Harbor Regional Health - Contract Ratified

Harbor Regional Health
Contract Ratified

Contracts for the Professional, Technical, Service and Maintenance, Business Office and Medical Records units have been overwhelmingly approved! Over several months of bargaining, workers and community members let Management know that wages and staffing conditions must improve.

Increases to wages are effective the first full pay period after ratification. Both the wage increases and ratification bonus will be included in the Friday, December 30 paycheck.

For further information contact a Bargaining Team member or Union Rep Brandan Zielinski @ (206) 436-6603.

Harbor Regional Health Bargaining Team (L-R): Debbie Sturm, Janet Byrd, Daniel James, Ricki Franklin, Bambi Shope

Harbor Regional Health TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED!

Harbor Regional Health TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED!

Our Bargaining Team has reached a tentative agreement on a new three year contract and recommends a yes vote! We are excited to announce that the new agreement includes:

SIGNIFICANT WAGE INCREASES for all jobs!

• Ratification Bonus!

• Improved PTO Cash Out!

• Increased Certification Pay!

• Better PTO Scheduling Language!

• Reinforced Worker Protections!

• Full details of the contract offer will be available during the vote.

Contract Vote Drop in: Monday, November 28:

6:30am — 8:30am, 11:30am — 1:30pm, 3:30pm — 5:30pm

in Conference Room A (Ground floor of the Hospital)

All members in good standing are eligible to vote.

For additional information about the vote, contact any Bargaining Team Member or Union Representative Brandan Zielinski: 206-436-6603

Harbor Regional Health - HRH Management is Starting to Get it

Your Bargaining Team: Janet Byrd, Ricki Franklin, Dan James, Bambi Shope, Debbie Sturm.

After months of being severely understaffed and unable to hire, HRH is starting to make the connection and come to the table with proposals recognizing the high cost of living and pay at surrounding hospitals. (The connection may also have something to do with the large group of energetic picketers marching in front of the hospital a few weeks ago!)

The Union Bargaining Committee met with management on October 24 and we traded proposals. 

We were scheduled to meet November 3 but management notified us at the last minute that they couldn’t meet. The Union Bargaining team made good use of the time to review management’s current proposals and plan for our next session November 15. We are hopeful that management will come back to the table prepared to get this done!

For more information or to get involved, reach out to Union Representative Brandan Zielinski at bzielinski@ufcw3000.org or (206) 436-6603.

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Harbor Regional Health - Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Informational Picket!

Harbor Regional Health

Members of the local community came out along with many hospital workers to send a strong message to management: We need a contract NOW! At the end of the Informational Picket community members stepped up and spoke to HRH workers offering overwhelming support! It was a beautiful fall day, a perfect day to make some noise in front of Harbor Regional Health.

Harbor Regional Heath - Fired Up & Ready for Action

Your Bargaining Team: Janet Byrd, Ricki Franklin, Dan James, Bambi Shope, Debbie Sturm.

Our Bargaining Team met with management on Friday August 26. Management made a proposal almost identical to the last one they gave us but in a different format. This time they gave a wage scale. All of the previous proposals have been percentages. They tried to make it seem like the proposal was new and wonderful, but our bargaining team spent a large part of Friday crunching the numbers and not much has changed.

Our Contract Action Team Meeting was Tuesday, August 30, and we discussed how we are going to move Management off of their ridiculous proposals. 

Everyone is fired up!!

We talked about spreading the word and getting the community involved, reaching out to other labor groups and informational pickets. 

Sign the strike pledge card to let management know you are willing to do whatever it takes to win a fair contract:

“I’m tired of seeing the same proposals, every time!” 

— Janet Byrd, Bargaining Team

Harbor Regional Health - Management is Unprepared

Your Bargaining Team: Janet Byrd, Ricki Franklin, Dan James, Bambi Shope, Debbie Sturm.

Our bargaining team was scheduled to meet with management on Friday. The bargaining team met at 9:00am and waited for management’s proposal. Management contacted us around 11:00am and said they were working on a complex counter proposal and wouldn’t be able to get it to us that day.

They had three weeks to get ready! Yet again they came to bargaining unprepared!

Hundreds of workers are relying on management to do what’s right and pay them what they deserve.

We do our jobs—management needs to do theirs!

We need management to see we are prepared to do what it takes to get this contract. Talk to your coworkers about signing the strike pledge card.

Join us for our next Contract Action Team Meeting

Tuesday, August 30 • 6:00 PM

Duffy’s

1605 Simpson Avenue

Aberdeen, WA 98520

See you there!

GHCH/HRH Workers Unite!

Buttons are showing up on so many workers at HRH! Keep wearing buttons!

On Thursday, August 11, union members joined forces to distribute buttons on both campuses. The buttons are being worn in solidarity with the HRH Bargaining Team demanding a fair contract. We will continue to wear the buttons. 

Starting today—Monday, August 15—we will be distributing a Strike Pledge Card.

In solidarity with the Bargaining Team, the Strike Pledge Cards let management know that we are willing to do whatever it takes to get a fair contract! 

If you have questions or concerns, contact Union Representative Brandan Zielinski at BZielinski@ufcw3000.org or call him at 206-436-6603.

Your Bargaining Team: Janet Byrd, Ricki Franklin, Dan James, Bambi Shope, Debbie Sturm.

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Grays Harbor Harbor Regional Health - Bargaining Continues

Our union bargaining team has been hard at work creating a stronger and more efficient agreement between employees and management. We are proposing real wage increases because we have given up increases for the sake of the hospital. We are behind and need to catch up. 

We are proposing wages:

• That are competitive with other local hospitals 

• That meet the increasing cost of living

• That recognize our value to the hospital and the community 

We have worked through difficult times facing the ongoing staff shortages that require you to work twice as hard!

Thanks for the burger HRH but show us the money!

For additional information or to get involved contract your union representative Brandan Zielinski @ (206) 436-6603.

“I joined the bargaining team to put my passion for social justice into action to benefit my coworkers and family. I grew up in union households and want to honor all those who have sacrificed for worker’s protections”

— Ricki Franklin, Medical Social Worker and Bargaining Team Member

Your Bargaining Team: Janet Byrd, Ricki Franklin, Dan James, Bambi Shope, Debbie Sturm.

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