County’s largest mental health provider comes to terms with workers.
and other executives resisted employees' efforts to organize, then attempted to co-opt the emerging UWIC with a management-appointed, then made sweeping unilateral changes to the draft consultation policy that UWIC rejected. But a final round of talks involving Evans, Board ChairDistrict 6 led to an outcome everyone could support.
The nascent union has already cited its success in persuading the board, back in December, to increase IC's starting wage from $15 to $20 per hour for certain positions and job classes where turnover was rampant. Initially, IC managers wanted to do an eight-month compensation study before considering any raises, but instead opted for the targeted wage increase while deciding how to best provide cost-of-living adjustments to the entire IC workforce. On May 26, trustees also approved $2.
Kolb thinks UWIC has commitments from about twice as many people as it needs to be certified, and she expects more to join now that employees need not fear retaliation for doing so. The next step for UWIC will be to make sure members understand what the union can and can't do, and how it can best be leveraged to improve the working conditions of all employees at the agency."Now we can start to build the house," Kolb said.
Because of the kind of work Integral Care does, Kolb thinks a healthy and active union will be essential for the agency's continued success; it will provide a way for employees on the front lines of behavioral health to share what they know with the trustees who set agency policy."We have something like 400 to 500 people at this organization who are all smart, solid people who care about their clients and care about the work that we do," Kolb said.
So, what's next for UWIC?"Honestly, it feels like the sky's the limit," Kolb told us."Now that we're organized, we finally have some real power at the agency."
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