UNMH Local 1199

06/23/2019

UNMH hired consultant Mercer group for $1/2M to analyze and adjust our wage scale. Results say we are 8% behind on the wages. We could have told you that for free. The public ranks nurses the most trusted profession. Listen to the nurses UNMH

06/23/2019

1199 Stands up for our rights. Please write our Representatives and Senators, City Counselors and county commissioners...all of them and share your story of work at UNMH. Say no to Healthcare Worker Exploitation! No justice no peace until UNMH shows us respect

04/30/2019

"Local 217, on the other hand, has spent the past few years changing from this typical staff-driven model to a member-driven approach". Step up members and delegates... no more excuses. Workers talking to workers is real organizing.

One union’s member-centered model prepared it for a fierce anti-union campaign that would have broken many others. UNITE HERE Local 217, which represents 3,000 workers in hotels and university cafeterias, has been on an organizing sweep through southern Connecticut, winning union elections at the ...

04/11/2019

"On the eve of UNM’s Tuesday budget summit, Kate O’Neill, the Cabinet secretary for the New Mexico Higher Education Department, sent a letter to officials at universities and colleges throughout the state notifying them that all of their employees are to receive a 4% raise. A proposed budget UNM’s Board of Regents had been scheduled to vote on Tuesday would have given all faculty and staff at the state’s flagship university a 2% pay raise.

Regents postponed action on the budget so officials could address O’Neill’s letter."

State says universities must increase all employees' pay 4%

04/11/2019

From 2008 to 2018, few professors at the University of New Mexico—whether tenured, or tenure-track, or adjunct—received wage increases greater than the

04/09/2019

Dr. Peter Nichol: "[T]here needs to be an adjustment to the salaries of workers on the low end of the wage scale. Jobs like sterile processing (which is high tech, high stress and high throughput) as well as environmental services are critical to the safety and performance of any healthcare system. They need to be recognized as such.
..I also am aware of surgeons pulling down seven figure salaries while nurses, surgical and sterile processing techs who are equally important to the delivery of quality surgical care fight over the scraps."

https://www.beyondclean.net/b…/the-poverty-healthcare-vortex

If one of your missions is ensuring the health of your community, is it ethical to pay your workers a wage that permanently stratifies them to the lower class,

04/04/2019

Our service to New Mexico deserves more, make your budget reflect what we are worth!

I just signed a petition to University of New Mexico Board of Regents: As the New Members of the Board of Regents of University of the New Mexico begin their tenure and act on their first UNMH budget please know that UNM Hospital Employees have not received a decent pay raise for more than eight yea...

04/02/2019

What’s the role of a shop steward? Traditionally we think of someone who’s knowledgeable about the contract, the law, and how things function in our workplace and union. But one role often gets neglected: the peacemaker. I don’t mean someone who makes peace between workers and the boss. A stew...

03/27/2019

03/21/2019

Join Live 3/28: 40 Years of Troublemaking in the Labor Movement - https://mailchi.mp/labornotes/troublemakers-dispatch-161423

03/21/2019

The University of New Mexico faculty is committed to their academic mission and the diverse communities they serve. They are the backbone of the school. But their university president is preventing them from voting to form a union. Click here to write to the President and Board of Regents to show yo...

03/12/2019

Dear UNM Board of Regents,

No stalling. No high-priced lawyers; just a fair election this semester.

Sincerely,
United Academics of UNM