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Wednesday, June 25th
5:00 p.m. – The parties ended for the day and no additional dates have been scheduled. |
2:15 p.m. – The parties met together again in a joint session in small committees. The union presented a response to the hospital which was a slight modification to the HSA contribution but no additional response to hospital’s comprehensive package proposal. |
10:15 a.m. – The parties met together in a joint session with small committees, where the hospital presented and discussed a new proposal that addressed requests from the Union. The Hospital’s modified proposal will reduce the premiums and out-of-pocket maximums in the Network Blue New England plan, providing full-time individual employees with access to a second $0 premium plan (in addition to the BlueSolutions HSA Plan), while all other employees would see further reduced premiums. Here are links to the updated proposal documents: Housekeeping/Dietary Professional/RN Clerical Mental Health Workers/Technical All other aspects of these new proposals are unchanged from the hospital’s June 5th proposal, which the Union has not yet responded to. |
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