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Subject: 32BJ Annual Fall Conference on October 19, 2023

In 2022, the 32BJ Health Fund convened nearly 200 stakeholders—unions and other employers and purchasers, healthcare providers and policy experts, and legislators and other government officials—to discuss actionable solutions to the leading cause of skyrocketing healthcare costs in the US: uncontrolled hospital prices.

The role of hospital prices in driving healthcare cost increases has gained a lot of traction. In New York and throughout the country, a growing movement is calling for more accountability and rationality in hospital pricing and behavior. New legislation has since been introduced and passed. The media is focusing on it, and Congress has held public hearings. Several purchasers have taken decisive action to engage more proactively with hospitals. We are now at a critical juncture to determine the future success of these efforts.

We are excited to share that our 2023 Fall Conference will take place on October 19 in New York City and include a keynote from Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, author of An American Sickness and Editor-in-Chief of KFF Health News. This event will be hosted jointly by the 32BJ Labor Industry Cooperation Fund, the 32BJ Health Fund, and City & State.

Registration and a detailed agenda for the conference can be found here:

https://www.cityandstateny.com/feature/32BJ_Hospital_Prices_Are_we_at_the_tipping_point/?=cb

We hope to see you there.

Warmly,

Howard Rothschild, President

Kyle Bragg, the President of Local 32BJ has retired effective Wednesday, December 7, 2022. Manny Pastreich, the Secretary Treasurer of the Union will be replacing Kyle. John Santos currently the Assistant to the President will be succeeding Manny.

We wish Kyle, Manny, and John all the best.

The terms of the 2022 Apartment Building Agreement were ratified by the membership of Local 32BJ. RAB members are now free to implement the terms of the new agreement. The RAB will be sending Assent forms for the new agreement to its membership shortly. Assent forms should be reviewed, executed, and returned to the RAB promptly.

Please contact the RAB if you have any questions about the agreement or the Assent.

SEIU Local 32BJ and the RAB have agreed to extend recall rights from March 1, 2022, to June 1, 2022, for employees employed under the RAB Commercial Building Agreement and RAB Contractors Agreement. In exchange, Local 32BJ has continued the suspension of productivity limits under the RAB Contractors Agreement and has pushed the rebid and re-sectioning of Commercial Buildings until June 15, 2022.

All RAB members should be advised that all other agreements (including: permitting 12 hour shifts, suspension of better term or condition clauses, AB Time, notice of RIF) with Local 32BJ that were extended in the parties’ December 2021 MOA have expired. The RAB advises its members to return to previous contractual practices on these matters, and to contact the RAB if any member has questions.

Employers in New York State are required to provide training to employees to ensure they understand both the Airborne Infectious Disease Exposure Prevention Standard and the Airborne Infectious Disease Exposure Prevention Plan.

Local 32BJ Training Fund offers FREE online training.

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