Unions Continue Heated Dispute With Alta Bates Medical Center

by BDP

Sun, Jun 13, 2004 10:15AM

Ninety percent of 800 workers who voted at the Alta Bates Summit Medical center rejected a recent contract offer by the hospital late last week, locking the two sides back into heated negotiations that have been ongoing since before the workers’ contract expired at the end of May.

On Wednesday that battle escalated when the union, the Oakland-based Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 250, notified Alta Bates Summit that they filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court charging the hospital with assault, battery and false arrest of a union organizer and assault on an employee during incidents related to union organizing.

A federal mediator also stepped in after a Wednesday bargaining session did not create any progress between the two sides.

According to the union, employees rejected the most recent contract offer by the hospital because it did not acknowledge two of their primary demands. Those demands include equal employee participation in the decision process that sets hospital staffing levels and the establishment of a permanent employee training and education fund.

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