Negotiations Update
STATEMENT FROM THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL REGARDING UNION NEGOTIATIONS
To date, negotiation teams for The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the SEIU 1199E-DC have attended twenty-four negotiation sessions. There are several sessions scheduled for the month of May.
There is currently no contract.
To date, we have not received a strike notice.
Non-Economic Issues
There are thirty-two (32) non-economic issues that have been discussed. To date there are:
- Eleven (11) Tentative Agreements
- Five (5) Pending: Tentative Agreements
- Four (4) Withdrawn Proposals
- Twelve (12) Final Proposals made by the Hospital as of April 29, 2004
Economic Issues
Wages, Benefits, Training and Education, and Pension
- Union Proposed on 13th Session, March 1
- Hospital Countered on 14th Session, March 9
- Union’s Counter Proposal, April 1
At the first negotiation session, the Union listed the following goals for these contract negotiations:
- Adequate wages
- Enhancements to the retirement programs
- Fully paid employer provided healthcare insurance
- Retiree health coverage
- Creation of a Taft-Hartley fund for training and education programs
- Increasing access of union representatives
- Elimination of Outsourcing and subcontracting within the Facilities Department.
