OMC Service - Our Bargaining Team Pushes Forward on Member Priorities

OMC Service
Our Bargaining Team Pushes Forward on Member Priorities

Our Bargaining Team met with Olympic Medical Center on June 29 and continued advancing proposals that reflect the priorities members have been raising. Our Team came prepared and focused on language that protects seniority, strengthens job posting and transfer rights, and addresses scheduling concerns for Service workers.

Our Union passed proposals that would improve monthly status reports to the Union, strengthen new hire orientation access, and protect seniority rights in job openings, transfers, layoffs, recalls, promotions, and shift changes. Our Team also proposed language to address variable shifts, including protections against being scheduled for day, evening, and night shifts in the same workweek.

What Our Team Proposed

Protect seniority — Seniority should matter when it comes to layoffs, recalls, transfers, shift changes, promotions, and job vacancies when qualifications are equal.

Improve job posting rights — Our Union proposed that regular job openings be posted internally before being posted externally, giving current workers the first opportunity to apply.

Address work rotation and variable shifts — Our Team proposed protections so workers are not scheduled to work day shift, evening shift, and night shift in the same workweek. The proposal also protects workers from being required to rotate between day shift one week and night shift the following week.

Strengthen benefits and leave language — Our Union also passed proposals around lead pay, vacation scheduling, paid sick leave carryover, bereavement leave, and expanding the definition of immediate family to include family members such as niece, nephew, aunt, uncle, and first cousin.

What We Are Still Fighting For

Our Bargaining Team is continuing to fight for language that respects Service workers' work, protects seniority, creates fair access to job opportunities, improves transparency, and gives workers more stability in their schedules.

Next Bargaining Session

July 14, 2026

Stay United and Stay Ready

The strength of this campaign comes from members standing together. Our Team will continue to bring member priorities to the table and fight for a contract that protects OMC Service workers.

Stay united, stay engaged, and stay ready.

Grays Harbor Hospital - Bargaining Update

We continue to make progress towards a new collective bargaining agreement. We have spent countless hours talking about what wages in other hospitals look like, and management has finally started coming into bargaining with some proposals worth thinking about. They have indicated that they have no interest in increasing PTO accruals or subsidizing the cost of health benefits more than they currently do, but instead want to invest in some significant wage increases for many jobs that have fallen below market. We disagree on their assessment of pay for some jobs and have shared a lot of data with them. We have also shared personal stories illustrating the ongoing challenges of working short.

Our next bargaining session is scheduled for August 27.

We are holding a Contract Action Meeting immediately following bargaining:

Contract Action Meeting

August 27
6:00 PM
Duffy's Meeting Room

• 1605 Simpson Avenue

• Aberdeen WA 98520

For additional information, contact a bargaining team member or Union Representative Kimberly Starkweather (206) 436-6515.

Bargaining Team: Dan James, Eric Timmons, Janet Byrd, Ana Garcia, Debi Sturm, Bambi Shope

Summit Pacific Medical Center Technical and Service - Tentative Agreement Reached! Contract Vote Scheduled

Our Bargaining Team is excited to announce that after several months of bargaining, we have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract for Technical and Service Workers!

The tentative agreement includes:

• Wage increases

• Ratification Bonus

• Increased Premiums

• Increased PTO Accrual

• Medical Assistant Training Pay

• Workforce Development Trainer Pay

• Education Leave

• New provision regarding Workplace Equity

Contract Vote Scheduled
Drop-in Tuesday, November 26

Summit Pacific Medical Center
11:00 AM-2:00 PM and 5:30 PM-7:30 PM
Rainier Conference Room
600 East Main Street
Elma, WA 98541

McCleary Healthcare Clinic
8:30 AM-9:30 AM
Conference Room
105 W Simpson Avenue
McCleary, WA 98557

The Bargaining Team recommends a “YES” vote!

UFCW 3000 members in good standing are encouraged to attend a meeting, ask questions, and vote on the contract. For additional information, contact Union Representative Kimberly Starkweather at (206) 436-6515 or talk to the Bargaining Team: Barb Ford, Judea Prouty, Kurt Phillips.

Summit Pacific Medical Center - Bargaining Update

Our Bargaining Team is working hard to make sure that everyone has competitive wages and a fair and equitable place to work!

We have provided Summit with wage charts from many other area hospitals and clinics. We have discussed the cost of living and how competitive pay is for jobs in the area. Management has said they are listening and understand how recruitment and retention works. Our last bargaining session, management came to bargaining and told us why competitive wages are important to Summit's success.

WE AGREE! It's what we have been saying all along.

We all need to make enough money to pay bills and support our families.

Summit will be expanding soon and we know this means better service to our community. Management needs to understand that we are part of this community and we need to be paid fair wages.

OK Summit Management, it's time to put money in people's pockets.

Our next bargaining session is Friday, November 8.We hope that management will be ready for us.

Bargaining Team:Kimberly Starkweather, Allison Felder, Monica Ortiz, Barb Ford, Judea Prouty, Kurt Phillips.

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Multicare Capital Medical Center Service/Office/Technical - Bargaining Update!

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Wednesday, October 2 marks our fourth bargaining date with MultiCare since we began negotiations for a 2024 contract for the Service, Office, & Technical union members at Capital Medical Center.

Transparently, our day began a bit slow in terms of meeting with management, with our Union team providing MultiCare with any remaining contract proposals we had in our court in the morning, and then waiting until just before the end of our scheduled time to receive proposals back from management.

Upon hearing back from management later that afternoon, we were presented with a number of responses on a few of the contract articles we’ve been exchanging back and forth with the employer; most importantly, wages.

Overall, it’s fair to say that we were shocked by MultiCare’s initial offer, not because it undercut our value and ignored regional competitors’ wage rates (as one can typically expect from an Employer’s first wage counter...), but instead, their proposal seemed to consider the rates of pay that competitors are paying in the greater South-Puget-Sound region, as well as the significant increases MultiCare workers in Pierce and King County won in union negotiations earlier this year.

There are varying increases throughout the numerous job classifications—mainly due to the varying market fluctuations for those classifications—but our bargaining team can say that while the wage proposal we received from Capital is not quite ready for us to agree to yet, it will serve to move market-based wage discussions much faster than we have seen at other bargaining tables!

We are looking forward to meeting with MultiCare for our next session on October 10 to continue working towards a strong contract for Capital Medical Center employees!

“We’re not all the way there yet, but we are cautiously optimistic!”
—Julie Hinchcliffe, HUC/Monitor Tech @ CapMC

Your Bargaining Team: Julie Hinchcliffe, HUC/Monitor Tech; Beatrix Sales, CS Tech; Lindsey Moorhead, Cath Lab Tech

Providence Centralia Service - WAGES Were The Topic! Bargaining Update

On September 30, 2024, we had our third bargaining session with Providence. We talked about wages and year-for-year experience that will help us to retain and recruit top talent. We continue to talk about other issues with an open dialogue. These bargaining sessions are moving quickly, and we are optimistic about the outcome.
 
“We are happy with the tone of our employer, who has shown us thoughtfulness with their proposal and seeing the needs of our bargaining unit. Join us in wearing your Union stickers and colors to show solidarity!”

— Your Bargaining Team: Dorys Sanders, Steven Tifft, Candice Hubbard, Brionna Stone, and Kim Jorgenson

One of the most powerful tools we have is to share our stories. If there is an issue you care deeply about or would like to have addressed at bargaining, please think about how you have been impacted and reach out to a member of the bargaining team or Union Representative Ryan DeGouveia at (360) 662-1982

Summit Pacific Medical Center - Bargaining Update

Our bargaining Team met with SPMC management Friday and received their initial economic proposal. The proposal included increases to wages, premiums and differentials.

Management provided lists of the wages paid at neighboring hospitals and clinics and made a proposal to try to bring us closer to those facilities. The data they provided did not include wages from contracts that have been recently ratified.

We are reviewing the accuracy and effective dates of the wage scales that SPMC used for their comparisons, to figure out how they determined the proposed increases. Our bargaining team questioned management about the accuracy of their information and management seemed interested in making sure the data they are using is up-to-date.

We are working on a counter proposal and will present our data on wages and other compensation.

It is important that SPMC fully understands our goals for this contract. We need to be competitive to retain current employees and recruit new ones.

Next bargaining dates: August 12 and 19.

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For more information contact a member of our Bargaining Team: Kim Starkweather Patient Coordinator, Allison Felder RN ED, Monica Ortiz RN ACU, Barb Ford ED Tech, Judea Prouty Medical Assistant, McCleary Clinic, Kurt E Phillips Lead Building Engineer.

Union Representatives:
Kiambo White (206) 436-6515
Madison Derksema (206) 436-6603

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"Management is being very receptive and open to feedback."

— Judea Prouty, MA, McCleary Clinic

"They're willing to meet us and are looking at data that shows them where we need to be."

— Monica Ortiz, RN

Forks Community Hospital Service & Technical - Tentative Agreement Reached! Contract Vote Scheduled

After four bargaining sessions your service and technical union contract negotiating team has reached a tentative agreement!

• Improvements to the collective bargaining agreement include:

• Across the board wage increases.

• Improvements to on-call, shift differentials, and weekend premiums phased in over the life of the contract!

• Multi-lingual pay for people certified by Washington state as fluent in a language other than English that is regularly spoken with patients.

• Certification pay for some job classifications wherein people receive certs that are not already requirements of the position (to be discussed in the Labor Management Committee prior to implementation in early 2024).

Please join us for a drop-In contract vote! This Tentative Agreement is recommended by your bargaining team!

Thursday, July 6

• 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

• 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Hospital Conference Room

UFCW 3000 members in good standing are encouraged to attend a meeting, ask questions, and vote on the contract. Contact a Bargaining Team member or your Union Representative for any questions!

Our Bargaining Team: Jen Smith, Aleda Adams, Micaiah Nelson, Cheryl Depew

Forks community hospital Technical & Service - Wage Increases Ratified

Forks Community Hospital Technical & Service

WAGE INCREASES RATIFIED

Thank you to all union members who came out on September 12 and voted to ratify wage increases! The vote overwhelmingly passed. You should see the increase on your paycheck this Friday, September 16.

If you did not this notice through email, please update your contact information at: ufcw21.org/update-your-information

For further information on your new wage increase or if you have any contract questions, contact Union Rep Brandan Zielinski at bzielinski@ufcw3000.org

Mason General Professional, Technical, Business Office, Service and LPN Unit - Wage Increase Vote

Management and the Union Bargaining Committee have met and discussed ongoing wage concerns and have reached a tentative agreement on a mid-cycle wage increase. For details of the wage offer drop into one of the vote meetings.

This is a FULLY RECOMMENDED TENTATIVE AGREEMENT!

For additional information reach out to a bargaining team member or your union representative Brandan Zielinski @206-436-6603 or bzielinski@ufcw3000.org

Upcoming Contract Vote Meetings

Friday, September 9, 2022

10:00AM - 1:00PM

3:00PM - 5:00PM

Mason General Hospital

901 Mountain View Drive

Shelton, WA, 98584

Pershing Room

To vote you must be a union member in good standing.

If you did not receive this notice by email, update your contact information here.

Capital Medical Center Technical Service - Bargaining Continues

“We’re disappointed that MultiCare has decided to focus on takeaways when we should be focusing on solutions to staff our hospital.”

Our Bargaining Team: Adam Swigart, Julie Hinchcliff, Maureen Ciglia 

Your bargaining team met with management again on October 20 and 25 as we continue to negotiate your successor contract.

After conducting a comprehensive market analysis on wages, we finally presented our initial economic proposal to management. Prior to presenting, we had to warn the employer that our proposal to increase wages may be shocking, but that is only because Capitol Medical Center’s wages are shockingly behind other hospitals in the region. 

This problem has dramatically worsened recently as neighboring hospitals have been forced to significantly increase wages to compete in a tight labor market and to keep up with the historic rate of inflation. We told management that we hope MultiCare will be willing to take the necessary actions to correct our low wages that our past employers have failed, or more accurately refused, to take. Your bargaining team is committed to fighting for wage increases that will help relieve our staffing issues and recognize the skyrocketing cost of living. 

Unfortunately, the employer then made a proposal to replace our Paid Time Off (PTO) program with the standard PTO program used throughout MultiCare, which would negatively impact many at Capitol Medical Center. We are not surprised by this proposal, in fact we expected it, but we are severely disappointed that MultiCare has elected to propose a takeaway when we should be focusing on more important issues such as staffing our hospital. We’re also frustrated that they made this proposal when they still haven’t resolved our outstanding issues with PTO after MultiCare took over the hospital. 

Your bargaining team will meet with management again on Monday November 1 and we hope management will have a response to our wage proposal.

Providence St. Joseph Tech and Service Contract Vote

Forks Community Hospital Tech / Service - Bargaining Continues

We received Management’s economic proposals Wednesday. While we appreciate the effort they’ve made towards making sure our wages are comparable to surrounding hospitals, there are still areas for improvement.

We have proposed improvements to our Rest Between Shift language. We’d like to see Management value the rest and safety of all employees equally

Management is also evaluating our proposal to fully acknowledge and value our employees that work non-traditional hours. We hope they agree that evening and night shift workers make significant adjustments to family life, sleep schedules, and more.

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Once we reach an agreement, we will be voting our contract by mail

Please update your information with us here.