Empowering Our Future
Join us in our mission to unionize Children’s Hospital Colorado, ensuring better conditions and care for our children.
Championing Healthcare Workers, Securing the Future of Children’s Hospital Colorado
Our mission is to advocate for the rights and working conditions of healthcare professionals at Children’s Hospital Colorado. By supporting unionization, we aim to enhance patient care, improve staff welfare, and ensure a sustainable healthcare environment.
Discover our mission to unionize Children’s Hospital Colorado, improve healthcare standards, and promote staff well-being. Learn more below.
Each time CHCO makes changes, nurses lose more. Here some things they have done:
- Nurses with PTO over a certain amount had it taken away and paid back at 60% causing them to lose thousands of dollars
- Retention bonuses given to some, but not all staff
- Capped pay
- Our wages do not meet the cost of living in Aurora or Denver
- High turnover. WE are always orienting new nurses just to see them leave because they cannot afford to live in the greater Denver area.
- PTO only for FTE, not for the number of hours worked (a huge savings for the hospital)
- Take It to Heart Bonus is only for FTE and not for number of hours worked. If nurses don’t work those extra hours we would be understaffed during respiratory season.
- RNs get a small percentage of the Take It to Heart bonuses while executives receive a large percentage
- They attempted to take away the Guild after committing to RN’s, it was only continued after the news learned of it and a lawyer said it was newsworthy.
- They actively worked to shut down unionizing a few years ago, which is illegal.
- Contract workers get paid more to teach AHA classes
Look at the compensation for our Senior Leadership…whose pay is NOT capped!!!
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/840166760
Compensation
Key Employees and Officers Compensation Jena Hausmann (President And Ceo) $2,160,753 David Biggerstaff (Evp And Coo (Thru 07/22)) $1,823,750 Dana Moore (Svp And Cio) $1,181,574 Jeffrey Harrington (Svp And Cfo) $960,887 Michelle Lucero (Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel/Secretary) $751,878 Patricia Givens (Retired Svp Chief Nursing Executive)
Jennifer Roth (SVP Chief Nursing Executive)$625,562
???Raphe Schwartz (Svp And Chief Strategy Officer) $594,969 Elizabeth Rodriguez (Svp Chief Hr Officer) $594,227 Suzanne Jaeger (Svp Experience And Access) $568,567 Gregory Raymond (Svp Colorado Springs President) $555,399 Margaret Sabin (Past President Colorado Springs) $490,771 Jerrod Milton (Svp Chief Clinical Officer) $472,570 Amy Feaster (Vp It Associate Cio) $462,022 Charlotte Isoline (Vp Marketing & Communications) $416,281 Bernnett Boakye (Respiratory Therapist Specialist) $400,123 Martin Christopher (Vp Ambulatory Services) $383,576 National Labor Relations Act
In 1935, Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), making clear that it is the policy of the United States to encourage collective bargaining by protecting workers’ full freedom of association. The NLRA protects workplace democracy by providing employees at private-sector workplaces the fundamental right to seek better working conditions and designation of representation without fear of retaliation.
The NLRA is a federal law that grants employees the right to form or join unions; engage in protected, concerted activities to address or improve working conditions; or refrain from engaging in these activities.
https://www.nlrb.gov/resources/faq/nlrb
We are protected by the National Labor Relations Act. It is our right to form a union. It is illegal for CHCO to retaliate against anyone for attempting to form a union.
Here is a link to the 2022-2025 contract for Seattle Children’s. Their cost of living is very similar to ours…their pay is not (see pages 18 and 19 for wage rates).