After just 8 sessions of bargaining, your Bargaining Team is recommending a YES vote on the proposed new 3-year contract with Lourdes Medical Center.

This contract will: 

• Secure across the bargaining unit wage increase for all members each year of the contract and retro back to January 1, 2023

• Improvements throughout the wage scale

• Increase PTO hours max accrual bank

• Improvement to rest between shift language

• Improvements to premium pays

• Provides process to increase wages mid-contract

• New membership language that will build power within the medical center

• New step increase practice to improve the process of getting increases

Members will need to be in good standing and attend the vote in person. You can also sign up to become a member at the vote.

Join us in voting “YES” at one of these three meetings!

Tuesday, January 31, 2023 

• 6:00am to 8:00am

• 11:00am to 1:00pm

• 4:00pm to 6:00pm 

in the Farley Room

Your bargaining team will be present to answer any questions and complete documents will be provided at the vote for review.

If you have questions, please reach out to your bargaining team members or Union Representative Juanita Quezada at 509-340-7407.

• Melinda McBee, Pharmacy Tech

• Jorge Rodriquez, Surgical Tech: “We worked very hard to accomplish the most for all!”

• Shahna Airoldi, Ultrasound Tech

• Juanita Quezada, Union Representative

• David Coomes, Surgical Tech “The greater the obstacle is the greater the

• Francisco Ramon-Montoya, Rehab: “You will never win if you never begin!”

• Monica Cacioppo, Pharmacy Tech

• Robert Roy, Respiratory Tech