• Providing real break relief
• Increasing tuition reimbursement ($6k for FT, $4k for PT)
• Three additional holidays (Indigenous Peoples Day, Juneteenth, Veterans Day)

Management’s bargaining team said “no” to:

• Reporting adverse events
• Committing to a deadline for ensuring medical equipment compatibility
• Providing a timeline for addressing HVAC or mold issues
• Notifying the Union when employees are exposed to aerosol transmissible disease
• Providing specialty pay for specialty equipment that is necessary for patient survival

We take patient safety seriously. We won't take management's "no" for an answer!

Changing the call-off process so that staff Nurses would be called off before some outside travelers. 

Proposed changes like this — that would diminish working conditions for union members — are part of the reason why we need to all stay engaged and united in the bargaining process! 

LA Times Article Shows Power of Organized Nurses & 121RN

A front-page  article in Wednesday’s LA Times featured two of your PVHMC colleagues: SEIU 121RN President Leo Perez (ED), and Lynsey Kwon (Tele 6). 

Leo & Lynsey speak to the higher quality of patient care patients receive in California due to the patient advocacy of Union Nurses.

Read the article here. (paywalled at latimes.com)

Check out our hot takes here (Instagram)

When we organize, we win!