With almost 200 items on our bargaining team’s proposal tracker, it’s a challenge to keep up with everything that our union has brought to OHSU during this year’s negotiations. Now that we’re in the phase where we’re trading counterproposals, it’s a great time to go back over some of our proposals you may have missed. In this post, we’re going to focus on some of our proposals that we believe have the potential to make a huge difference in the lives of our members, our families and our communities.
Read MoreToday the teams began the process of passing counterproposals back and forth. While we remain quite far apart on some proposals and await responses on others, we’re pleased that the teams reached several tentative agreements and made good progress on other proposals.
Read MoreInstead of the small, private forum with OHSU leaders that we asked for earlier, this forum is being held for a public audience, to include elected officials and journalists. We will send our members an invitation to join virtually to show our Richmond coworkers the support that OHSU’s “leaders” thus far have not. OHSU’s executives and Richmond managers can attempt to ignore employees and attack their credibility, but they cannot silence brave employees who are willing to share their stories.
Read MoreAs much as we need to fight to protect the right to vote in today's political environment, we must also engage in voting itself. Oregon has a statewide primary election coming up in May.
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