Community Labor Partnerships

Fundamental to stable neighborhoods are living wage jobs and economic opportunities for residents in the Valley. MVOC sees community labor partnerships as a key piece of its work. In September 2008, SEIU 1199 and MVOC held a joint public meeting with new Forum Health CEO Walter Pishkur to discuss the future of Forum Health, a fair contract for the 1,100 members at the hospital system, and for additional community representation on the Forum Board.

A new contract has been reached and MVOC is in ongoing conversations with new CEO Walter Pishkur. On a statewide level, we joined leaders from UFCW 1059 on a visit of 250 people to Cincinnati Processing's corporate headquarters to drop of 2,500 postcards and demand they negotiate to improve working conditions for immigrant workers. The same day we dropped by the president of Cincinnati state with SEIU Local 3 to discuss his failure to provide janitors health care benefits.