The hospitals recently entered into formal negotiations with our nurses' union, CRONA. As a part of our ongoing commitment to enhance patient care and recognize the contributions bedside nurses make to achieving better patient outcomes and enhancing the overall patient experience, the hospitals recently presented a proposal for the creation of a Professional Nurse Development Program (PNDP). Read more here.
 
Updated: Monday, February 8, 2010

Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (SHC/LPCH) have formally announced our bargaining team in preparation for negotiations with our nurses union, CRONA, which will commence today — Monday, January 25. The SHC/LPCH bargaining team is comprised of members from our Patient Care Management, Human Resources, and Finance teams. Read more here.

Updated: Monday, January 25, 2010

SHC/LPCH's new contract with SEIU-UHW provides a 2% across the board increase each year, not 4% as reported in a recent article by Health Leaders Media. The two-year contract with SEIU-UHW was ratified in a vote on August 27, 2009.

Highlights of the new contract include:

• 2% across the board wage increases each year.
• An additional 2% annual step increase for those eligible.

The SEIU-UHW membership, which represents 1,450 out of 9,172 employees at the hospitals in jobs such as housekeeping, food service, nursing assistants, and technicians.

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford Hospital & Clinics have reached a new contract agreement with employees represented by the SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) union. Read more below.

Read the press release here.

Read an article from the San Francisco Business Times here.

Updated: Friday, August 28, 2009

The Hospitals are pleased to announce that we have reached what we think is a fair tentative agreement with UHW-SEIU. We have been told the union is recommending that employees accept the agreement. This tentative agreement does not become final until the represented employees vote to ratify it tomorrow, Thursday, August 27th. The union will be providing the details to the employees in the bargaining unit at the ratification vote tomorrow. We encourage represented employees to attend these meetings.

Updated: Wednesday, August 26, 2009

For the last year, the Hospitals and the union United Healthcare Workers West (UHW) have been bargaining a new contract for the 1,450 employees who elected to be represented by UHW in September 2008. Throughout these sessions, we have had a productive dialogue regarding non-economic and economic concerns. The foundation for our non-economic discussion was the previous contract we had with SEIU 715. To read more about the Hospitals’ non-economic and economic proposals to UHW, click here.

Updated: Friday, August 21, 2009

On August 12th, the Hospitals continued negotiations with UHW focusing primarily on the articles related to Layoffs, Wages, Benefits, and other economic issues. Read more here.

Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2009

On July 14, the hospitals presented their economic proposals to UHW. To read the full summary of the proposals, click here.

Updated: Tuesday, July 14, 2009

After a brief one-week break, the Hospitals continued negotiations with UHW on June 30, and signed off on three additional tentative agreements and discussed some other not yet settled non-economic articles. The parties signed tentative agreements (TAs) regarding “Mergers,” and “Severability,” and signed a partial TA regarding “Stewards,” covering all but one issue. The remaining aspect of the article on Stewards relates to economics and will be handled during that phase of negotiations. Read more here.
 
Updated: Monday, July 6, 2009

Over the last two bargaining sessions, held on June 10 and 16, the Hospitals continued to make progress with UHW on several non-economic proposals. In the June 16th session, the parties signed two tentative agreements: “Joint Management and Labor Committee” and “Performance Evaluations.” In addition, the parties continue to make progress on three non-economic proposals—“Discipline and Discharge,” “Hours of Work,” and “Leaves of Absence.” Read more here.
 
Updated: Thursday, June 18, 2009