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Members Win Two 4% Increases (8.16% Raise) and Extra .25%
Over 2-Year Deal
Doctors Council SEIU is pleased to report that our new contract covering HHC and New York City employees was ratified on October 29, 2008 by unanimous vote of our Delegates and is now in effect. This excellent contract comes in difficult financial times and is one our members deserve.
Barry Liebowitz, M.D., President of Doctors Council SEIU ( pictured left)
stated “Ultimately, in a contract that is designed to retain and recruit
doctors to the City’s hospital system, as this contract does,
it is patient care that comes out the biggest winner.”
This contract runs from March 15, 2008 to March 27, 2010, and includes the following gains (and no concessions):
A 4% compounded raise for all Employees retroactive to March 15, 2008 (when our last contract expired); A 4% compounded raise for all Employees on March 15, 2009 (i.e. raises in the aggregate over the life of the agreement of 8.16%); On March 15, 2010, 0.25% in additional funds available that can be used for items other than salaries, such as annuity, differentials or welfare fund benefits.
This process started with our membership meeting on September 25th. Our members encouraged us to proceed directly to negotiations with New York City and obtain a new contract before financial conditions worsened. We were able to move with alacrity and accomplished just that. Our success in promptly reaching this agreement without any concession demonstrates the strength and effectiveness that followed from our unity. We are truly stronger together.
Doctors Council SEIU joins Community Groups in Celebrating Child Health Clinics 100th Year Anniversary |
Doctors Council SEIU has joined with twelve organizations, including the Commission on the Public Health System (CPHS), in planning an exciting year-long project to honor the 100th Year Anniversary of New York City's Child Health Clinics. The project includes organizing events and mobilizing groups in each borough, providing information about health insurance and "medical homes", and stressing the importance of ongoing comprehensive primary care services. There will be a survey of parents and youths about health seeking behavior and the development of a Child/Family Health Policy Agenda.
The 100 Years – Child Health Planning Committee is inviting your participation in a very exciting year-long project to celebrate the anniversary of the Child Health Clinics and develop a Child/Family Health Agenda for the city of New York. The Committee expects to fund borough-wide coalitions in each of the five boroughs that will be actively involved in all aspects of the year-long project. We are expecting to have all of the funds needed to select at least one Community-Based Organization (CBO) in each borough to work with the planning committee for the year.
The Community Coalition is aiming to organize a broad borough coalition to plan celebration events at the Child Health Clinics that will: focus on the clinics; offer information and ability to enroll children in public health insurance; promote primary and preventive health care; and promote the need for a “medical home” for children. We are also seeking to participate in the development of a Child/Family Health Policy Agenda that includes specific information and recommendations for communities in every your borough. Further, we want to administer a survey for parents/youth with questions about the design of the health care system, problems and gaps in services, and some additional information. Results of this survey will be published as a separate report and will also be incorporated in a Policy Agenda.
For more information, please visit http://www.cphsnyc.org/
Dr. Milagros Chua, a Doctors Council member, received the Marshall C. England Public Health Award from the Commission on the Public's Health System for dedicating 31 years to providing health services for children. Dr. Chua has worked in Child Health Clinics for over 3 decades. She is seeing her second
generation of children. Dr. Chua has specialized in asthma treatment and education and vigorously defends funding to keep community child health clinics open, getting over 1,000 signatures on a petition to protect needed funding for clinic services. Pictured to the right is Dr. Chua.
THE ASSAULT ON OUR PROFESSION
These changes in medicine have occurred without the consent, much less the consultation, of doctors. Furthermore, these changes have placed doctors in the precarious position of bearing the responsibility for patient care with little or no authority over how to exercise it, causing frustration and a sense of helplessness among dedicated health professionals.
However, there is a solution.
The solution is DOCTORS COUNCIL SEIU.Doctors who never considered unionization in the past, now recognize that a union offers a vital mechanism to reassert control over the practice of medicine. In addition, a union provides doctors with a unified front to fight for their rights as well as the rights of their patients. Doctors from all clinical services have their concerns represented by advocates who understand medical issues as they directly affect doctors.
| Doctors Council SEIU members ratifying a union contract that addresses, advances and protects the benefits, compensation and working conditions of doctors. |
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