Alameda Health System
Alameda Health System
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Know Your Contract
General Unit
General Unit Unit Effective April 1, 2020 – May 31, 2024
RN Unit
RN Unit Contract: April 1, 2020 - May 31, 2024
San Leandro Hospital Unit
San Leandro Unit April 1, 2020 – March 31, 2024
Chapter Bylaws
SEIU 1021 Alameda Health System Chapter Bylaws (Updated April 28, 2019)
2023 Chapter Notice of Bargaining Team Elections: All Units
Assignment Despite Objection Form
Past Contracts
- Registered Nurses Unit Effective April 1, 2104 – March 31, 2017 (Archived)
- General Unit Unit Effective April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2017 (Archived)
- Registered Nurses – Tentative Agreements (Archived)
- General Unit – Tentative Agreements (Archived)
- San Leandro Hospital – Tentative Agreements (Archived)
- RN Unit Contract: April 1, 2017 - March 31, 2020 (Archived)
- Read more
Bargaining Update, April 19: Where Is Management’s Urgency?
Our Contract Expires May 31st
Your elected Bargaining Team has been meeting with management for months. Bargaining together, across all three contracts, we’ve passed more than sixty proposals, focusing on our core issues of staffing, including recruitment and retention, safety, scheduling, and patient care. We see AHS as a place with real issues that need urgent attention. Unfortunately, with our contract set to expire on May 31, we have seen little urgency from management.
Alameda Health System May Day Action
Come Show Your Solidarity and Support for a Fair Contract: Staffing, Safety, Scheduling, and Patient Care
Your elected Bargaining Team has been meeting with management for months. Bargaining together, across all three contracts, we’ve passed more than sixty proposals, focusing on our core issues of staffing, including recruitment and retention, safety, scheduling, and patient care. We see AHS as a place with real issues that need urgent attention. Unfortunately, with our contract set to expire on May 31, we have seen little urgency from management.
Bargaining Update
April, 2024
It’s time to stand up against layoffs and takeaways!
Where are we with bargaining?
We proposed:
- Comprehensive safety plan
- Wage increases to beat inflation
- Improvements to PTO
- Strengthened union rights and representation
- Big improvements to staffing matrices
- …and more!
They proposed:
Alameda Health System workers keep fighting for safety across the system
As their efforts to get a strong new contract with AHS management persist, AHS workers at Fairmont and John George Psychiatric Hospital rallied last Wednesday to protest the understaffing epidemic that has led to a serious safety crisis there.
Among the speakers was John George Psychiatric Hospital RN Handsel Meese, who spoke about being assaulted just a month ago when a patient got his hands around her throat. ”I could easily have been killed,” Meese said.
Bargaining Update for March, 2024
Your elected SEIU 1021 Bargaining Team has met with management multiple times over the past months. Our contract with AHS expires on May 31 and we are working with a sense of urgency. We’ve made proposals to help AHS recruit and retain workers, and make AHS a safe, healthy place for both patients and workers.
We’ve proposed:
Alameda Health System workers picket outside Highland Hospital to demand safe staffing and an end to “heartbreaking” mismanagement
“The situation across Alameda Health System is breaking my heart right now.”
On Wednesday, February 14, hundreds of Alameda Health System workers picketed outside Oakland’s Highland Hospital to protest the chronic understaffing problem that’s leading to unsafe working conditions and compromised patient care. The spirited rally included workers from emergency room nurses to environmental health workers and featured a group of dressed-up cupids.
Bargaining Update
February 2024 -- Don't Forget Our Valentine's Day Rally!
Valentine’s Day Rally!
Highland Hospital
Feb. 14
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Come get your shirt! Lunch will be served.
RSVP for next week’s actions!
Show up for San Francisco and Alameda Health System workers
Across Northern California, SEIU 1021 members are rallying for strong contracts that help our members bring quality services to our communities.
If you’re a member in the Bay Area, there are two big actions happening next week, and you’re invited to show up in support!
We Have a Bargaining Team!
General Unit
Free-Standing Clinics
- Patty Yanez Medrano
Fairmont
- Blessing Augustus
- Olalekan Ejalonibu
- Latoya Johnson-Chatman
- Prince Turner
John George
- Maria Betancourt
- Benjamin Fisher
- Tawanda Gilbert
Highland
Bargaining Team Election Notice
Our contract expires May 31, 2024, so it’s time to elect a new bargaining team! The schedule is as follows, and sample ballots are below. Please review them carefully. If you believe you have found a mistake, please email Shane.Ruiz@seiu1021.org before Friday, September 8 at 8 a.m.
NOTE: San Leandro only received 5 nominations for their 7 seats, and will therefore not have an election. The following 5 San Leandro members will serve on the bargaining team:
Election Announcement (REVISED)
Nominations Open: May 12, 2023; Nomination Period Ends: June 12, 2023
AHS Chapter Election 2023
SEIU 1021 – Alameda Health System Chapter (AHS) – RN, GENERAL
UNIT
AND SAN LEANDRO CONTRACT
Election Announcement (REVISED)
Nominations Open: May 12, 2023
When Tragedy Strikes, SEIU 1021 Members Must Stick Together
A Message from SEIU 1021 President Theresa Rutherford
Dear SEIU 1021 Member:
Last week a difficult week for Alameda Health System, as two
workers there passed away: Maria Tran, a psychiatric nurse
at John George, and Dr. Jing Mai, a physician resident intern at
Highland. These untimely deaths are terribly sad, and while we
may never fully understand why tragedies like these occur, we
know the effects will be felt in our workplaces and in our
communities for a long time.
We Won Additional Compensation for Designated Shifts!
The Omicron surge is hitting us all hard. To improve patient care, address short staffing issues, and enhance safety, we negotiated with AHS management to create a new differential for certain shifts. This new differential will increase staffing, allow adequate staffing for acuity peaks and high-census times, and avoid using external agencies for staffing.
Notice of Member Convention Delegate Election
Alameda Health System
The AHS Chapter may elect up to 30 delegates for the SEIU 1021 Member Convention to be held September 25, 2021.
Join Our Car Caravan at San Leandro Hospital
October 10, 11 a.m.
October 10 Update: The San Leandro Hospital rally has been turned into a car caravan!
Please join us at 11 a.m. at San Leandro Hospital
13855 E. 14th St.,
San Leandro
Let’s make some noise and show the community that we are there for them and we won’t rest until we’ve forced Alameda Health System’s CEO and Board of Trustees to do what the Alameda County Board of Supervisors have told them to do: give us a fair contract and put public health in public hands.
Caravan route:
ALERT! Car Caravan Route for Friday, October 9, at 2 p.m.!
We have had to cancel the barbeque, unfortunately.
Today’s planned 2 p.m. march at AHS headquarters is being changed to a car caravan. Please assemble at the Alameda Labor Council: 7750 Pardee Lane, Oakland, to prepare for the caravan.
The caravan route is as follows:
Assemble vehicles along Pardee Ln. near the Alameda Labor Council at 7750 Pardee, Oakland, CA 94621