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CWA 1133 Communications Vital Signs

December 2024 Vital Signs

Departments that are closed for the holiday:

Mercy

MHB RN: Article 11 Paid Time Off, Section 12 & MHB STC: Article 10 Paid Time Off, Section 12

If a department or work unit is closed as a result of an Employer/Hospital recognized holiday, namely New Year’s Day, Easter Sunday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day, an employee may take a PTO day. If an employee is scheduled to work when their department or work unit is open, another PTO day can be scheduled at a more appropriate time depending on Employer/Hospital needs. Part-time employees scheduled to work on any of the above recognized holidays will have the option to take PTO, to take time off without pay or to work another shift if the time is available.

Section 17: OR

Article 18 On-Call and Work in Progress:

OR, PACU, L&D, IR, Cath Lab, MIU, Dialysis, GI & Stress Lab

MHB STC:

Article 26: On-Call and Work in Progress:

OR, IR, Cath Lab, MIU & Stress Lab

Please reference those articles and sections for your department, if closed for the holidays that are coming up.

 

Kenmore

KMH RN: Article 11 Paid Time Off, Section 13

If a department or work unit is closed as a result of an Employer/Hospital recognized holiday, namely New Year’s Day, Easter Sunday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day, an employee may take a PTO day. If an employee is scheduled to work when their department or work unit is open, another PTO day can be scheduled at a more appropriate time depending on Employer/Hospital needs. Part-time employees scheduled to work on any of the above recognized holidays have the option of taking PTO or time off without pay.

Article 10 On-Call Procedure Operating Room, Post Anesthesia Care Unit, Interventional Radiology & Dialysis

Please reference that article for your department, if closed for the holidays that are coming up.

KMH Tech: Article 10 Paid Time Off, Section 9, D

2. In areas where employees are expected to take Holiday call, holidays will be covered on a voluntary basis. If there are no volunteers, then holidays will be assigned on a rotational basis according to inverse seniority. If an employee already volunteered for a holiday in a calendar year, they would be exempt from the rotation.

3. Assignments to work a holiday in each group will be determined by the previous year’s holiday assignment and will be done on an alternating basis.

Article 9: On-Call Procedure Operating Room & Radiology

Please reference that article for your department, if closed for the holidays that are coming up.

Reminders:

  • Please check your pay if you know you're due for an anniversary raise or step increase, HR will only go back 90 days, we did not agree to this.
  • Please make sure you are filling out your short staffing forms, this is your protest of assignment!
  • If you are interested in communicating information to your unit regarding bargaining updates, please contact Bob Scime at the union hall 716-828-1133.

Bargaining Survey:

  • Thank you to everyone who did the survey. It is greatly appreciated.
  • We had a great turnout from all 3 hospitals: South Buffalo Mercy, Kenmore Mercy and St. Joes.
  • The bargaining team will be providing regular updates.
  • Our contract expires on June 30th, 2025.

Bargaining:

  • The bargaining committee has been meeting since early November reviewing survey results and also reviewing current contract language.
  • The committee has already reviewed Common Table language and is currently going through bargaining unit language.
  • There are scheduled caucus days through January and will meet in February as well if needed.
  • Negotiations with the hospital begin March 3rd, 2025.

Community Service Committee:

  • We donated to Ten Lives Club & WNY Heroes for Vets from our fundraiser at the South Buffalo Farmers Market in the summer.

  • We will be donating blankets to 2 of the floors for our OLV residents.

4th Quarter Retirees:

  • Francine Dengler, NA: 9/30/24

  • Judith Gallant, Patient Access: 9/8/24

  • Colleen Raczynski, MHB RN: 11/2/24

  • Marian Siwy, Patient Access: 10/1/24

Congratulations to all of our retirees this year!

This update was brought to you by the Communications Committee:

Rebecca Aldrow, Jamie Banks, Kerri Diebold-Phillips, Kimberly Hayward, Brian Magner, Kevonna Neely, Larry Potts, Sharon Scime, Bonnie Shantz and Jennifer Williams.