‘Disrespected’: UC Davis health care workers say their proposed wage increase is ‘garbage’
Dietitians, physical therapists and other health care professionals at UC Davis Health say that, over nearly a year of bargaining, the university’s labor negotiators have been skipping sessions and have not offered raises of more than 2 percent a year… All of the unions worry that UC wants to move new union hires into 401(k)-style retirement plans and away from the traditional pension… But this is not the only shifting of risk that UC is attempting during current contract negotiations, Wine said. “They want to eliminate any cap on the shared cost of our health benefits, and they want to eliminate any cap on parking costs for their employees,” Wine said. “When you do that, what cost-of-living increase are you really getting?…Currently, we believe if we accepted the 2 percent and we accepted elimination of these caps to the costs of benefits and parking, we believe the employee would actually take home less (money).”
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by Cathie Anderson, The Sacramento Bee.