Your elected SEIU 1021 Bargaining Team has met with management multiple times over the past months. Our contract with AHS expires on May 31 and we are working with a sense of urgency. We’ve made proposals to help AHS recruit and retain workers, and make AHS a safe, healthy place for both patients and workers.

We’ve proposed:

• Wage increases that make AHS more able to solve our recruitment and retention crisis
• Longevity pay for permanent and SAN workers
• A massive safety proposal to protect workers at the worksites and in the parking lots and areas around the facilities
• Additional holidays
• Reducing weekend work requirements for long-term employees
• Improvements to overtime language
• Improvements to bereavement leave
• Increasing and improving personal leave
• Increases to training pay and tighter controls on who can provided training
• Language increasing the union’s ability to represent workers with shop stewards and chapter officers
• Requiring management to provide grievance settlements in a timely fashion
• Increasing reporting pay, and much more!

AHS management has proposed:

• Weakening our union, by eliminating a grievance step, making it harder to resolve things at the lowest level
• Giving management more time in responding to grievances
• Eliminating all time and attendance protections by deleting two sideletters
• Making it more difficult for workers to transfer within AHS, hurting the ability to recruit and retain
• Increased management rights across AHS

We need to show management that we’re united and that we demand a fair contract by May 31! Rally at John George on Wednesday, March 20 at noon— RSVP with the MRC at 877-687-1021.

Management. Isn’t. Listening. 

We need to show them how serious the staffing and safety crisis is, and how seriously we take it. Rally with us on March 20 at noon at John George to show that we’re united and we won’t back down until we Fix AHS.

Lunch & shirts provided.