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After a focused contract campaign, members at Valley View Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation have voted to ratify a new three-year agreement. Represented by RWDSU Local 139, the bargaining unit stood firm to secure a contract that delivers essential improvements to wages, benefits, and workplace protections.
Healthcare workers can only provide the care their patients need when they are taken care of as well. That’s why the union difference is so important to workers like the members of Local 108 who work in rehab and assisted living facilities.
A new three-year contract at Aperion Health Care in New Rochelle, Illinois, brings the Local 578 members there four percent annual wage increases and increases the starting minimum wage for new hires to $15 per hour. Two new paid holidays – members’ birthdays and a personal day - have been implemented. And there were numerous language improvements, including discrimination protection, reduced probation period from 90 to 60 days, Paid Time Off eligibility from the first year of employment, improvements in grievance procedure and funeral leave pay, higher uniform allowance and improved successorship language.
RWDSU Local 108 members, joined by officers of the New Jersey State AFL-CIO and officers and members of allied unions, held an informational picket on Saturday, July 24, to bring attention to stalled contract talks with Complete Care Management LLC. Complete Care is the new owner of Burlington Woods and Woodlands nursing home facilities where Local 108 members provide attentive and compassionate care for ill and aged residents.
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