Our Union has been in negotiations with Recovery Cafe for over 8 months. While first contracts can take time to ensure existing benefits are secured and to build upon important issues, our Union Bargaining Team is eager to get to a contract as soon as possible. As prices rise, each week without meaningful wage increases or improvements on healthcare costs is felt deeply by our coworkers.
Read MoreOn March 10, our bargaining committee met again with Recovery Cafe hoping to make significant progress to reach a tentative agreement. We know our core issues are meaningful wage increases, transparency from our Employer, and addressing the high cost of healthcare for our coworkers with dependents.
Read MoreIn March we'll be back at the table, and we are ready to keep up the fight! You are encouraged to join our upcoming Contract Action Team meeting on Thursday, February 19 to hear more.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, January 20 our union Bargaining Team met with Recovery Cafe Management for another session to discuss our hours of work, wages, health care benefits, and vacation accruals. As in previous sessions we hoped to have received full responses from the employer at the table.
Read MoreOn December 8, our union Bargaining Team met with Recovery Cafe Management for another session to discuss wages and health care.
Read MoreOn November 25, our union Bargaining Team met with Recovery Cafe for another bargaining session. We began our discussion asking questions about Management’s plan to support staff to meet the goals at the SODO location, what happens if the goals are not met, and alternatives to a worksite closure.
Read MoreOn Monday, Recovery Cafe announced it was considering the future of its SODO location. This comes after reassurances from the Employer that they had no plans on closing one of their worksites when we brought it up earlier in the bargaining process. The pace of negotiations alongside this new announcement shows why it is vital that we come together and organize—organize to win the contract we deserve, preserve our jobs, and fight for what's best for Recovery Cafe members.
Thursday, November 13 at 7pm our Union is holding an online meeting to discuss how we're feeling, what we know, and how we plan to organize and win what we want.
Thursday, November 13
7pm
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Meeting ID: 856 6584 3592
Passcode: 102822
If you have any questions before our meeting, you can call your Union Rep Allison Hanley: (206) 436-6586.
We met with Recovery Cafe on October 15 to continue our negotiations and introduced our full economic package. Our economic package includes our first pass at meaningful wage increases, a transition to a secure and affordable health care and pension plan, improvements on bereavement leave, a wage classification structure that our bargaining team believes aligns with more equitable wage structure.
Read MoreOur Bargaining Committee has made a lot of progress on non-economic issues, including a big win reaching a tentative agreement on an article addressing Recovery Cafe member harassment of staff. While we are eager to continue bargaining with our Employer, we also want to make sure our coworkers know the aspects of our upcoming economic proposal.
Read MoreOn September 15, our bargaining team met with Recovery Cafe and made significant progress on our harassment language—including language protecting staff if a Recovery Cafe member harasses staff. We are moving through non-economics and plan to introduce economics at an upcoming session. This would include our vacation, healthcare and retirement benefits, wages, and other economic items.
We'll be discussing the next steps in our bargaining process, highlights of the economic proposal, and how we can win what we deserve at our membership meeting this Thursday at 7:00 PM.
We will hold our next contract membership meeting on September 18 at 7:00 PM.
If you have any questions, please reach out to your bargaining team or your union representative Allison Hanley at (206) 436-6586.
We last met with Recovery Café on September 4 to continue our negotiations. Recovery Café has maintained their position that they want to keep the ability to fire or discipline people without giving them a good reason. It is difficult to overstate how radical this position is.
Read MoreOn July 30, we met again with Recovery Cafe. We made progress on outlining a grievance procedure to address potential contract violations that may arise throughout our contract. We also exchanged proposals regarding:
Read MoreOn July 16, we had our first bargaining session with Recovery Cafe. From the beginning, our intent with organizing was to be one bargaining unit – united in our issues and under one contract together. We’re looking forward to continuing negotiations with the goal of one contract for all of us.
Read MoreWelcome to our Union! As we transition from winning our vote for recognition to bargaining our first contract – it is vital that we stay united, transparent, and communicative throughout the process.
Read MoreWe want to give a quick update as not everyone has been attending the weekly/semi-weekly Zoom meetings on Thursdays. In the future, we will invite everyone via gmail calendar when the next meeting is scheduled.
Read MoreWe are the Union. The members of UFCW 3000 are over 50,000 members working in grocery, retail, health care, meat packing, cannabis, & other industries across Washington state, north-east Oregon, and northern Idaho. UFCW 3000 is a chartered member of UFCW International with over 1.4 million workers in North America.
To build a powerful Union that fights for economic, political and social justice in our workplaces and in our communities.
