On Wednesday October 23, 2019, Teamsters at the Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital ratified a new 2 year contract voting 98% to approve. Teamsters Local 769 is the bargaining unit representative for nurses at the hospital and they made numerous gains in this upcoming contract term.
In addition to gains in wages, workers beat back a proposal to reduce the hospitals contribution to the Union Health Insurance Plan by one-half and will maintain at the current premium contribution rate. An additional Union Health Insurance Plan with reduced costs that includes dental, vision, short-term disability, life and retiree benefits is also now available.
Nurses at the hospital will also see improvements to the grievance procedure, job bidding, and new ‘On Call’ procedures that increased the guaranteed minimum pay from one (1) to two (2) hours for a scheduled on call event to name a few.
“I am proud of the resolve these workers have shown and how they stuck together to achieve a solid contract.”, said Recording Secretary and Business agent for the group, Steve Myers. “They deserve to be rewarded for their hard work and this contract is a step in the right direction.”
“I would like to thank members of our negotiating committee, Pam Bedell, Kim Buckland, Sharon Weems, Candice Jipson, Sheila Kramer, and Donna Anderson for their hard work and dedication to this process.”, said Steve.
Congratulations to all of the nurses at the Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital and thank you for all of your hard work serving the community.
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