Skagit Regional Health - It’s Time to Act, SRH Members!
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“We are working hard to get a contract that meets the needs of the ever-changing work environment. Work life balance and retaining quality staff is important. In order to make that happen we need to show management we are united.”
— Rindi Atkins, Radiology Tech
Your Bargaining Team:
Aaron St. John – Central Supply Tech
Alina Delano – Ultrasound Tech
Ashley Price – Medical Assistant
Jill Douglass – Data Entry Clerk
Maria Muñoz – Environmental Aid
Megan Osborn – Med Tech
Mike Koenig – Engineer
Rindi Atkins – Radiology Tech
Thomas Kean – Exercise Physiologist
Katie Davis – Social Worker
Cindy Tjaded – Surgical Tech
On Wednesday June 8, our bargaining team met with management for the eighth joint negotiation session.
We presented management with various counter proposals and we able to come reach tentative agreements on several topics, including an enhanced Labor Management Committee, a modification of our no strike clause to ensure we can support other unions during their collective actions, and a revision of our Staffing Concern Form that will make it more accessible. Management; also provided several counter proposals of their own. While some of these proposals show promise, it is clear we are still far apart on some of the topics that are most important to us, like our demand that we have more control over how staffing and scheduling is handled.
With each tentative agreement we move more items off the table and clear the path towards negotiating some of the biggest priorities in our next contract: higher wages and better benefits. In order to ensure management will keep up the pace and continue to work with us as we get into these tough topics, it is important that we keep up the pressure and show management we are serious about fighting for a strong contract. It’s for this reason we have decided to hold a sticker up action on Tuesday June 21, the day before our next session. Our stickers send a clear message, “Support our Staff, Support our Patients” by wearing them we are letting management, our coworkers, and our patients that we need management to support us with a strong contract so we have the resources and staffing we need to provide the best care possible. We know that if on the 21st each of us as all our coworkers are wearing these stickers, management will have no choice but to hear our pleas at the table for better working conditions and higher wages.
The stickers have already been delivered to each department and places in common locations such as break rooms. Please take as many as you need for yourself and coworkers and wear them on June 21. If your department or workplace does not have any stickers, please call our Union Rep Celia at (360) 419-4678 and we can arrange to get them to you.
With the support of you and all our coworkers in the field, we know we can win the strong contract we deserve at the table.
You’re Invited!
RSVP to Our CAT Meetings
We will also be holding our next contract action meetings on June 21 via Zoom at 1PM and 6PM, if you haven’t RSVP’d to join one yet, please do so below!
Tuesday, June 21
1:00PM
6:00PM
