The Fairfield-based industrial conglomerate reached the tentative agreements this month with its two largest employee unions: the International Union of Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers-Communications Workers of America and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.
The Fairfield-based industrial conglomerate reached the tentative agreements this month with its two largest employee unions: the International Union of Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers-Communications Workers of America and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.
The Fairfield-based industrial conglomerate reached the tentative agreements this month with its two largest employee unions: the International Union of Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers-Communications Workers of America and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.
``We understand that the hospital has some financial problem,'' said Fernando Losada, international representative for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, which represents about 500 service, maintenance and technical employees.
The contract offer presented to the California Nurses Association and United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, which together represent about 240 nurses and about 500 other hospital workers, comes months after two factions of the hospital workers decided to unionize and then joined to negotiate a contract together.
National negotiations are expected to begin May 21 in New York with the Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers-Communications Workers of America, which represents about 10,000 workers, and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, with 4,000 members.
