Negotiation Update #7

No New Contract

“Our willingness to offer a wage increase depends on our ability to realize cost savings elsewhere in the contract.”

In other words, they want you to subsidize your wage increase by giving something up (TAKE-AWAYS!).

Still proposing:

• Elimination of double time
• 2-year contract
• Forcing new RNs into FLEX
• Omnicell fingerprinting

Still refusing:

• Reasonable salary increase
• New step
• Frozen parking rates
• Management nurses taking a patient care assignment 4 times/year (to ensure that they understand the implications of their staffing decisions)

Contract extended until our next session on November 21st.