Providence Centralia - Union wage rates and benefits differ from Management's proposal
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On August 5, we bargained with Providence Centralia. Although we have not met in more than a month, we were able to take the wins from the Providence Centralia Technical and Providence St. Peter’s Hospital bargaining tables and apply them to our unit’s bargain. Therefore, it is so important that we stand UNITED with our coworkers at PCH and PSPH. We were able to reach tentative agreements on Management rights, Union representation, Union membership, definitions, and leaves of absence.
The remaining articles are hours of work/overtime, rates of pay, premium pay, EIB/PTO, health programs, employment status, retirement plan, and duration of the agreement.
These articles are mostly all economic. Although we are close on a few issues within these articles the biggest differences between our proposals and Providence’s proposal are the following:
Hours of Work/Overtime
UNION
If you work beyond your scheduled work day or more than 40 hours in a week, you would receive daily and weekly overtimeYou will receive 1 ½ your rate of pay for hours worked beyond your FTE
Caregivers will have two out of four weekends off in a month. Caregivers who usually have weekends off or who usually work weekends should not be affected
PROVIDENCE
Overtime only applies if you work more than 40 hours in a week
Rates of Pay
UNION
Year 1: Wage scale with 26 steps; everyone receives a 4.5% increase and in some cases caregivers will receive up to a 15% increase because their wage rates are below market
Year 2 and Year 3: Everyone receives a 3% across the board increase (cost-of-living increase) and anniversary increasePROVIDENCE
Year 1: 1.5% wage increase
Year 2: wage scale with an increase to “minimum, midpoint, maximum” ranges
Year 3: 1.5% wage increase and anniversary increase
Year 4: 1.5% wage increase and anniversary increase
Premium Pay
UNION
Increases to all differentialsPROVIDENCE
No increases to any differentials
EIB/PTO
UNION
100% Employer-covered Employee only health insurancePROVIDENCE
Continuing reduced PTO plan and will not bring back EIB
Health Programs
UNION
Continuation of current retirement planPROVIDENCE
Will not spell out the terms of the current plan and can change the plan from time to time
Retirement Plan
UNION
Continuation of current retirement planPROVIDENCE
Will not spell out the terms of the current plan and can change the plan from time to time
Duration
UNION
Contract expires in three years. Typically, Union contracts are three year agreementsPROVIDENCE
Contract expires in 2025
We have another bargaining session on August 10 where we will be digging deep on the remaining articles to come to an agreement. Providence has indicated that they wish to finalize the PCH Tech and PSPH Tech contracts this month but has not indicated that for our unit. It is important that we are not left behind and we get a similar contract to PCH Tech and PSPH Techs.
To show our UNITED power, please sign onto the strike pledge card which we will be presenting to Providence later on in August!
