Come to a monthly info meeting to get updates on contract negotiations!
What's Happening in Contract Negotiations? August Information Meetings
Contract negotiations may move extremely quickly this time -- come find out why, and put in your two cents about health insurance, earned time, raises, the pension, and job security. The SHARE Negotiating Team wants you to know what's going on, and we want your thoughts. (For more info, see post below.) Please come to a SHARE Information meeting.
Morgan 8/13 11:30-1:30 3rd Floor Conference Room
University 8/14 11:30-1:30 Benedict EA3-101
CBO 8/15 12:00-2:00 4th Floor Conference Room
Memorial 8/17 11:30-1:30 Memorial 1 Conference Room
Farmhouse 8/21 12:00-1:00 Basement Conference Room
Biotech III 8/21 11-12:30 Seminar Room
WBC 8/22 12:00-2:00 Willow Conference Room 2nd Flr
Tri-River 8/27 11:30-1:30 Community Room
Hahnemann 8/28 12:00-1:30 2nd Floor Conference Room
ACC 8/28 11:30-1:30 4th Floor Conf Room, 4-0001
We will add more locations to this list as we are able to schedule them. In September, we will have another complete round of Information Meetings. Please contact the SHARE office if you would like a meeting in your location, and keep your eye on the blog for additional information.
Contract Extension Ratified
Our contract extension is now official. 1,101 SHARE members voted yes, 55 SHARE members voted no. That's a 95% yes vote, for those of you who like to keep track. Thanks to all those who turned out to vote, whichever way you voted -- it's important. And a thanks again to our negotiating team, who worked hard to get this Agreement.
The raise will probably show up in the March 22 paycheck, but we'll let you know as soon as we have that officially confirmed by HR and Payroll.
Contract Extension Vote this Tuesday, March 6
LOCATION TIME ROOM
ACC 7a -12p 4th Flr Conf Rm
Barre 12p -1p Conf Rm
67 Belmont 12p -12:30p
Biotech III 11:45a - 2p Seminar Rm 227
CBO 8a -10a File Rm
Farmhouse 12:30p -1:30p Basement Conf Rm
Hahnemann 12p - 1:30p 2nd Flr Conf Rm
Home Health 8:30a -10a & 3p - 4p Break Rm
Lincoln St
Emp Health 10a - 10:30a
Memorial 6:30a - 4p Mem 1 Conf Rm
Morgan 11a -11:30a
PTC 3p - 4p
Family Med 8a - 8:30a Break Rm
Radiology 7a - 7:30a Break Rm
Tri-River 12p -1:30p Community Rm
University 6:30a - 4p Cafeteria (back right corner)
WBC 12p - 2:30p Elm Conf Rm
Voting is limited to SHARE members.
Please call the office if you would like a membership card.
About the Contract Extension . . .
Hi all. A mailing has been sent out to each SHARE member at their home regarding the Contract Extension proposal. Everyone should receive that some time this week. The mailing includes a description of the raises and the pension committee. You will be able to calculate your own raises thanks to enclosed directions. The mailing also includes a quick update regarding what we know about layoffs (so far, that's nothing that isn't also in the newspaper.) There is a list of voting times and locations for the Contract vote, which will take place on Tuesday, March 6th. And there's a list of Information Meeting times and dates. Information meetings have already begun. Please help us get word out in particular to those locations whose lunchtime info meetings are happening this week:
Wed Feb 15 Sleep Center 12:30-1:30
Thurs Feb 16 Barre 12-1
Thurs Feb 16 Shrewsbury Medicine 11-1 (Break Room)
Fri Feb 17 Memorial 11:30-1:30 (Memorial 1 Conference Room)
If you have questions or comments about the Contract Extension, or would like help calculating your own raise, please come to one of the scheduled Information Meetings, or give us a call in the SHARE office (508-929-4020).
Thanks everyone! And happy Valentine's Day!
Wed Feb 15 Sleep Center 12:30-1:30
Thurs Feb 16 Barre 12-1
Thurs Feb 16 Shrewsbury Medicine 11-1 (Break Room)
Fri Feb 17 Memorial 11:30-1:30 (Memorial 1 Conference Room)
If you have questions or comments about the Contract Extension, or would like help calculating your own raise, please come to one of the scheduled Information Meetings, or give us a call in the SHARE office (508-929-4020).
Thanks everyone! And happy Valentine's Day!
Contract Negotiations--Tentative Agreement!
We are happy to announce that we have a tentative agreement with UMass Memorial. The agreement would extend our current contract until September 30, 2012, with:
- A Raise for all SHARE members for this year
- The creation of a labor-management Pension Committee
- No other changes in the contract
Details coming in the mail:
We will be sending every SHARE member a letter with the details of the agreement, a list of information meetings, and locations and times to vote on the proposed contract extension. If a majority of the SHARE members voting vote “Yes”, then the agreement goes into effect.
The Raise:
The letter you get will explain the raise in detail, show the new ranges, and allow you to figure out exactly what you would get. There are two parts to the raise: an across-the-board base increase that moves everyone in SHARE up along with their grade, plus a step increase/bonus for everyone hired before 10/1/2011. The step increase gives SHARE members credit for another year of service, and moves them closer to their grade max. The bonus is for any part of the step increase that would be over max. The bonus would be based on the number of hours paid in 2011, including overtime.
In order to get a big enough raise, we would agree to have it go into effect January 1 instead of October 1. In effect, we would trade part of the retro we are owed for a bigger base increase.
The Pension Committee:
One of UMass Memorial’s big priorities is to reduce the cost of benefits. As part of this effort, the management negotiating team made a proposal about making changes to the pension. The SHARE negotiating team could not negotiate about anything that important without a great deal of research and discussion. And we didn't want SHARE members to have to wait that long for a raise. So we made an agreement that would set up a "Joint Pension Reform Committee" to look at the pension, its cost and future sustainability, management’s proposed changes and what effect they would have, and other options.
The committee’s job would be to make a recommendation to the SHARE and management negotiating teams in time for them to negotiate about the pension in our next contract. No changes to the pension would be made in this current extension. Any changes to the pension that might be made in the future would not affect any pension benefit you have already earned.
Questions:
We hope to answer everyone’s questions soon in the letter we send to home, in information meetings, and in one-to-one conversations. Please be patient as we get this information out. We will be in touch soon.
Thank you,
The SHARE Negotiating Team:
Sandy Alafberg
Rob Beatty
Bill Brennan
Sheldon Brown
Rita Caputo
Deb Clark
Kirk Davis
Deb Engvall
Kathy Girouard
Carol Hehir
Jana Hollingsworth
Taylor Morgan
Deb Pawlina
Sharon Pichierri
Joan Powlics
Elisabeth Szanto
Alana Wesson
Contract Negotiations & Information Meetings
SHARE enters contract negotiations with hospital management this week. We'll have an ongoing series of information meetings to keep you up-to-date. This week there will be meetings at the following locations:
We'll add more dates! Keep checking this blog!
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- CBO 5th floor conference room: Tuesday (8/9), noon-1pm
- Memorial conference room 1: Thursday (8/11), 11:30-1:30
We'll add more dates! Keep checking this blog!
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