Olympic Medical Center - ProTech - Contract Vote Scheduled
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Your Professional-Technical Unit Bargaining Team has reached a fully recommended tentative agreement with Olympic Medical Center! We have been bargaining over wages, working conditions, and the short-term disability program since May 2020. During bargaining, we did an analysis of our wages compared to the surrounding hospitals and other rural hospitals in the area. OMC proposed to retire our “short term disability” program and we gave this a lot of thought. Our short-term disability program provides 60% or 75% wage compensation per week. We fought to keep our plan but heard from the unit that wages should take priority. In addition, the new Washington Paid Family Medical Leave provides a higher benefit and accrual than our current short-term disability program.
There are more details to our tentative agreement, which we will go over in depth via a Zoom video webinar on July 9 at 7:30 AM and 4:30 PM (the link will be included with the vote documents). Please join us on either date to ask questions and go over the vote documents. Given the pandemic, we are unable to hold an in-person contract ratification vote and will be doing a mail-in ballot. The Union will be mailing and posting the vote documents on the UFCW 21 website through the link provided below.
If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact our union representative, Aimee Oien at aoien@ufcw21.org or our negotiator, Evelyn Orantes-Fogel at eorantesfogel@ufcw21.org.
Virtual Vote Meeting Webinar
Thursday, July 9 • 7:30 AM • 4:30 PM
Details for joining will be mailed and emailed out with vote instructions. To review a copy of the full legal document with all proposed changes please view the document here.
