A tentative agreement with Providence Saint Joseph’s is in place. Your bargaining committee members, Maegan George and Michelle Fisher, endorse the proposal and recommend a Yes vote. On July 17, we will have a ratification vote.
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After two full months of bargaining, despite challenges and difficult conversations with management, our bargaining team persevered and has reached a tentative agreement with Providence Mt. Carmel. On July 16, we will have a contract ratification vote. Please join the bargaining team at the vote and have any questions you may have answered. All documents will be provided at the time of the vote.
July 16, 2025
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
HEC
UFCW 3000 members in good standing are encouraged to attend the vote meeting, read the documents, ask questions, and vote on the contract. Reach out to your Union Representative, Lenaya Wilhelm, at 866-210-3000, Ext. 7369, with any questions or concerns.
On Wednesday, July 2, our Bargaining Team met with Saint Michael Medical Center Management for another joint bargaining session. In the morning we worked on responses to nearly all of the economic items on the table.
Read MoreOn July 1, 2025, after a nearly 24-hour bargaining session, your union bargaining committee representing the Professionals at Providence Everett is proud to announce that we have reached a tentative agreement on our new contract!
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We have been bargaining over wages and premiums. Management has proposed a different wage increase percentage for every job, and some jobs have various percentages depending on the step. For some steps and jobs, the increases are significant, and for other steps and jobs the proposed increases are low. We are continuing to propose competitive wages that can retain and recruit, keeping the hospital fully staffed.
Management is claiming (again) that they are interested in being average or "in the middle" for pay as compared to other local hospitals. This has been their stated goal for several contract cycles, but we know how challenging it is to constantly be understaffed. We carry the load as the hospital continues to undercut employees.
Monday, July 7
6:00 PM
Duffys
1605 Simpson Avenue
Aberdeen 98520
For additional information, contact a bargaining team member or Union Representative Kimberly Starkweather at (206) 436-6515.
Bargaining Team: Dan James, Eric Timmons, Janet Byrd, Ana Garcia, Debi Sturm, Bambi Shope.
Bargaining has begun! Fighting for fair wages, premiums, and much more! If we want a strong contract, we must show the employer that we stand together! Now's the time to be unified!
Bargaining Team: Nicole Arnzen, Shanelle Cox, & Joseph Goodman
On Thursday, June 26 and Friday, June 27, we met with the Lourdes management team and made our proposals. The team was receptive and provided us with proposals, counter proposals, and tentative agreements. Our next bargaining session is July 16 & 17.
If you have any questions, concerns, or would like to join your Union, please contact a bargaining team member or your Union Representative, Juanita Quezada at (509) 340-7407.
Our Planned Parenthood Bargaining Team is excited to share that last week, we had our first negotiations session for a successor collective bargaining agreement. After initially proposing dates in April, we were finally able to meet with Planned Parenthood’s management team
Read MoreWe’ve been steadily working through non-economic proposals, going back and forth on contract language that needed cleaning up or clarification. We’ve reached a few Tentative Agreements (TAs) so far.
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On June 26, we met with SMMC management for our eleventh bargaining session, where the hospital presented what they called a "comprehensive counterproposal." While there was some movement on break relief RNs, bereavement leave, preceptor pay, and float pay, management's wage proposal and response to staffing remain deeply disappointing.
The hospital proposed a wage increase of 5.25% upon ratification—a number that still leaves SMMC RNs behind St. Joseph's pay rates. Despite repeatedly hearing from RNs that unsafe staffing is driving burnout and turnover, the hospital offered no real solution on staffing. In fact, when we presented our staffing proposal again, management responded with deafening silence.
They continue to insist that they're "staffing above the matrix" and claim that contractual guardrails are unnecessary. We strongly disagree. Every day, RNs are working below matrix staffing levels due to chronic short staffing, floating to other units to fill gaps, or taking full assignments as charge nurses—sometimes doing both at once. This is not safe. This is not sustainable.
The hospital's message is clear: They're not listening.
Instead of offering meaningful fixes, they've doubled down on targeting specific departments. For instance, their latest proposal would restrict scrub privileges to only Emergency Department RNs—and they've rejected any kind of ED premium despite the high-intensity work and constant short staffing in the ED.
We are at a critical moment in negotiations. While there's been some progress, we are still far from winning what RNs need most: fair wages and enforceable staffing protections. Competitive contracts at Multicare and Providence include understaffing premiums and stronger staffing language—and SMMC RNs deserve no less.
If we want to win the contract we need, we need to show we're ready to fight for it. One way to take action right now:
Sign the strike pledge card >>
Let management know we're united and serious about what's at stake—our safety, our patients, and our profession.
The strike pledge card is to show our commitment to winning the best contract possible—your signature indicates that if we have to reject an offer on the table in the future by a vote, you will also vote to authorize a strike.
Together, we can win the contract we deserve.
Bargaining Team: Kim Fraser, Pre-Op; Janice Brown, FBC; Meredith Francisco, Med Surg; Lindsey Gearllach, Obs; Tammy Olson, ICU
During recent contract negotiations for the Professional Technical, Business Office, Service & LPNs Unit, Mason Health agreed to bargain the inclusion of Surgery Techs into the existing contract.
Read MoreOur union bargaining team met again with Fresenius management on Friday to continue contract negotiations. Fresenius did not make any counter proposals to what we proposed last session, but we pushed forward and made proposals on:
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