WhidbeyHealth - Bargaining Begins

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Bargaining Team: Jennifer MacNeill, LabRosalie Nguyen, Pharmacy

Bargaining Update—Day One

April 19, 2023

On Wednesday, April 19, our bargaining team met with management for our first joint negotiation session. We provided management with non-economic proposals on a myriad of topics including, part-time employees, shop steward, Job descriptions, Termination Notice, Nondiscrimination, and much more. We were eager to hear the management’s responses to our initial proposals at our next meeting on June 1, where we also planned to propose more improvements to our union contract. Our team will continue to work hard at the table to get us a strong new contract, but we can’t do it alone. We need the support of all of our coworkers behind us if we are going to get real solutions to the big issues we face!

Bargaining Update—Day Two

June 1, 2023

In the second day of bargaining, the Union proposed language on non-economic issues. Once the non-economic issues are resolved, the Union will propose economic proposals. Bargaining this time around with Whidbey Health is moving quicker than before, as they have hired a new lawyer to represent them. This has allowed us to have multiple proposals and counter proposals passed back and forth. We hope this continues through this bargaining process.

On June 1, we got Tentative Agreements on language around:

  • Semi-annual seniority roster updates

  • Job Postings

  • Masterlists/ Status Reports

  • New Employee Orientation

  • Bulletin Boards

  • Political Action Fund Deductions

  • Bargaining for new Collective Bargaining Agreement and Unpaid Time Off

Our bargaining team continues to fight for language on non-discrimination including changing your badge and email names, over-time for innovative work schedules, Internal Equity, Definitions, Work week and work day language, Labor management committee, Equity Review, and ensuring you only have to give 14 days notice to resign and more. We are hoping to quickly move to resolve the rest of these articles so we can move onto the economic portion of the bargaining.

Please join us for one of our upcoming Virtual Contract Action Team meetings on Wednesday, June 7 at 1PM and 6PM.

We’ll discuss what we can do in the field to help support our team at the table! RSVP below:

If you have any questions about the bargaining process, please contact Union Rep Celia at (360) 419-4678.