Hospital workers to vote on joining SEIU
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- December
- 11
About 180 business staff at Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle and Mount Vernon Hospital will vote tomorrow on whether to join United Healthcare Workers East, Local 1199 of Service Employees International Union.
If successful, it would be the second group of hospital business workers that Local 1199 has organized in Westchester County this year, said Minerva Solla, vice president with the union’s organizing department.
In March, about 100 workers at Saint Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers voted to join the local, she said.
Hospital business staff include a wide range of job categories, including cashiers, coders, computer operators, clerk/typists, dietary clerks, data entry clerks, medical records staff, and switchboard operators.
The balloting will be overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. If the workers agree to representation by the local, they would subsequently form committees and start to negotiate a contract with management.
Solla said the Saint Joseph’s workers signed a contract with management several months after the vote.
Local 1199 also represents more than 900 service and technical workers at the New Rochelle and Mount Vernon hospitals.
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