Trios Health - Bargaining Update

Trios Health
Bargaining Update

Our bargaining committee met with the Employer for our first bargaining session and began discussions on the priorities members identified for this bargaining cycle. These priorities include retention and recruitment, on-call provisions, wage increases, a three-year contract, and other proposals aimed at improving working conditions.

During this session, we presented our proposals and discussed these important issues with the Employer. This meeting marked the beginning of the bargaining process and gave both parties the opportunity to outline their priorities. We are now awaiting the Employer’s response and anticipate receiving it during our next bargaining sessions on July 16 and 17.

Our bargaining committee remains committed to advocating for a fair contract that reflects the value of your work. We will continue to keep you informed as negotiations move forward.

“We are working hard to represent all members of the Union and are committed to bringing the concerns of all to the bargaining table. We have submitted our initial proposal and are waiting for a response. Please join us on July 8. Thank you for your support.”

What's Next

Bargaining Update Meeting

July 8
6pm - 7:30pm

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Upcoming Trainings

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Bargaining Team: Kelsey Webb, Karen Campbell, Tami Ottenbreit, Holly Hurst, Yesenia Ellis

Please reach out to our Bargaining Team or your Union Rep, Juanita Quezada, at (509) 340-7407, if you have any questions or concerns.

OMC Service - Our Bargaining Team Pushes Forward on Member Priorities

OMC Service
Our Bargaining Team Pushes Forward on Member Priorities

Our Bargaining Team met with Olympic Medical Center on June 29 and continued advancing proposals that reflect the priorities members have been raising. Our Team came prepared and focused on language that protects seniority, strengthens job posting and transfer rights, and addresses scheduling concerns for Service workers.

Our Union passed proposals that would improve monthly status reports to the Union, strengthen new hire orientation access, and protect seniority rights in job openings, transfers, layoffs, recalls, promotions, and shift changes. Our Team also proposed language to address variable shifts, including protections against being scheduled for day, evening, and night shifts in the same workweek.

What Our Team Proposed

Protect seniority — Seniority should matter when it comes to layoffs, recalls, transfers, shift changes, promotions, and job vacancies when qualifications are equal.

Improve job posting rights — Our Union proposed that regular job openings be posted internally before being posted externally, giving current workers the first opportunity to apply.

Address work rotation and variable shifts — Our Team proposed protections so workers are not scheduled to work day shift, evening shift, and night shift in the same workweek. The proposal also protects workers from being required to rotate between day shift one week and night shift the following week.

Strengthen benefits and leave language — Our Union also passed proposals around lead pay, vacation scheduling, paid sick leave carryover, bereavement leave, and expanding the definition of immediate family to include family members such as niece, nephew, aunt, uncle, and first cousin.

What We Are Still Fighting For

Our Bargaining Team is continuing to fight for language that respects Service workers' work, protects seniority, creates fair access to job opportunities, improves transparency, and gives workers more stability in their schedules.

Next Bargaining Session

July 14, 2026

Stay United and Stay Ready

The strength of this campaign comes from members standing together. Our Team will continue to bring member priorities to the table and fight for a contract that protects OMC Service workers.

Stay united, stay engaged, and stay ready.

St. Michael Medical Center Service & Dietary - Bargaining Update

St. Michael Medical Center Service & Dietary
Bargaining Update

Friday, June 26

We met with the Employer again on Friday, June 26, to continue negotiations toward a new contract. This came one day after our Pro-Tech Union siblings had an unproductive bargaining session of their own, which they described as a “big waste of time.”

Unfortunately, our bargaining session was not much different.

While the parties exchanged several proposals throughout the day, very little progress was made, especially on economics. The Employer’s current wage proposal for all workers is:

• 2.25% in year one

• 2.25% in year two

• 2.00% in year three

What makes this especially frustrating is that the Employer has continued to ignore many of our key economic proposals, including proposals to improve premiums such as shift differential, lead pay, and weekend premium. Our Union Bargaining Team took the time to carefully develop these proposals because they directly impact members’ lives and reflect the real challenges workers are facing. Having those priorities dismissed or left unanswered is unacceptable.

The day ended early because several members of management’s team needed to leave early. This has now happened during the last two bargaining sessions. Our Bargaining Team continues to come prepared and ready to bargain, but it is frustrating when management does not show the same urgency to reach a fair agreement.

Our technical UFCW 3000 Union siblings both here and at St. Joseph Medical Center, who have the same contract expiration date, also bargained this last week and experienced a similar lack of progress. Our Bargaining Team is working to coordinate with their team to discuss how we can work together to win fair contracts for all units, keep Virginia Mason Franciscan Health facilities competitive with the market, and set standards that will recruit and retain high-quality staff.

We encourage everyone to join our next virtual Contract Action Team (CAT) Meeting on July 9 at 4pm, where we will announce the next steps in this campaign.

CAT Meeting

July 9, 2026
4pm

Downtown Dog Lounge - Memorandum of Understanding Extension Vote Scheduled; Our Bargaining Team Recommends a YES Vote!

Downtown Dog Lounge
Memorandum of Understanding Extension Vote Scheduled; Our Bargaining Team Recommends a YES Vote!

Our Downtown Dog Lounge Bargaining Team has reached a proposed Memorandum of Understanding extension with management and recommends a YES vote to approve the agreement. This MOU extension continues the agreement previously reached between Downtown Dog Lounge and UFCW Local 3000. Members will have the opportunity to review the MOU, ask questions, and vote on whether to approve the extension.

MOU Extension Vote

July 13, 2026
12pm - 2pm
Downtown Dog Lounge - South Lack Union Break Room
Downtown Dog Lounge - Ballard Break Room

Our Bargaining Team will be available during the vote to review the MOU extension, answer questions, and provide members with the information needed before voting.

For questions, contact your Union Rep.

We Are the Union. Together, We Win.

St. Michael Medical Center Professional-Technical-Clinical Support - Bargaining Update - A Big Waste of Time

We met with the Employer again on Thursday, June 25. All proposals were in the Employer’s court for response. Our Bargaining Team came prepared and hopeful that real progress could be made.

Unfortunately, the Employer was not ready to present proposals until 1:30pm. When they finally did meet with us, we were disappointed and frustrated to learn that they only had non-economic responses. They cited a lack of approval from higher management as the reason they could not respond to key economic proposals.

On economics, the Employer specifically pointed to a lack of approval to provide a meaningful response on health care, an issue we have still not received any counterproposal on. At this point, even if the Employer provided a counterproposal on all other economic issues, it would be extremely difficult for our Bargaining Team to respond without first receiving answers about the future of our health care costs.

Therefore, the Employer’s proposal on wages from our last session still stands:

• 2.50% in year one

• 2.50% in year two

• 2.25% in year three

What little the Employer did counter made almost no meaningful progress and did not address the issues that matter most to workers. The Employer continues to hold firm to its proposal to force workers to wear specific scrub colors by job classification, at workers’ own expense. They also proposed lopsided language that would treat members of our bargaining unit inequitably when it comes to recognizing experience, depending on job classification. And they continue to reject our reasonable safety proposal to increase security presence in the Family Birth Center.

Our Bargaining Team was able to quickly respond to the limited proposals the Employer did pass. But after only a few hours of actual bargaining, the Employer stated that they still did not have the approvals needed to provide further responses. As a result, we ended the day early, even though bargaining had already started late.

Our technical UFCW 3000 Union siblings at St. Joseph Medical Center, who have the same contract expiration date, also bargained this week and experienced a similar lack of progress. Our Bargaining Team is working to coordinate with their team to discuss how we can work together to win fair contracts for both units, keep Virginia Mason Franciscan Health facilities competitive with the market, and set standards that will recruit and retain high-quality staff.

We encourage everyone to join our next virtual Contract Action Team (“CAT”) Meeting on July 1 at 4pm, where we will announce the next steps in this campaign.

“The Employer came totally unprepared to be productive in bargaining.”

— Merry Brandt-MacFann

“They wasted our time and came back unprepared. So let’s be prepared and have everybody join our CAT Meeting at 4pm on July 1!”

— Rob Shauger

“When we bargain with the Employer, we are pulling resources from the hospital because our shifts need to be covered. So when management isn’t ready to bargain, it is just a waste of those resources.”

— Angela Roberson

• CAT Meeting

• July 1

• 4pm

• Zoom

Bargaining Team: Robel Haile, Clinical Pharmacist; Bryson Andrews, ED Tech; Olivia Almeida, Respiratory Therapist; Merry Brandt-MacFann, CT Technologist; Lara Williams-Graham, Certified Surgical Technologist; Angela Roberson, EP Technologist; Rob Shauger, CNA

Ron’s Super 1 Hayden Meat Contract Vote Scheduled!

Wednesday July 15 at 1pm at Ron’s Super 1 Hayden, 240 W. Hayden Ave, Hayden Idaho 83835

Read the FRS document >>

MultiCare - United at MultiCare

We are the thousands of UFCW 3000 members at MultiCare Health Systems. We provide care for our patients every day. As we say, “We put the Care in MultiCare.” But for years we have known that there are thousands of workers at MultiCare who are not part of our union but could be. Over the past year, more and more workers are joining together in UFCW 3000. Just last week 138 more officially joined at the Mary Bridge Therapies. And 32 PROs at Cap Medical Center who joined last year are in their first contract bargain. And 15 more at the Women’s Clinic will begin to bargain their first contract soon.

“Since we won our union at MultiCare, they have dragged their feet in negotiations for a first contract. Now, after a year of hard bargaining, they appear willing to move on some major items – but ONLY if we accept terms that weaken our power before we even get started. If we’re patient, stand together and refuse to be played, we can overcome this hurdle and get the contract we need. MultiCare fought us when we tried to form our union, and now they want us to accept a contract that weakens our ability to defend and improve our working conditions. We need to stay strong. We work in the same hospital. We need the same rights.”

— Ruyang He, Pharmacist, one of 32 PROs negotiating for a first contract with MultiCare

Having more members is part of what we need to build our power so we can sit down and negotiate with MultiCare on issues that impact all workers and our community—safety, staffing, benefits, and wages that result in recruitment and retention. Another part is ensuring all contracts maintain our most basic rights, including Union Security. Union Security is a foundational clause in all of our MultiCare contracts, and it is what allows us to build power as a union and negotiate better contracts with this Employer. Without that clause, our union would become weaker over time.

Right now MultiCare is trying to deny that right to the newly organized PROs at Cap Med Center, who are going back into bargaining on June 29. We all support the UFCW 3000 workers at Capital Medical Center when they say “Same Hospital. Same Rights.”
 

“It’s such great news that 32 Pros at Cap Medical are growing our union and bargaining a first contract. Getting a first contract settled with MultiCare can be tough because they don’t like giving up their unchallenged power over our wages and working conditions. Union Security is a basic standard that we have in all 18 of our union contracts with MultiCare. Union Security means we have true shared power—and that’s why MultiCare is trying to deny it to the Pros at Capital Medical Center. No way! Same Hospital. Same Rights.”

— Dennis Verellen, RN, Capital Medical Center

 “Union security in a contract is like management rights. Union security allows us to be a union. Management rights allow MultiCare to run their hospital. MultiCare would never let us tell them how to run their hospitals. And we can never let them tell us how to run our union by denying union security. They’ve decided to pick on you because you’re just thirty-two Pros at Cap Medical and you are rightfully determined to set high standards in your first union contract. But since you voted to form your union, you’re no longer thirty-two—you’ve become part of the thousands of UFCW 3000 health care workers at MultiCare. We stand with you.”

— Patricia Brown, LPN, Tacoma General 

And this current battle for a fair contract is connected to all of our contracts. We need to begin coming together and getting ready for 2027. Stay tuned for more information as this campaign grows and as more and more workers at MultiCare join our union.

Preparing for 2027

We are preparing for the big 2027 MultiCare bargains, and part of that preparation is standing in solidarity with our coworkers who are fighting for first contracts.

If you know of others at MultiCare who want to join UFCW 3000, please contact a UFCW 3000 Union Organizer by calling or texting 206-414-9601.

Learn more about organizing your union >>

If you have questions about what you can do to build power for your contract so we can negotiate improved safety, staffing, pay, benefits and protect our rights at work, contact your Union Reps:

• Penny Cramer, 206-436-6559

• Ian Jacobson, 206-436-6550

• Charlie King, 206-436-6518

“This has been a long, hard process for the Pros. And they didn’t come all this way to let MultiCare take away your power at the starting line. We’ve had hard bargains with MultiCare before, and we know how to bring them around. We can’t get everything we want, but we sure won’t allow them to take away what we need. And we need Union Security. Stay strong. We’ve got each other’s back. Same Hospital. Same Rights!”

— Demarious Jenkins, Dietary Tech, Capital Medical Center

“The PROs have been in bargaining for a year. MultiCare made them wait, wait, and wait some more for a serious response to your proposals. And now they’re saying they’ll give PROs lots of stuff if they just give up Union Security. Why? Because they want to permanently weaken our union by picking on this newly organized group. They tried things like this with us at Tacoma General. But we stood firm on the things we absolutely needed, and we won a strong contract, including union security. It is imperative that we maintain our Union Security and stand strong in solidarity with all our union co-workers throughout the MultiCare system.”

— Gregg Barney, Print Shop Operator, Tacoma General 

“MultiCare is not being honest with you. When MultiCare tries to push a contract without Union Security, we need to be careful and patient, or they’ll take one of the foundations of our power—union security. We are united in support of the PROs. Unless everyone is included in a union contract, all our contracts are at risk of becoming weaker. Union Security is a basic standard in all of our union’s contracts with MultiCare.”

— Alex Kolva, Nutritionist, Tacoma General

Rosauers Suncrest Meat Contract Vote Scheduled!

Tuesday, July 7 at 11:30am

Rosauers Suncrest 5912 WA-291, Nine Mile Falls WA 99026

Gains include:

• Above Area Standard Wage Increases

• Affordable Healthcare

• Increase in Sunday Premium

• Improved Vacation Language

Whidbey Health Pro Tech LPN - Bargaining Update

Management met with us Tuesday, June 16 for a short bargaining session. In response to their proposals, we provided them a comprehensive package that addresses our need to stay competitive with other employers and around our community. We are waiting to hear back from them and also anticipating future bargaining dates.

Attend the Contract Action Team meeting on July 8 from 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm at the Sno-Isle Public library meeting room for updates and information about your contract:

Sno-Isle Public Library
1000 SE Regatta Dr
Oak Harbor, WA 98277

For additional information, contact Union Rep Marilyn Faber at 360-419-4678 or a Bargaining Team member.
 

Bargaining Team: Jennifer MacNeill, Caitlyn Korkoskie, Cassie Anderson

Pacific Dental Alliance (Affordable Dental & Sterling Dental) - Contract Ratified

Pacific Dental Alliance (Affordable Dental & Sterling Dental)
Contract Ratified

On Monday, June 15, we unanimously ratified our next Collective Bargaining Agreement. Some of the new wins in this contract include:

• Wage increases

• Increased 401(k)

• Increased Employer health care contribution

• Improved grievance process

Links to the Redline and Vote Summary here! >>

"Negotiations provide an opportunity for workers to have a voice and influence decisions that directly affect their lives."

If you have questions, please reach out to our Union Rep David Trujillo at (206) 436-6606 or Charlie King at (206) 436-6518.

Tri Cities Health Community Health RNs - Tentative Agreement Reached! Contract Vote Scheduled

Tri Cities Health Community Health RNs
Tentative Agreement Reached! Contract Vote Scheduled

Our Bargaining Team met with the Employer and reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) on June 17, 2026.

After bargaining and standing together, we are excited to announce that we are saying goodbye to a four-year contract and hello to a three-year contract!

Some of the highlights of the Tentative Agreement include:

• Wage increases

• Temporary assignment pay

• Retroactive pay

"Every gain at the bargaining table is the result of workers speaking with one united voice."

What's Next

The Tentative Agreement will be presented to the membership, followed by a vote.

Contract Vote

June 26
6:30am - 7:30am
Bridges Conference Room
800 Court Street
Pasco, WA

Bargaining Team: Sophia Rubalcava, RN; Hilda Torres, RN; Carina Gonzalez, RN

UFCW 3000 members in good standing are encouraged to attend a meeting, ask questions, and vote on the contract. Please reach out to our Bargaining Team or our Union Rep, Juanita Quezada, at (509) 340-7407, if you have any questions or concerns.