Honk for Hospital Safety!
Thursday, June 11
4 p.m.
Meet at 100 Oak St.
Caravan to Highland Hospital
Join your elected Bargaining Team members, your Contract Action Team members, and your co-workers for a rally and car caravan to demand fair bargaining, proper testing, and public accountability across AHS.
RSVP to the MRC:
1-877-687-1021
We've won some major victories, but we need to keep pushing management for adequate PPE, testing, and staffing to handle this pandemic and a fair contract. In addition, the AHS Board of Trustees recently spent over $90,000 on a report by some corporate health care consultants who suggested solutions to AHS’s problems could be to privatize the entire system and cut pay by 5%.This is one more reason why we need to keep up the pressure on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to take over AHS and get rid of our current failed administration.
We fought for and won a major grievance victory: AHS management had unfairly removed a 3% pay differential for mid-level practitioners (Physicians Assistants and Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioners) in certain departments, but after powerful testimony from our members:
The letters that were issued to stop the differential will be rescinded
The affected mid-level practitioners will be paid properly going forward
They will also receive six months of retroactive back pay (the maximum allowable in our contract)
Patient Access Services fought for and won improvements to their uniform requirements:
The stipend went up to $150 (from $120), and was paid the first week of June
All shoes that meet the general grooming and appearance policy are now acceptable
T-shirt Fridays are now allowed!
In February of 2021, we will meet and confer with management on these issues
AHS is forcing parking attendants and security guards to try to do employee coronavirus screening. This is unfair to the workers, who aren't trained and equipped to do this work, and it's unsafe for our members. We are fighting back to build a well-thought-out Infectious Disease Plan to keep our members and our community safe, and we are demanding AHS employ clinical staff to do this important work.
Other recent wins include the following. We are finalizing a settlement agreement for a PBX (phone system) operator who was unfairly forced to work out of her job classification for eight months. Through a Joint Labor Management collaboration, we got a CNA back to work after being involuntarily terminated for a lapse in licensing. An Imaging Specialist Clerk worked with her union rep to get the Personal Emergency Sick Leave (PESL) she had filed for and been denied.
These wins are just the tip of the iceberg. Together, we can and will win much more. But it will take all of us getting involved, and a great opportunity to do that is our car caravan on June 11.
Keep an eye on AHSFight.org for more updates and opportunities to get involved! Click here to download the flier to post at your worksite.