Providence Hospital Union Bargaining Committee (l-r: Miriam Lexie, Traci Ellithorpe, John McGrath, Olga Mercado, Ryan Quinn, Michelle Reardon)

Today, the union’s bargaining committee presented a package counterproposal to management addressing most of the proposals on the table.  The union team is optimistic that we will achieve strong improvements in the contract that will benefit all of our members at Providence Hospital.

Last week, management offered us a package proposal which included modest wage increases, no changes to MMTP caseloads, improvements to MMTP group productivity rates, an increase to the retirement plan contribution and a few other changes.  The union responded this afternoon with a proposal including fair wage increases for current employees, a higher scale for new employees, lower MMTP caseloads, higher productivity compensation for MMTP groups, and the inclusion of all per diems in the bargaining unit.