Our Union Bargaining Team met with WhidbeyHealth Management on October 12 for a half-day bargaining session. We provided a counter-proposal to Management's last economic proposal. Their counterproposal from the same day was a reiteration of their previous one as far as wages were concerned—they continued to offer a complicated "market-based" set of wage scale adjustments, with altered percentages between steps on the scale, different wage increases for different job classifications, and so forth.

We will be working between now and our next bargaining session on October 26 to analyze their proposal in greater detail so that we may find some way to get to a tentative agreement we can recommend a "YES" vote on.

If you have any questions, please call Union Representative Celia Ponce-Sanchez at (360) 409-0574.

Bargaining Team: Jennifer MacNeill, Medical Technical Lead; Rosalie Nguyen, Pharmacy