Consistent with a fair and just workplace, our commitment to our team members is to provide a work environment that promotes dignity and collaboration. We strive to earn your trust and commitment by partnering with you to create a culture based on positive, supportive, mutually beneficial relationships.
While we respect every team member’s right to choose or not choose to be represented by a union, we truly believe we are a stronger organization when we can work together on issues that impact our culture, work environment, professional development, patient care, and your mental, physical, and financial health. That direct relationship— without a union or other third party—is a key factor in achieving our Mission outcomes and building the rich culture and excellence for which all our hospitals and health-care centers are known.
There are many reasons why we prefer to maintain a direct relationship with you:
- We believe in your voice and your ability to speak about issues that are important to
- We have always enjoyed an open-door policy with you, and encourage all team members to ask questions and provide feedback spontaneously through open employee forums, town halls, employee committees including the Employee Engagement Committee, employee rounding, meetings, employee surveys,
- Our direct relationship has led to extremely high employee engagement, which is evident by our employee engagement scores, participation in employee events and programs, and the overall success of our organizations.
- We believe our ability to successfully recruit, hire, retain and promote highly qualified team members would be encumbered by union rules.
- Our flexibility to create programs for the benefit of our team members would be hampered by a third party that is unfamiliar with the needs of our hospital, patients and mission.
- Our ability to provide care and successfully manage our business would potentially be damaged by strikes and work stoppages.