Protecting And Improving Our Benefits
Last year, the administration stopped paying into our retirement. Right now, nothing is protecting our benefits: the administration can still change or end a benefit without asking us. Our benefits are too important for us to not have a say in any changes. We need a seat at the table and the ability to say yes or no to changes.
What We Can Do By Forming Our Union
We are voting yes to form our union to gain the right to collectively bargain, so management cannot make changes to our benefits without our approval and input. By forming our union, we can also improve our benefits.
Below are some examples of what other union workers have negotiated:
Improvements and Protections
Bereavement policies with expanded familial classifications
Shared sick banks, and compensation for sick hours in bank
Extended benefits eligibility for domestic partners
Standardized orientation procedure so everyone understands their benefits package from the outset
Established grievance procedure so HR has to work with employees to address any miscalculations of benefits
Example: Planned Parenthood workers unionized with MSEA recently negotiated clear language that their employer could not make changes to their health benefits without mutual agreement.