Following a day of vote meetings at the Puyallup, Sunrise, & Bonney Lake Women’s Center clinics on Monday, March 3, our union bargaining team are proud to announce that our agreement has been ratified UNANIMOUSLY!
Read MoreFollowing just two bargaining dates with MultiCare management to negotiate the terms and conditions of Women's Center employees' entry into the UFCW 3000/MultiCare Clinics union contract, our bargaining team is overjoyed to announce that we have come to a tentative agreement!
So what does that mean?
Simply put, this means that our union bargaining team has reached a final agreement with MultiCare on the part of the contract which will outline how we officially join the clinics Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The reason this is called a tentative agreement is because the next step is that we all vote on whether we accept the agreement. Permitting the majority of us agree, the process set forth will begin.
We have scheduled votes for all of you to come by, review the agreement, and cast your ballot! We encourage all newly-represented Women's Center employees to attend, and as such we've worked to coordinate votes at all three locations:
Meeting rooms are pending confirmation from the Employer, an update will be sent from UFCW once verified!
Monday, March 3, 2025:
Puyallup MultiCare Women's Center
7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunrise MultiCare Women's Center
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Bonney Lake MultiCare Women's Center
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
"This entire process, from organizing our union, winning our election, then meeting with management to negotiate our Agreement, has been tough- but we're so proud to say that we have come to an Agreement that benefits all members at the Women's Centers!"
—Carol Kring
Your Bargaining Team L-R: Liam Hughes, Medical Assistant @ Sunrise Women's Clinic; Tracey Fleming, Nurse Navigator @ Puyallup Women's Clinic; Carol Krings, Medical Receptionist @ Puyallup Women's Clinic.
Following our union election victory in August of 2024, we're excited to share that our MultiCare Women's Center bargaining team had its first day of contract negotiations with management on Thursday, February 6!
In preparation for our first meeting with management, we spent this morning finalizing the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)—an addition to the union contract—that outlines how Women's Center employees will be integrated into the UFCW/MultiCare Clinics collective bargaining agreement. Our proposal, which we later presented to the Employer, includes key provisions such as:
How union seniority will apply to Women's Clinics employees
Preserving and protecting the vacation/PTO we earned prior to being union, and how we will accrue paid time off moving forward,
And most importantly, how we transition to being paid on the union wage scales!
In simple terms, our position is that the most fair and equitable way to compensate us is by providing full credit for our years of relevant experience—because this is where the true value we bring to MultiCare lies!
After presenting our initial proposal to MultiCare, we were encouraged by the momentum we gained throughout the day, resulting in a total of three productive meetings with management.
Overall, we're optimistic about the progress made, and feel confident that we are on the right path toward reaching an agreement with the Employer.
We're looking forward to our next bargaining session on February 13, where we'll continue working toward securing a strong contract for Women's Center workers!
"Winning our union election was a monumental first step, and today, sitting together at the bargaining table feels like our second major victory. We got here by standing united, and together, we know that even more wins are on the way!"
—Liam Hughes, Medical Assistant
Your bargaining team [L-R]:
Liam Hughes, Medical Assistant @ Sunrise Women's Clinic; Tracey Fleming, Nurse Navigator @ Puyallup Women's Clinic; Carol Krings, Medical Receptionist @ Puyallup Women's Clinic.
On the morning of November 20, our Women's Center Clinics bargaining team met to finalize proposals to kick-off negotiations with MultiCare. Now that we have won our union election, we are eager to enter the existing Clinics Collective Bargaining Agreement with UFCW Local 3000!
In order to prepare, we spent time reviewing wages, PTO, and a number of the articles in the existing contract to make sure that we are coming to our first day of negotiations with MultiCare stronger than ever. The terms of our bargain will mainly focus on how we are compensated on the union pay scales, and how the existing provisions of the union contract will impact our wages, hours, and working conditions.
After our review of the existing contract- and making sure our specific proposals matched the work we do at the Women's Center clinics- we provided availability to management through January 2025. We look forward to hearing back & getting to the bargaining table to fully realize our position as union members!
Once dates are set, we will continue to keep our coworkers in the loop throughout the process with bargaining updates after each session with the Employer.
"We're looking forward to moving forward! We feel stronger than ever before after seeing how high our unit's support for unionizing was. I think we're just feeling energized by the position we're in!"
—Liam Hughes, Medical Assistant @ Women's Center Sunrise; Carol Krings, Medical Receptionist @ Women's Center Puyallup
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