Daughters of Charity - SEIU-UHW Healthcare Workers West

ARTICLE 4: JOB SECURITY
The parties acknowledge a common goal and intent of providing employment and income
security to employees. As such, it is the intent of the parties to avoid displacement of
employees, but recognize that there are circumstances when avoiding displacement
cannot be achieved. The parties acknowledge a mutual intention to make use of attrition,
business growth, aggressive job matching, retraining and/or other mutually agreed upon
mechanisms to accomplish this goal. The Hospitals will make every effort to avoid
displacing employees (e.g., reduction in force, reduction in hours, daily cancellations, job
elimination on a temporary, indefinite, or permanent basis, etc.) and in so far as it is able,
will provide employment security to bargaining unit employees. The parties agree that
employees faced with displacement from their position shall be given first consideration
for reassignment or floating wherever possible in lieu of involuntary reduction.
Furthermore, if an employee is unavoidably displaced, the Hospitals will assist
employees in identifying other job opportunities in other departments at the home
facility, or at other Daughters of Charity facilities. The Hospitals also agree to the
following:
Training and Upgrade Fund
At Seton, Saint Louise and O’Connor, the Employers shall each contribute 0.22% of the
gross wages of the employees in the bargaining unit in the first year of this Agreement to
a jointly administered Taft-Hartley Trust Fund to be created for the purpose of providing
an economic basis for training and retraining employees covered by this Agreement. At
St. Francis, the Employer shall contribute 0.25% of the gross wages of the employees in
the bargaining unit in the first year of this Agreement to a jointly administered Taft-
Hartley Trust Fund to be created for the purpose of providing an economic basis for
training and retraining employees covered by this Agreement. Thereafter, in each
successive year of the contract, the Employers shall each contribute the same dollar
amount as contributed in the first contract year. The trustees of the Fund shall be an equal
number of Union and Employer representatives, who shall be responsible for the creation
and operation of this Fund. At least one representative from either Seton, O’Connor,
Saint Louise, or St. Francis would like to be considered as an Employers’ trustee for this
Fund.
ARTICLE 5: SUBCONTRACTING
There will be no subcontracting of bargaining unit work performed by employees, except
by mutual agreement between the Employers and the Union.
ARTICLE 6: EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
A. Discrimination
At Seton, Saint Louise and O’Connor Only:
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