This week was a tough one for negotiations between Essentia Health and our union regarding the Red Book contract.
We started off Monday by making substantial movement on our proposals to narrowing down our priorities. We held strong on wages, and provided Essentia Health with the dozens of job offers submitted by the membership. (Thank you!)
On the 24th we again prioritized our proposals. We described in detail why we held to our proposals and how they solve problems for both parties. After that we received a disappointing counter from Essentia on wages and call pay.
Today Essentia informed us that their wage market analysis is not the Union's business, and the current wages are at market value. We ended the day with another disappointing proposal from Essentia, which included a 0.25% increase on wages.
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