“After exhaustive market research, we have passed to management our comprehensive wage proposal, which includes fair wage increases for all members.”

Your Bargaining Team: Alexis Dotts, Glen Steele, Gregg Barney, Heidi Strub, Jamie Fenton, Julianna Van Enk, Kelly Gusman, Kurtis Chaffin, Patricia Brown, Ryan Boyd, Sammy Bainivalu, Teri Kruse, Wanda Rodriguez-Ramos, Yvette Broeckel

Your Bargaining Team met with Management again on March 16. At this session we gave Management a number of our economic proposals after weeks of little movement from MultiCare.

Our proposals included: 

• Wage Proposal: Significant wage increases for ALL members, which were proposed after your Bargaining Team conducted extensive research of industry wages throughout the Seattle/Tacoma region. 

• Hazard Pay: Healthcare workers have risked their own health and safety during this pandemic and deserve to be compensated for their risk. City Councils have started to recognize this risk for grocery workers, now it is time for MultiCare to recognize ours. 

• Workforce Development and Training: We brought in experts to craft a workforce development proposal that would ensure that our members have the support they need to access the many underutilized continuing education benefits at MultiCare.

We also made a proposal to address the divisive proposal that Management made earlier in negotiations regarding the clinics. As you may recall, we reluctantly agreed to MultiCare’s proposal to immediately raise the wages of some clinic Medical Assistants (MA) but not others, promising Management that we would make a future proposal to fix the problem. 

That proposal came today, proposing a historic wage increase for MAs that would ensure that everyone is being paid a fair and equitable wage, which still includes further raises for those who already received one. 

You’re invited! Please join our next Contract Action Team meeting on Wednesday, April 7 at 7:30AM or 6:30PM. Hear the latest updates and have your questions answered directly from your Bargaining Team. 

Wednesday, August 19
6:00 PM

Contact your Bargaining Team or Union Rep for call-in details. Details will be also emailed out.

Tell the Bargaining Team about the staffing issues in your department, please spend 5-10 minutes to complete the MultiCare Staffing Survey.

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