Our union has been bargaining with OHSU for more than two months. We have our first mediation session in 12 days. Our contract expires in 49 days. And OHSU hasn’t responded at all to 61 of our proposals, including those that are most important to our members.
Read MoreWith 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.
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