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As our bargaining team and experts continue to work on verifying ever-changing numbers from management, it is important that members understand that our unity and resolve during negotiations are key to our success. Mr. Migoya is launching underhanded tactics to divide and conquer, but we must continue to fight for the best possible contract.
Labor tensions mount at Jackson Health System
Labor tensions are mounting at the Jackson Health System, with the public hospitals almost two months into the new fiscal year without crucial union contracts.
Management’s Changing Numbers Delay Bargaining
Union financial experts were extremely disappointed today to see new and different calculations and assumptions from management as both sides were reviewing the cost of proposed concessions in preparation for tomorrow’s scheduled bargaining session.
Maybe Migoya Should Stay Home!
Millionaire Banker Carlos Migoya has it all: Smart, well-connected, very rich … In fact, he is now the highest paid public official in Miami-Dade County, with an annual salary of more than $600,000. But this banker — appointed through community connections and back door chats — is running our public hospital into the ground. Migoya has no prior experience in managing a hospital, yet he is in charge of Jackson Health System, Miami’s Medical Miracle.
BARGAINING UPDATE: Management Takes U-Turn on Guaranteed Work Week; Union Blasts Migoya’s Furlough Plan
Negotiations continued today with management submitting a counter proposal, which maintained the 4-3 schedule for RNs, but eliminated the guaranteed work week, a reversal from the previous bargaining session. Chief Negotiator Martha Baker, RN, and our bargaining team remain committed to keeping both the 4-3 schedule and our guaranteed work week.
Jackson Health System board to hold private meeting on system’s future
After months of preparation and years of discussion, Jackson Health System’s executive team has crafted a strategic plan to turn around the financially distressed public hospitals, which have lost more than $400 million over the past three years.
Jackson’s Nurses and Doctors Call On Marlins To Share Revenue From Glitzy, New Taxpayer-funded Stadium
Today, our members gathered outside DTC at Jackson Memorial Hospital to officially asked the Miami Marlins baseball team to use their revenues at the new publicly financed stadium to match, dollar-for-dollar, our $36 million financial sacrifice we are offering to save Jackson.
Migoya’s Getting Desperate! We are empowered … not threatened
Carlos Migoya showed us his hand last week with his announcement of employee furloughs: he’s desperate for us to come to an agreement at the bargaining table. While it’s a drastic, unprecedented and perhaps illegal move, this new development could be used for our advantage as we continue negotiations with management. We are still advocating for management to reconsider their original offer of $122 million in contract concessions. Now that Migoya has made this frenzied move, it’s time for us to think strategically of ways in which we can benefit from this crisis.
Finances strain the marriage between Jackson and the University of Miami
When Overtown resident Myrtle Holmes started going to Jackson Memorial clinic with severe back problems and no insurance, she sometimes had to wait five hours to see a pain specialist. She couldn’t afford to pay, so she became a charity case, the kind that costs the public hospital system $550 million a year.
In May, Holmes, 56, qualified for Medicare because she was disabled. On her next visit to the clinic, she told her pain doctor about her new Medicare coverage. The doctor, a University of Miami faculty member working at the public hospital as part of a decades-long arrangement, then told her something that surprised her: She could now start seeing him in his UM office, rather than the Jackson clinic.