Message sent to OPEIU Local 8 represented at The Doctors Clinic on Feb. 6, 2026
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Your Bargaining Team – Lynn Johnson, Lori Defoe, Renee Abernathy, and Becky Harrington – has reached a Tentative Agreement with the employer! Now, it’s time for members to vote. Your Bargaining Team recommends a “YES” vote.
Highlights of the Tentative Agreement:
- Effective 11/1/25 – 5% across the board increase to the wage scale and employee wages.
- Effective the 1st pay period after ratification, those employees at Step 15 will receive gross lump sum equal to 2.5% of their current wage multiplied by 2080 multiplied by their FTE.
- Effective 11/1/26 – 3% across the board increase to the wage scale and employee wages.
- Effective 1st pay period after 11/1/26, those employees at Step 15 will receive a gross lump sum equal to 2% of their current wage multiplied by 2080 multiplied by their FTE.
- Effective 11/1/27 – 2% across the board increase to the wage scale and employee wages.
- Effective 1st pay period after 11/1/27, those employees at Step 15 will receive a gross lump sum equal to 2% of their current wage multiplied by 2080 multiplied by their FTE.
- Increase shift differential to $2 per hour.
- Increase weekend differential to $3 per hour.
- Increase rotator premium to $2 per hour.
- Minimum written notice of 21 days for change in shift starting/ending times.
Increased bereavement leave to 5 days with pay and included the loss of child if the employee would have qualified for prenatal or postnatal medical leave or family leave. - Clarified Long Term Illness usage.
Voting will be done electronically starting next week and only those employees who are members in good standing will be able to vote.
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