April 16 Red Book Negotiations Update

The union Negotiating Committee met with Essentia Health today.  We were able to wrap up the initial, non-economics portion  of negotiations (stuff relating to contract language clean-up and clarification), and we presented our economic proposals.  The company didn’t respond to our economic proposals yet, but we expect that to happen at the next bargaining session on April 27.  We’re eager to continue to move forward after such a long delay in negotiations!

Below is a photo of the notice that Essentia is posting around campus.  They are posting this as part of the settlement related to our Unfair Labor Practices charge that we filed with the NLRB.

And finally, we want to urge you to keep your eyes open for future updates that we will be distributing via the WIN (Workers Information Network) folks, and/or through our text alerts, that you can sign up for by texting “redbook” to 77820.