not met in more than a month, we were able to take the wins from the Providence Centralia Technical and Providence St. Peter’s Hospital bargaining tables and apply them to our unit’s bargain. Therefore, it is so important that we stand UNITED with our coworkers at PCH and PSPH. We were able to reach tentative agreements on Management rights, Union representation, Union membership, definitions, and leaves of absence.

The remaining articles are hours of work/overtime, rates of pay, premium pay, EIB/PTO, health programs, employment status, retirement plan, and duration of the agreement.

These articles are mostly all economic. Although we are close on a few issues within these articles the biggest differences between our proposals and Providence’s proposal are the following:

Hours of Work/Overtime

• UNION
  If you work beyond your scheduled work day or more than 40 hours in a week, you would receive daily and weekly overtime

• You will receive 1 ½ your rate of pay for hours worked beyond your FTE

• Caregivers will have two out of four weekends off in a month. Caregivers who usually have weekends off or who usually work weekends should not be affected

• PROVIDENCE
  Overtime only applies if you work more than 40 hours in a week

Rates of Pay

• UNION
  Year 1: Wage scale with 26 steps; everyone receives a 4.5% increase and in some cases caregivers will receive up to a 15% increase because their wage rates are below market
  Year 2 and Year 3: Everyone receives a 3% across the board increase (cost-of-living increase) and anniversary increase

• PROVIDENCE
  Year 1: 1.5% wage increase
  Year 2: wage scale with an increase to “minimum, midpoint, maximum” ranges
  Year 3: 1.5% wage increase and anniversary increase
  Year 4: 1.5% wage increase and anniversary increase

Premium Pay

• UNION
  Increases to all differentials

• PROVIDENCE
  No increases to any differentials

EIB/PTO

• UNION
  100% Employer-covered Employee only health insurance

• PROVIDENCE
  Continuing reduced PTO plan and will not bring back EIB

Health Programs

• UNION
  Continuation of current retirement plan

• PROVIDENCE
  Will not spell out the terms of the current plan and can change the plan from time to time

Retirement Plan

• UNION
  Continuation of current retirement plan

• PROVIDENCE
  Will not spell out the terms of the current plan and can change the plan from time to time

Duration

• UNION
  Contract expires in three years. Typically, Union contracts are three year agreements

• PROVIDENCE
  Contract expires in 2025

We have another bargaining session on August 10 where we will be digging deep on the remaining articles to come to an agreement. Providence has indicated that they wish to finalize the PCH Tech and PSPH Tech contracts this month but has not indicated that for our unit. It is important that we are not left behind and we get a similar contract to PCH Tech and PSPH Techs.

To show our UNITED power, please sign onto the strike pledge card which we will be presenting to Providence later on in August!

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