8/20 Bargaining Update

Links
Video update: https://youtu.be/sXwjtqP-VmE
Proposals: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TxrZqRZphZcsMHyoSt93FKWPLEhCuzUe?usp=sharing
Strike Auth Commitment: https://form.jotform.com/251803636089159
Econ summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HkZFPC2r4Bg80lmrAR9wNGE0CkRO5GzeTfkXk2UpObM/edit?usp=sharing
Non-econ Summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MURBLj0XNkLx7g1eoq2l2TJTL5ZdWy5nGNZs1W2oGFY/edit?usp=sharing

We made progress today! Allina has refused for over a year to maintain current working conditions for Urgent Care providers. However, today we were able to come much closer to scheduling language for current providers that keeps the maximum number of sites as 3, keeps maximum weekend shifts for .5-.59 FTE providers as 2, and prevents providers from being unilaterally floated outside of their template. Allina’s current proposal does allow them to offer jobs to new hires in Urgent Care with templates of up to 4 sites and 3 weekend shifts for .5-.59 FTE providers.

The outstanding Urgent Care issues are the last pieces of the scheduling language we have not come to agreement on. Within this article, we have bargained for much more control over our own schedules for all providers. If you need to change your FTE, or change your recurring template, under our current proposal you will now have much more ability to do so than before we unionized.

We are also now very close on a final agreement on our Safety Article as well as our On Call Article. Our On Call Article gives the providers in the call group the ability to decide who will be taking call in the group and also provides new protection against getting inappropriate calls. Within our Safety Article we don’t have everything we had wanted (security guards in clinics for example) but among other benefits we do have the ability to stop seeing dangerous, threatening, and harassing patients.

We are happy to finally see some movement from Allina again and we will keep working to get to a fair contract. We hope that they continue to make progress on the few outstanding non-economic issues and show willingness to work together on the economic sections of the contract as well.

We bargain again on September 3.