UNMH Local 1199

1199 Stands up for our rights. Please write our Representatives and Senators, City Counselors and county commissioners...all of them and share your story of work at UNMH. Say no to Healthcare Worker Exploitation! No justice no peace until UNMH shows us respect

"On the eve of UNM’s Tuesday budget summit, Kate O’Neill, the Cabinet secretary for the New Mexico Higher Education Department, sent a letter to officials at universities and colleges throughout the state notifying them that all of their employees are to receive a 4% raise. A proposed budget UNM’s Board of Regents had been scheduled to vote on Tuesday would have given all faculty and staff at the state’s flagship university a 2% pay raise.

Regents postponed action on the budget so officials could address O’Neill’s letter."

UNM considering raising tuition to cover pay raises State says universities must increase all employees' pay 4%

Dr. Peter Nichol: "[T]here needs to be an adjustment to the salaries of workers on the low end of the wage scale. Jobs like sterile processing (which is high tech, high stress and high throughput) as well as environmental services are critical to the safety and performance of any healthcare system. They need to be recognized as such..I also am aware of surgeons pulling down seven figure salaries while nurses, surgical and sterile processing techs who are equally important to the delivery of quality surgical care fight over the scraps."

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The Poverty Healthcare Vortex If one of your missions is ensuring the health of your community, is it ethical to pay your workers a wage that permanently stratifies them to the lower class,

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Tell the UNM Administration to Stop Their Anti-Union Efforts NOW! The University of New Mexico faculty is committed to their academic mission and the diverse communities they serve. They are the backbone of the school. But their university president is preventing them from voting to form a union. Click here to write to the President and Board of Regents to show yo...