MultiCare Update - "Stop the disrespect!"
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“Stop the disrespect!”
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 this week.
We spent countless hours working through the outstanding issues on the table, trying to come up with a counteroffer that might be more acceptable to the Employer but still address our members’ concerns. For example, the Union floated the idea of allowing the PTO-WS program but, instead of a use it or lose it system, hours would instead roll back into our standard PTO bank at the end of the year. However, we told management that if they expect us to make real movement on the PTO issue, they first need to guarantee that we will not lose PTO hours AND must make movement on several of our proposals.
MultiCare responded with nothing. That is right, management not only failed to make movement. They failed to make a proposal altogether. We are working hard to have a constructive dialog with management, but they continuously treat our efforts with disrespect. It is extremely frustrating that we have had 15 bargaining sessions and have made so little progress just because MultiCare “is not interested” in changing the status quo.
At this point, the only way to get MultiCare “interested” in change is if we get the community involved in our fight. That is why we have planned a Community Car Caravan for Thursday May 13 @ 3pm, where we will hear from the bargaining team then drive our cars over to Tacoma General. MultiCare members and community leaders will join together, showing management that we stand in solidarity for a fair contract.
Your Bargaining Team will meet with Management again on May 11, 18, 25, 27, and June 1.
RSVP to join the Community Car Caravan!
Thursday, May 13
3 PM
Shiloh Baptist Church
1211 S I St
Tacoma, Wa 98405
>>Click HERE to RSVP<<
