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CAST YOUR VOTE ON THE TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED
BY YOUR BARGAINING COMMITTEE!

Here is our schedule for VOTING next week:
Friday, December 12th

•             Jacob Duman JCC, Rm 274, 11:00am-2:00pm, 23280 N Old McHenry Rd, Lake Zurich

•             Am Shalom JCC, Rm 9, 11:30am-1:45pm, 840 Vernon Ave, Glencoe

Monday, December 15th

•             Bernard Weinger JCC, Rm 157, 11am-2pm, 300 Revere Dr, Northbrook

•             Beth Emet JCC, Upstairs Office, 11am-2pm, 1224 Dempster St, Evanston

Tuesday, December 16th

•             JUF EZRA Multi-Service Center, TBD, 9:30am-10:30am, 909 W Wilson Ave, Chicago

•             Jewish United Fund, Rm 6101, 11am-2pm, 30 S Wells, Chicago

•             Bernard Horwich Center, Heller Rm, 12pm-2pm, 3003 W Touhy Ave, Chicago

Wednesday, December 17th

•             CJE Weinberg Community for Senior Living, Basement Employee Break Room, 7am-12pm, 1551 Lake Cook Rd, Deerfield

Thursday, December 18th

•             CJE Adult Day Services, Employee Break Room, 12pm-2pm, 1015 W Howard St, Evanston

Friday, December 19th

•             CJE Weinberg Community for Senior Living, Basement Employee Break Room, 12pm-5pm, 1551 Lake Cook Rd, Deerfield

Bargaining Update – 09.30.25
At yesterday’s bargaining session, we concluded discussions on non-economic proposals with an agreement on a fair system for requesting winter holidays off at CJE Long-Term Care facilities. Several items, such as union membership and flex time at the Knapp School, have been deferred into our future economic discussions.

While management sought to end discussions on the Knapp school’s demand, members leapt in action. On Friday, September 26 our members organized a worksite meeting to discuss bargaining and the issues important to them. Together they came to a better understanding of their rights in the workplace and how to address ongoing problems, and also learned that in order to keep fighting on the issue of flex time they needed to take action. With bargaining happening in just a couple of days, they drafted a petition outlining their position on the matter and got as many coworkers to sign on to it as they couple. When we delivered our response, our Chief Steward, also an employee at the Knapp School, read the petition and we handed it over to management. We reiterated our demand for movement on this issue. This directly led to management asking to continue discuss the matter rather than outright rejecting our proposal. We look forward to see a resolution to this in a future bargaining session!

SEIU also brought its first set of economic proposals around several key issues. Firstly, brought our demands for improved paid time off that reduces or eliminates the tiered system that separates paid personal time benefits by date of hire. Our proposal would put most employees on a single table to accruing time off within their agency and seeks to add additional weeks that can be accrued through seniority.

Secondly, we brought our demand for free dependent daycare for all JCC employees at JCC Early Childhood Programs. We know that even with the discount available currently to employees, the cost of daycare is too expensive.

Lastly, we brought a proposal around leaves to improve sick time, enhance bereavement leave, and paid parental leave. We hope to bring the Agencies up to a new standard that allows parents to be able to thrive at their work and have the time they require to bond with their newborns.

After presenting and discussing these items, management also engaged us on the side letters included our contract, including around sick time during pandemics, flex time at JCFS, vacations at JCC, and matters related to JCFS clinicians.

With the holidays coming up, we return to bargaining on October 17 at the Bernard Horwich building (3003 W Touhy Ave). As we head into economic discussions, it is important as many employees as possible support our demands by becoming a union member. Activate your membership here!

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