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CONTRACT ACTION TEAM MEETING
In anticipation of upcoming contract negotiations, join us at our next Contract Action Team meeting to discuss strategies to build collective power, get updates from the PRMCE Professionals Bargaining Team, and stand together in pursuit of increasing recruitment and retention, better working conditions, and improved benefits for Providence healthcare workers across Washington State!
CONTRACT ACTION TEAM MEETING
Wednesday, April 16
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
In-Person:
Teamsters 38 Union Hall
2601 Everett Ave, Everett, WA 98201
Virtual (ZOOM):
Check email for link
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The Joint Bargaining Begins Soon
/We’re excited to announce that negotiations for our first contract will begin soon—we’ll finally be getting The Joint to meet us at the table in April. We’ve been preparing as a unit for months, identifying our shared goals and concerns and organizing around pay & raises, security, and health & safety issues. Now is the time to get involved!
Read MoreProvidence St. Peter Hospital RN Contract Action Team Meeting
/Following our next-scheduled bargaining date on April 16 with Providence, join us at our next in-person Contract Action Team meeting to discuss strategies to build collective power and solidarity in pursuit of improving recruitment and retention, winning better working conditions, and strengthening benefits for Providence healthcare workers across Washington State.
Read MoreThis May Day, We March for the Power to Live, to Engage, and to Prosper
/This year, we’re showing up in force to May Day marches all around Washington state. Sign up to stand together in Spokane, Seattle, Yakima, and Mt. Vernon. RSVP and join us!
Read MoreAshley House - Contract Ratified!
/On April 2 and 3 the contract was overwhelmingly ratified by Union Members at all of the houses. We had great conversations with so many people who have a common interest in ensuring that Ashley House continues to be sustainable and that all employees are valued.
Highlights of the agreement include:
Sustainable Wage Increases
Premium and Differential Increases
Higher PTO Accrual Rate
Enhanced Pull Bonus
Better Training Bonus
Job and Bid Posting and Awarding Clarifications
For additional information contact a Bargaining Team member or Union Representative Charlie King (206) 436-6518.
Bargaining Team: Cyndi Jones, Donna Iverson, and Janet Neice
Recovery Cafe Bargaining Update
/We 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 MorePRMCE Important Updates and Meetings
/This year, over 10,000 workers at Providence hospitals across Western Washington—including PRMCE, Providence St. Peter, Providence Centralia, and Swedish—will be negotiating their union contracts. Here at PRMCE, the Professional and Technical units are currently bargaining.
Read MoreSaint Michael Medical Center RNs - Bargaining Update
/On Thursday, April 3, our Bargaining Team met with Management to resume negotiations. In the morning we presented all our economic proposals except for retirement, which we want to discuss with our co-workers in an upcoming meeting (to be announced). We addressed staffing ratios, incentive shift language, break relief nurses, various new proposed premiums to recognize specialized skills of certain RNs, wages, increased PTO, and retention bonuses (among other things).
We were aghast at Management's attitude when we presented our economic package proposals, with members of their team making snide comments while our negotiator presented the information, and in some cases even laughing at proposals around staffing and break nurses.
After our presentation, Management took our proposals and went to caucus for an extended period. We then waited for responses on these economic items, as well as their next set of counterproposals on non-economics, which we last had passed to them on March 27. Upon returning some counterproposals towards the end of the day, we saw little substance in their responses but put together another pass of our own on non-economics to present first thing next week.
Our next bargaining date is April 10, with more sessions confirmed for April 16, May 8, and May 15. Stay tuned for all-member Contract Action Team meetings.
"We were excited to pass our initial economic and staffing proposals to management, including safe staffing ratios and market-competitive wages. But instead of taking them seriously, management literally laughed in our faces. It was beyond disrespectful and shows that we need to be ready to take action for a fair contract."
— Meredith Francisco, RN (Med Surg)
Our Union Bargaining Team: Kim Fraser (Pre-Op); Janice Brown (FBC); Tammy Olson (ICU); Amanda Lancheros (ER); Lindsey Gearllach (Obs); Meredith Francisco (Med Surg)
Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores Taking It To The Streets!
/On Thursday April 3, our union members grabbed bullhorns, hoisted up informational picket signs, and marched outside of Fred Meyers and QFCs across Puget Sound to fight for better wages, better staffing, and better stores.
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