Membership Updates

Letter to Memorial

Union Siblings! Your Union continues the fight for better working conditions and living wages. We will be back at the table this coming Thursday March 6, 2025. In the meantime, your USW District Director has sent a letter to the CEO of the Memorial Care system which is posted below.

Bargaining Update January 21, 2025

Union Siblings,

On Monday, January 20th, your Bargaining Committee and the Medical Center met for the 20th session for negotiations.  

After some clarifications on both parties on outstanding non-economic articles, the Medical Center maintains their position to limit your rights under Article 7: No Discrimination. We maintain ours: it should be up to YOU whether you should litigate or pursue arbitration in any dispute you may have with the Medical Center. Despite such position, your committee moved forward presented its first economic proposal to the medical center. 

Bargaining Update December 24, 2024

Union Siblings,

This week, we have some updates after last week's negotiations sessions with the hospital. We had additional support from our international union, including our union lawyer, at the table with us. We presented two proposals that we hoped would help us conclude discussions of the non-economic part of our contract. Unfortunately, the hospital continues to insist we accept contract language that would seriously undermine our union and your rights. 

Bargaining Updates December 17, 2024

Good Morning Union Siblings,

Local 2801 would like to share these bargaining updates with you regarding negotiations with Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.

April 7 2021: Tentative Agreement Appendix A

I don’t know what my pay grade is, how can I find that out?

You can find your pay grade by looking at Appendix A of the contract.

You can see here the tentatively agreed to Appendix A (click the pdf link below). The changes shown on Appendix A were detailed in the summary provided in the mailing with your ballot.

For any questions call the Local Union at 562-216-8930 or email [email protected]

April 6, 2021: What happens if the Tentative Agreement is ratified?

We frequently hear the question: “What happens if the Tentative Agreement is ratified?”

March 23, 2021 - Tentative Agreement

Greetings USW Sisters & Brothers:

Your solidarity has made all the difference in the world! We (your Negotiating Committee) met once again with hospital management on Friday (3/19/2021). The results of this protracted negotiations were finally positive. We achieved a Tentative Agreement for a new Labor Contract.

The wage increases achieved are much improved over the previous offer; as we cannot be  treated as second class employees vs. non-union co-workers.

March 11, 2021 – Update on Contract Negotiations

Your Negotiating Committee met with the Hospital all day today to continue negotiations. Much discussion around the Union’s wage proposals took place, but no agreement was reached.

We are scheduled to meet again next week - March 19th. We are hopeful that we will have more substantive information to report following those negotiations.