Our bargaining team met with management on Wednesday and made a lot of progress on the language of our contract. We were able to get management to move off of some of their proposals. We have reached tentative agreements around:

• Ability to grieve all levels of discipline.

• Capturing Planned Parenthood’s Paid Parental Leave policy in our contract.

• Notification to the union in advance of any reduction to healthcare or retirement plans.

• Layoff process for workers not assigned to one location (float clinicians & community outreach educators).

• Maintaining seniority if laid off then recalled.

• Clarification to access to benefits during probation period.

• Clarification to vacation cashout at the end of employment.

• Cleanup/clarifications to our Union Security language.

Your Bargaining Team: Charlie King, PAC Rep - Tacoma; Monalisa Baumann, MA - Federal Way; Jennifer Morgan, PCC - Tacoma; Sage Alixander, Insurance Biller - Seattle

We expect to make economic proposals at our next bargaining session on June 8.

There are still a few outstanding issues on the table that we need your input on as we move into the economic part of our negotiations.

Your voices help to bring real stories to the bargaining table. Please fill out the bargaining topics survey here: bit.ly/pp-issuesurvey