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Deadline for contract negotiations between the Fletcher
Allen Nurses Union and the Hospital's administration was June 6th.
Bargaining teams from both sides have been at it since December.
No agreement has been reached.
Nurses spent the day picketing in front of the Hospitals main Campus today in Burlington.
They're demanding higher wages, better benefits, lower nurse to patient ratios and more job security.
Nurses say they've seen the financial records and say the hospital is mismanaging its funds.
A hospital spokesperson says, "We're spending money on both phases of patient care, that includes staff and facility. You need to have both , it's not either or."
The nurses plan to picket through Friday.
A community rally is scheduled for Saturday.
In the meantime, they say they'll meet with the administration any time, any where to resolve contract disputes.
If no agreement is reached by July 5th, nurses says they'll file a 10 day notice to strike.
Wednesday, 6/18/03
Fifty hospital employees got their pink slips Thursday
at Fletcher Allen Health Care. ... mostly unrelated to patient care.
The cuts at Fletcher Allen include expenses like medical supplies and professional travel. Also, doctors and managers will take a pay cut, including the CEO himself. And probably the most painful, job cuts. Fifty employees are laid off and another 78 unfilled positions will be eliminated. That's a total of 128 jobs, just 2.5% of Fletcher Allen's over five thousand person workforce.
Colodny warns that even with these cuts, Fletcher Allen is still vulnerable.
Colodny is alluding to the tense contract negotiations underway with the new nurses union. A federal mediator is on the way. The union says if both parties negotiate in good faith, there will be no need for a strike.
The hospital hopes to improve the bottom line by million.
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Fletcher Allen Health Care has announced a resolution
to a dispute with its registered nurses: A secret ballot union election.
In June, nurses rallied at City Hall in Burlington, demanding better working conditions and better care for patients.
Since then, the majority of the hospital's 700 nurses have signed petitions in support of unionizing.
The National Labor Relations Board will step in and conduct the secret ballot vote on October 2nd and 3rd.
The last time Fletcher Allen nurses voted to unionize in October 1998, the vote failed to pass.
The vote was counted 567 to 423 against representation by the American Federation of Teachers.
Wednesday, 8/28/02
Following staunch opposition from Fletcher Allen Health
Care nurses, the hospital reinstated a nurse Thursday who was fired in mid-April for allegedly violating hospital policy.
The firing of registered nurse Marley Skiff drew complaints from the nurses' union that the move was prompted by her role as a union contract negotiator. Skiff was fired for giving phone numbers of Fletcher Allen employees to a union seeking to represent hospital staff, nurse and union representative Jennifer Henry said last week. The nurses' union argued that giving out phone numbers is a practice the hospital has employed for other purposes.
The union would not comment Thursday on Skiff's reinstatement, said Andrew Tripp, an organizer with the Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals. Skiff did not return a telephone message left at her home Thursday evening.
Hospital Interim Chief Executive Officer Edwin Colodny said in a statement Thursday that further review revealed that "the policy in question has not been consistently applied."
Last Thursday night April 24, an estimated 200 nurses,
local leaders, and community members held a candlelight vigil outside of Fletcher Allen CEO Ed Colodny's home in support of Marley Skiff, RN, who was recently terminated by Fletcher Allen for union activity. Fletcher Allen RNs and supporters have demanded that Skiff be reinstated immediately. Speakers at the vigil included Skiff, Jen Henry, RN, Rep. John Tracy D-Burlington), and Peter Galbraith, a leader in St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Also in attendance was Progressive state Rep. David Zuckerman of Burlington.
Skiff, a nine-an-a-half year employee with a perfect work record and evaluations ranging from "proficient" to "superior," was terminated by Fletcher Allen last Friday, April 18, for providing the names and phone numbers of several co-workers to her union. Skiff is a leader in her union, Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals Local 5221, and was elected by her peers to serve on the union Bargaining Team,
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More than 700 nurses have signed a petition
that is the first step toward forming a union at Fletcher Allen Health Care, according to a statement released on behalf of union organizers.
Nursing union organizers filed the petition Friday with the National Labor Relations Board. The board must schedule a meeting between employer and employees within 10 business days, said Steve Chamberlin, a registered nurse helping to organize the union drive.
At that meeting, hospital management and union organizers hash out who is eligible to vote on the union, Chamberlin said. A date is set for the vote once employer and employee agree, he said.
That could take a few months based on how the hospital responds to the union effort, said Chamberlin, who helped lead a similar union drive in 1998 at the Burlington hospital.
At least 30 percent of workers who would be affected by a union must sign the initial petition, said Phillip Fiermonte, executive director of United Professions of Vermont.
Nurses at Vermont's largest hospital are asking for a union
vote. More than 700 nurses from Fletcher Allen Health Care have signed a petition asking for a vote on whether to affiliate with the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals.
Tara Risinger a nurse at Fletcher Allen says, "We want a union so we can deliver the kind of care we were trained to give. We need some say in staffing ratios, and some say in equipment that we need and some voice in decisions at the hospital."
But Fletcher Allen feels otherwise about the nurses forming a union.
Fletcher Allen Spokesperson Maria McClellan says, "the administration doesn't think a union is in the best interest of patient care and we think that having a third party in the middle of patient care can be devisive."
Nurses Union Presented their own Financial Plan Friday,
(as a) counter attack by frustrated nurses who say their tired of getting the short end of the stick.
... The nurses union presented their financial package today-one day after Fletcher Allen announced their plan to nurse the hospital back to health.
... A total of 128 positions will be eliminated.
... It's an overreaction, say nurses, during what they call a temporary slowdown in the healthcare industry.
They say their financial package-unlike Fletcher Allen's-takes a long-term approach that will keep employees in house.
... Union representatives say at a time when employees are already under tremendous strain job cuts will end-up costing the hospital even more.
"You have a situation with too few nurses who are working too hard and have to take on too many patients," says Chamberlin.
"There budget shows they don't value nurses and patient care as much as they should," says Henry.
There are mixed messages and worries over what's the next move.
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Registered nurses at Vermont's largest hospital voted
nearly 2-to-1 in favor of forming a union.
The final count, 672-345, was announced around 11:15 p.m. Thursday at Fletcher Allen Health Care's offices on the Trinity College campus in Burlington. Nurses erupted with cheers, hugs and tears. Fists pumped in the air. Nurses and union organizers high-fived each other.
Rosemary Cross, a registered nurse who has been at Fletcher Allen 30 years, clasped her palms to her cheeks, alternating between gasps and grins.
Some Fletcher Allen Nurses urged a state commission today
to bar the hospital from spending health care dollars for union-busting.
At one point .. a nurse told the Public Oversight Commission .. hospital conditions are deplorable ... and a union would help.
Angela Pratt was in Montpelier to tell the state commission .. nurses at Fletcher Allen who want to unionize .. are being bullied by union-busters.
"There's intimidation, there's fear, there's sometimes promises that if you don't unionize things will get better, we heard that four years ago and it didn't happen," says Pratt.
The push to organize has been ramping up recently .. a vote is now scheduled for October second and third.
In response .. Fletcher Allen has hired an agency from Kentucky to put out the hospital's message about unionizing.
The first labor contract in the history of Vermont's
largest hospital went into effect Thursday. Fletcher Allen Health Care and its unionized registered nurses went several rounds during the bargaining process. And now the two sides have signed the contract that both sides ratified two weeks ago.
... Management and representatives of the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals took the opportunity to make amends and heal the antagonism that accompanied six months of frequently stalled negotiations behind closed doors. Colodny praised both sides for the agreement reached in the midst of Fletcher Allen's deficit-ridden expansion, the Renaissance project, as well as a nationwide shortage of nurses.
... The nurses won major non-monetary concessions, including nurse-to-patient staffing ratios (no more than five patients per nurse in the medical- surgical unit, Two patients per nurse in critical care and one nurse assigned to each patient in the operating room). The nurses also won no mandatory overtime or "floating"
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The quest for a nurses union at the state's largest hospital
is taking a big step forward. Union organizers have collected 700 signatures; enough to hold a vote on the issue. Today the group filed a petition for an election with the National Labor Relations Board.
"Nurses are ready to make some changes and get some decision making power that will benefit nurses, Fletcher Allen, and most importantly the patients," says union organizer Tara Risinger.
The NLRB will schedule a hearing with the organizers and the Fletcher Allen Hospital administration to decide a potential date for a vote. A similar union effort failed four years ago, but there's speculation it will succeed this time because of the recent troubles facing the administration. -- end --
Unionized nurses at Vermont's largest hospital reached
a contract agreement Saturday following a negotiating session that lasted nearly thirty hours, reversing six months of deteriorating labor relations.
Nurses' union lead negotiator Steve Chamberlin, a registered nurse, announced the deal to a cheering crowd at what first had been called as a union rally on Colchester avenue in front of the hospital's main entrance.
As the product of negotiating teams from union and management, it's subject to ratification by all of the more than 1200 registered nurses and Fletcher Allen's board of trustees.
Fletcher Allen registered nurses voted last October to join the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) health care division, calling themselves the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals.
The union is affiliated with the AFL-CIO. Last month the nurses filed formal notice that they were prepared to call a strike. Since then, it appeared that both sides were hoping to prevent that from happening,
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Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals
(VFNHP) Local 5221 are the nurses at Fletcher Allen Healthcare that have organized a union with the VFNHP to improve the quality of care for patients and the working conditions for nurses through out the healthcare system.
"In Order to better serve our patients, their families and our communities,
We, the Registered Nurses of Fletcher Allen Health Care are organizing our Union with the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, UPV/AFT, AFL-CIO to:
Empower ourselves to advocate for our patients and our profession;
Ensure safe staffing to meet our patients' physical, emotional and spiritual needs;
Guarantee competitive wages and benefits for nurses in all clinical settings to improve retention and recruitment;
Negotiate a legally binding contract that fosters an environment of professionalism and respect where nurses have a real voice in decision making.
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Vermont's largest hospital hit the picket lines Wednesday
morning. Vermont's largest hospital hit the picket lines Wednesday morning.
Nurses at Fletcher Allen hospital are holding a series of informational pickets this week to call attention to their contract negotiations.
They are demanding an immediate settlement of a contract with the hospital.
Nurses say they are frustrated by what they feel is lagging progress in negotiations toward better pay and benefits and staffing levels.
If no contract deal is reached by July 5th the union will file a 10 day notice that they plan to strike for one day.
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