HNA Announces Kahuku Hospital RN Contract Ratification

For Immediate Release
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Kahuku, HI ---The Hawai'i Nurses' Association announced the ratification of a three-year contract by Kahuku Hospital Nurses. Eighty percent of the member ballots cast voted to ratify the agreement. "The contract contains excellent provisions and due to the hospital's emergence from bankruptcy, the RNs agreed to compensation stabilization for the first year, with compensation re-openers in the last two years of the contract," said HNA Executive Director Patt A. Gibbs, Esq. Compensation re-openers are scheduled for July 1, 2010 and July 1, 2011.

Highlights of the settlement include:

• Increase in shift differentials for both Evening and Night shifts.
• Increase in On-Call pay.
• One additional paid premium paid Holiday.
• Group Life Insurance doubled (from $10,000 to $20,000) and will be provided at no cost to employees.
• Employer will absorb all Health Plan coverage premium increases from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010

The three-year collective bargaining agreement covers ten RNs at Kahuku Hospital and is effective from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2012.

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HNA was founded in 1917 and is the largest union representing Hawaii’s private sector RNs. HNA is affiliated with the United American Nurses, an AFL-CIO affiliate.
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