Macy's Bargaining Update

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“Our picket rocked, but it was just a warmup. Now it’s time to amp up the volume as we gear up for a likely strike authorization vote on our path towards a fair contract!” -Liisa Luick

Our Union Bargaining Team: Azia Domingo, Curtisy Bryant, Emily Hunter, Liisa Luick, Nicole Hardin.

Our Union Bargaining Team met with management again virtually on August 14, which was our first mediation date since our informational pickets.

Turnout at the Informational Pickets was STRONG and Southcenter, Alderwood, and Bellingham.UFCW 3000 members, community leaders, and politicians came out in force to show Macy’s that we all stand in solidarity for a strong contract. Customers often came up to the pickets to learn more about the event, all of the shocked that our employer is offering less than fifty cents raise despite historic inflation.

This is what power looks like, and Macy’s should consider our pickets a warning about what our collective power can achieve when they push us into action. While we hope the mediator will help us reach an agreement, nothing but a fair contract will stop workers on our action plan to win a fair contact.

The unfortunate part about federal mediation is that our Bargaining Team is not permitted to share details about specific conversations or ideas explored during mediation. Only when an official proposal is passed is our team allowed to share the contents of the proposal. The intent of this rule is to allow both parties to talk more freely about each other’s thoughts without having to commit or risk having them shared with the general public.

That being said, no formal proposal was passed to our Bargaining Team during our August 14 meeting with the mediator. While details of conversation cannot be shared, the team can report that this latest bargaining session was a total waste of time. While the employer seemed visibly angry because of our successful pickets, it felt as if they wanted to frustrate bargaining as a form of retaliation.

But make no mistake, we clearly made an impression on the employer through our solidarity. We will only continue our field campaign until they give in to our simple demands for fair wages, a safe workplace, and respect.

We return to in-person negotiations this week on August 24 and 25, as the employer will be flying into Seattle from Macy’s New York City headquarters. Our in-person sessions have been far more productive, so let’s hope that progress is made this week.

Unless there's significant progress this week, we will likely move forward with a strike vote on September 7th. This won't result in an immediate strike, but it will enable our Bargaining Team to potentially call for one in the future.
Stay tuned for an update next week.

UFCW 3000 Member Story: Debby Gibby

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Debby Gibby

Debby Gibby is a senior Lab Assistant, steward, and bargaining team member at LabCorp. Debby knows union member voices are crucial to creating better workplaces and better lives and she isn't afraid to use hers to make it happen!  Debby has lots of creative ideas that she shares with her coworkers and her union representatives, and is using these ideas as a member of her bargaining team to win substantial wage increases to recruit and retain staff.  When she's not fighting to improve the lives of workers, she spends her time fighting for affordable housing.

Debby’s been a a strong advocate on affordable housing committees, especially in her First Hill neighborhood, as well as chairing a committee that stopped the removal of over 500 housing units from the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Seattle. Her archival research was rewarded with her work being on the cover of the First Hill's historical society's book.  Debby loves living in one of the oldest buildings on First Hill and works hard to keep her neighbors and her community safe and thriving.

Debby knows that the only solution to organized greed is organized people, on the job and off!

UFCW 3000 Episode 5: A Personal History of UFCW 3000 Organizing, Bargaining, and Community Activism with John Warring

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From organizing a union to bargaining a contract to enforcing it as a shop steward, John Warring has done it all. Michaela sits down with this retired member and activist in her community to hear about the history of the local hospital in Grays Harbor, WA. Michaela and John get real about the value of being a union worker and the many different ways to be involved in your union. For John it went far beyond ensuring fair wages and enforcing job security, and included things like protecting departments from outsourcing and advocating for workers alongside fellow unions in a labor council. He also shares his experience and perspective on 40 years of UFCW 3000 history!

UFCW 3000 union shop steward Michaela is always ready to answer fellow members’ questions about their union. She’s also a devoted murder podcast listener. Put those interests together, and she decided to start a union podcast to get all her coworkers’ questions and her own questions answered, and to meet as many people as possible who could share what it means to be a part of UFCW 3000. (No murder on this podcast, only solidarity!)

*The information shared on this podcast is offered by rank and file union member leaders of UFCW 3000. There may be inaccuracies or misstatements shared, as members will be speaking from the lenses of their perspectives and life experiences. While members are doing their best to share good information, we can make no claims to 100% accuracy and this podcast should not be construed as legal advice.

Isoray - Progress Made on Some Key Issues, Economic Proposals Pending

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Our Bargaining Team recently had our sixth bargaining session with the company, and we are making progress on several significant issues. However, we are still waiting for the company’s response to our economic proposals, such as wages and healthcare.

We understand that many of you have requested more detailed information about the proposals and their current status. Your voices matter, and we want to ensure that you have all the information you need. Here is a summary of some of the proposals we have made and their current status.

We encourage you to attend the next CAT Meeting where we will provide you with comprehensive information on each proposal made. This will also be a great opportunity for you to stay informed and actively participate in the process.

We have reached tentative agreements on the following proposals:

  • Union Representation

  • Employment Practices

  • Gender Neutrality

  • Severability & Savings Clause

We have made progress on the following proposals, although we haven’t yet reached a tentative agreement:

  • Holidays

  • Vacation

  • Discipline & Discharge

  • Grievance Procedure

  • Seniority

  • Leave of Absence

  • Sick & Safe Leave

We have not received a response from the company on the following proposals:

  • Wages

  • Healthcare

  • Bereavement Leave

  • Hours of Work & Overtime

  • Union Security

  • Retirement

JOIN US AT THE NEXT CAT MEETING!

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

  • 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Richland UFCW 3000 office

2505 Duportail St, Suite D, Richland, WA 99352

“We feel we’re making progress, and we know this is helping strengthen the work culture at Isoray.”

— Our Union Bargaining Team:

Cristal Bauer, Fernando Gonzalez-Perez, Ethan Black

If you have any questions, contact Juanita Quezada at (360) 409-0557 or Kristina Storm at (360) 630-0983.

PRMCE RN Weekly Update

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On August 16, we hosted a town hall and engaged with community members regarding the dire staffing crisis and the uncompromising stance of our employer in contract negotiations. We exposed the shocking reality of pervasive staff shortages at the Hospital. Providence's audacity knows no limits as they overtly refuse to surpass the benchmarks established by the recently enacted WA State safe staffing law, a crucial law that won’t achieve full effect until 2027.Those who attended from the community now comprehend the stark truth we confront - a formidable struggle to ensure patient safety.

August 17 saw us distributing leaflets to the community during the Aquasox game on Union Solidarity Night. We conversed with community members and fellow unions, experiencing an overwhelming surge of support. Many committed to contacting the Providence General Foundation to endorse our staffing demands.

Throughout the previous and ongoing week, PRMCE management has inundated us with a deluge of emails, videos, and even a flashy newspaper ad in the Everett Herald. Their propaganda machine works incessantly, disseminating falsehoods that we, the nurses and our union, are to blame for the stalled negotiations. This is a distortion of reality.

Let's be absolutely clear: an impasse is far from our situation.Despite our inability to reach an agreement through the prolonged expedited negotiation process, we believe both sides possess further proposals to present. At no point did our union or PRMCE assert that we were delivering a "last, best, and final offer." PRMCE manipulatively wields the term "impasse" as a tool of fear. According to the National Labor Relations Act, if a union and employer reach a valid "impasse" during contract negotiations, the employer can enforce their last proposal. This is PRMCE's cunning strategy to shirk bargaining and impose their terms.

Furthermore, Providence only seems fixated on one talking point: wages.Yet, what about the lives we safeguard daily? What about patient safety? Their callous calculations dismiss our primary objective - rectifying the staffing nightmare. Our contract's aim is to create a resolution for our staffing predicament. Wage increases alone are insufficient. Our proposals, rejected by PRMCE, empower nurses to collaboratively address enduring staffing challenges alongside PRMCE management. They involve binding third-party mediation to resolve long-standing staffing-related issues that management has failed to address, ensuring consistent consultations between the Chief Nursing Officer and nurses to efficiently allocate resources for staffing and patient safety initiatives, and establishing accountability mechanisms should PRMCE fail to adhere to the agreed-upon staffing plans.

Circle August 28 on your calendars as we head into another round of negotiations with PRMCE.However, don't for a moment think that we're commencing with a blank slate. We've already hammered out several tentative agreements. If Providence dares to reject this already agreed upon language, they knowingly prolong our struggle to tackle the staffing crisis.

Providence stands at a crossroads.Will they join forces with nurses to uplift patient safety? Or will they suppress our voices, perpetuating the staffing crisis and jeopardizing patients?

Our determination remains unwavering.We will persist in organizing actions and preparing for a strike - a demonstration of our commitment to realizing our proposals. On August 22 at 8 pm via Zoom, we will conduct strike captain training. Join us if you're willing to lead within your unit/department. Let's demonstrate to PRMCE the unyielding strength of our unity.

Please join us at one of the actions below:  

September 21: Community Townhall
@ Everett Labor Temple 2810 Lombard Ave Everett 5-6pm

September: Strike educational meetings for nurses at PRMCE and over Zoom  

August 28: Bargaining with PRMCE

August 27: Everett Farmers Market 10:30 to 12pm  (meet at the corner of Pacific and Wetmore) 

August 22, September 5, and September 19: Strike Captain Training 8pm-9pm CLICK HERE TO JOIN

 Show PRMCE that we are serious about our proposals and are willing to strike!If you have not already signed the strike pledge, please click on the link PRMCE RN - I Promise to Take Action! (jotform.com)

Also encourage your coworkers to update their information:https://ufcw3000.org/update-your-information

- Our PRMCE RN Bargaining Team: Trevor Gjendem, Juan Stout, Carrie Rimel, Kelli Johnson, Stephanie Sausman, Julie Byum, Kristen Crowder 

Labcorp - Ready & Left Waiting—Again

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Our Bargaining Team: Nancy Pyanowski, Kyle Chrisman, Sam McVay, Lisa Magee, Matt Noll, Shelby Tyner, Deborah Gibby

Once again, our LabCorp Bargaining Team came to the table prepared and ready to negotiate. Once again, Management let us down.

Despite receiving our economic proposals two sessions ago, LabCorp failed to live up to their promise of having counters for us. Instead, we traded non-economic proposals and counters, and continued our ongoing discussions of how to address understaffing and work shipping out, expanding training opportunities, and increasing recruitment and retention.

We urge Management to respond to our wage, benefits, and other economic proposals so that we can move forward and negotiate over all of our priorities at the next session on September 6.

SPEAK UP, STAND TOGETHER—WE NEED YOU TO SIGN OUR WAGE PETITION

The time is now! To win the wage increases and benefits we deserve, we must show Management that we are united and ready to fight together. This starts with each of us signing the wage petition and coming to the CAT meetings to strategize our plan to win. We will be planning upcoming actions and sharing our economic proposals at our CAT meetings. All Union members are welcome to attend!

Sign the Petition

Online Contract Action Team Meeting!

Sunday, August 20

  • 6:00 - 7:00 PM

Monday, August 21,

  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Sign up here get Zoom invitation details here, or find the link here!

Look for text message updates from our Bargaining Team to take action!

Not getting text messages from us? Update your information now!

Bartell Drugs - Bargaining Begins!

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Our Bargaining Team: Dani Fisher & Trevor Peterson

After months of delays, Management finally came to the table to begin contract negotiations with our Bartell Bargaining Team last week. We had deep discussions on:

  • Bartell/Rite Aid’s plans for addressing ongoing workplace security issues and proactively protecting member safety

  • How we can make healthcare and other benefits more affordable and accessible for all of us

  • Clarifying our PTO use and accrual policies, incident reporting procedures, how to access benefit info off the clock, and reaffirming that we have the right to wear Union buttons at work

Both sides came prepared and ready to make up for the time missed, and our team and Management passed language and benefit proposals. We are hopeful that negotiations continue to be productive as we prepare for our next session on September 1, 2023.

STAND TOGETHER—WEAR YOUR UNION BUTTONS EVERY DAY!

Bartell/Rite Aid’s national Director of Labor Relations confirmed during negotiations that we have the right to wear our UFCW 3000 buttons at work. So let’s do it! We’ll be wearing our Union buttons every day so we can show Management that we’re united and ready to fight for the higher wages, affordable benefits, and safer workplaces that we deserve!

Need more buttons? Let one of us or our Union Reps know ASAP so we can get them to you and your coworkers.

If you haven’t already, help us build our strength so we can win a strong contract by signing our Safety Petition!

SPEAK UP—SHARE YOUR PICTURE AND YOUR STORY!

We need you, your voice, and your experiences—send pictures of you and your coworkers wearing your Union buttons to our team or our Reps!

Share your story about why you’re fighting for better pay, affordable benefits, or safer workplaces—or all three! Write it down or film a short video and share with our team or our Reps, so our coworkers can get fired up and find their own voice

STAY INFORMED—UPDATE YOUR CONTACT INFO

Make sure your contact information is up to date so you don’t miss out on bargaining updates or upcoming Contract Action Team meetings!

If you have any questions, contact your Union Representatives Dominick Ojeda @ (206) 436-6586 and Mohamed Bonah @ (206) 436-6514

Ferry County Public Hospital Service and Maintenance LPN Vote Scheduled

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Ferry County Public Hospital Service & Maintenance / LPN

Tentative Agreement reached! Contract Vote Scheduled!

Our Union Bargaining Team members met with Management on August 10, 2023 and were prepared to meet again the next day but were able to reach a tentative agreement late into the day.

“Today was a great day for all of the hardworking employees of Ferry County Health. We established our foundation with a new contract that will give us a voice and return power to those of us that work tirelessly to keep this hospital district running. We will continue to improve our position and strengthen our resolve through sticking with one another and growing our membership. We all deserve this and more.” —Chris Torres, Lab.

“I am so proud for all the results of our hard work and commitment to each other for the benefit of our co-workers. We look forward to working and talking with each of you.” —Nykole Silrus, LPN.

“It was a privilege to work on a contract that benefits all Service & Maintenance and LPN employees. We now know where we stand for the next Three Years.” —Rebecca Thompson, Unit Coordinator.

Contract Vote: August 30, 2023 Please join our Bargaining Team in voting YES on August 30, 2023 at any of the scheduled times in the HUB. 6:30am—8:30am, 11:00am—1:00pm or 4:00pm—7:00pm.

Please reach out to our Bargaining Team or Union Representative Amy Radcliff at 509-340-7370 with any questions or concerns.

UFCW 3000 Member Story: Phil Gillette & Elizabeth Olson

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Phil Gillette and Elizabeth Olson

Phil Gillette and Elizabeth Olson both work at the Bellingham Fred Meyer. But their true passion lies in the rabbit rescue that they started.

Bunanza Rabbit Rescue Ranch and Adoption Center got its start in 2015 when someone dumped a post-Easter bunny on Phil and Elizabeth's property in Lynden WA. Soon after they rescued another bunny running down the middle of a highway. Out of love for those first two rabbits in need, Bunanza has grown to include dozens of volunteers and has helped over 750 bunnies find permanent homes – all of them spayed or neutered, socialized, litter trained and vet verified to be healthy.

Phil and Elizabeth are vital members of their community, both at the grocery store and on the expanse of Bunanza Rabbit Resue Ranch!

PCC Bargaining Update

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KEY PROPOSALS NOW ON THE TABLE —KEEP UP THE PRESSURE!

Our Union Bargaining Committee met with PCC representatives on August 10. We put quite a few important proposals across the table, and expect serious responses from management at our next bargaining session. The proposals we made include:

  • One wage scale for all, whether you’re in Seattle or Issaquah

  • Wage proposals for Clerks, Meat Wrappers, and Meat Cutters that establish a starting wage of $25 per hour and achieve $35 per hour for journeypersons by the end of the contract!

  • Moving all Helper Clerks to the Clerk wage scale

  • Increasing the pay for group A and B by $1.00

  • Increases to our Courtesy and Service Counter wage scales

  • Increasing night pay differentials

  • Wage escalators to guarantee our wages stay above the minimum wage

  • Improved holiday language

  • Seats for cashiers as well as others

  • Strengthening the four 10-hour workdays for grocery

  • An ability to pick up open shifts through new DayForce roster

  • Increasing the rest between shifts from 10 hours to 12 hours

Take action every day to build power in the workplace! You can help further the fight for a fair contract by:

Updating your information to ensure you receive all updates during the bargain

Wearing your union button every shift

Discussing the bargain with your coworkers—it’s your right!

Attending a Contract Action Team meeting during the week of August 21 – 24 to get the latest information

Sharing your feedback: The Bargaining Committee wants to hear from you! Look for us in the store and let’s talk.

RSVP for our next bargaining dates: August 22 & 23. We hope to see you there! Bargaining will be held at the Sea-Tac Hilton right off the airport light rail station. (Sea-Tac Hilton, 17620 International Blvd, Seattle, WA 98188)

PRMCE RN Weekly Bargaining Update

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On August 6 we handed out over 200 leaflets to the community at the Everett Farmers' Market! Community members we spoke to at the Farmers' Market were extremely supportive of our fight for better staffing at Providence Everett. Many people shared stories with us about long waits in the emergency room and Providence’s predatory medical billing practices. From our conversations, the community wants PRMCE to increase nurse staffing and to decrease medical costs.

When we first began bargaining, we proposed that PRMCE make charity care more accessible for our patients and PRMCE rejected our proposal. Although in expedited negotiations we cannot revisit this topic since it is off the table, we can propose this concept if we move to “incremental” negotiations.

Incremental bargaining means that we would reset negotiations and would be able to make new proposals or repropose language from our expedited negotiations. While this may delay reaching a tentative agreement by October 2023, this might be our only option going forward given PRMCE’s unwillingness to agree to our economic and staffing proposals.

We have a tentative negotiation date of August 28. We are currently waiting for the PRMCE management to confirm the date.
Regardless of expedited or incremental negotiations we will continue holding actions and preparing to strike to show PRMCE we are serious about our proposals. On August 22 at 8pm via Zoom we will be holding a strike captain training, please join us if you are willing to be a leader in your unit/department.

Please join us at one of the actions below:  

  • September 21 Community Townhall @ Everett Labor Temple 2810 Lombard Ave Everett 5-6pm

  • Late August to September- Strike educational meetings for nurses

  • August 27 Everett Farmers Market 10:30 to 12pm (meet at the corner of Pacific and Wetmore) 

  • August 22 Strike Captain Training 8pm-9pm Zoom Meeting 

  • August 17 AquaSox Union Solidarity Night 6pm to 7pm (free tickets will be available to the game after the action, please RSVP with Anthony Cantu 206-436-6566)

  • August 16 Community Townhall @ Everett Labor Temple 2810 Lombard Ave Everett 5-6pm

Show PRMCE that we are serious about our proposals and are willing to strike!If you have not already signed the strike pledge, please click on the link PRMCE RN - I Promise to Take Action! (jotform.com)
Also encourage your coworkers to update their information: https://ufcw3000.org/update-your-information

Our Union PRMCE RN Bargaining Team: Trevor Gjendem, Juan Stout, Carrie Rimel, Kelli Johnson, Stephanie Sausman, Julie Byum, Kristen Crowder 

Wage Comparison between PRMCE Management’s proposal vs. Overlake and Swedish Edmonds

As you can see below PRMCE’s proposal keeps RNs wage rates behind Overlake through August 2024 and Swedish Edmonds through February 2025. Overlake and Swedish Edmonds will renegotiate their wages in 2024 and 2025 meaning the PRMCE RNs will be even more behind these two hospitals in 2024, 2025, and 2026

EvergreenHealth Kirkland - Bargaining Continues

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We continued to bargain on Monday, August 7, and Management is clear that they do not want to increase wages in 2023. They say Evergreen already pays competitive wages and they don’t want to have the highest wages in the area, but would rather be “in the middle”. They don’t seem to understand this competitive job market and how it impacts our staffing when they refuse to pay competitive wages.

We have reached tentative agreements in many other areas including: overtime language for 7/70 shifts, rollover of Continuing Education Funds, travel time when floating to a different work location, and reinforcing the Labor Management Committee language.

There is still much work to do. We need to stand together to fight for a fair contract!

Please join us at the Board of Commissioners Meeting!

Tuesday, August 15 @

EvergreenHealth

12040 NE 128th

Kirkland WA 98034

Meet at 6:15 PM by the Café on the second floor of TAN

Bring friends and family! We will have an opportunity to speak directly to Hospital Commissioners during the public comment period and share why we need a fair contract and fair wages.

For additional information about this meeting or how you can get more involved, contact Union Representative Jack Crow @ (206) 436-6614.

Kaiser Labor Job Positions are open - Apply now!

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KAISER WORKERS, Come work with your Union: Kaiser Permanente Labor Positions NOW OPEN for January 2024!

UFCW3000 and the Alliance of Healthcare Unions, in partnership with Kaiser Permanente, invite you to apply to one of two open positions:

  • Contract Specialist – one year term

  • Alliance Partnership Representative (APR) – three year term

Both positions offer great opportunity to learn new skills and spend time doing meaningful work that has a direct impact on Kaiser workplaces.

If selected, you will be released from your current role. In your new role, you will continue to receive the same pay, benefits and seniority accrual, returning to your position after your contractual term.

Applications due by September 15. Both positions start January 2024.

APR JOB DESCRIPTION: Download job description here.
To Apply: please email resume with KPWA APR Position in the subject line to: cmacphail@ufcw3000.org, lvanwormer@ufcw3000.org, betelhem.michael@ahcunions.org, becky.t.peterson@kp.org 

CONTRACT SPECIALIST JOB DESCIPTION: Download job description here.
To apply: Please fill out CONTRACT SPECIALIST Application here

MFused - Management Low Balled us on Wages

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MFused
Management Low Balled us on Wages

Our Union Bargaining Team met with Management on Tuesday, August 8 to continue negotiations. After over 3 months of meetings, Management finally gave us their economic proposals. They did nothing in their proposals to address equity pay, cost of living, and inflation in the city. In Seattle, while inflation is at 5.0%, they are only offering 3.0% wage increases. We know that pay rates are unequal and are currently all over the place for any given position and that needs to be fixed.

Lastly, Management outright rejected our proposal to separate vacation and sick time and countered with only 2-3 additional PTO days. They are proposing that 2 weeks total for sick and vacation time is more than enough for us all.

In the next few sessions, our Team will have to start making difficult decisions about our wages, benefits and working conditions that will last for years. We need your input before our next session on Tuesday, August 29!

Our bargaining team will be sending out a poll for the best time to discuss priorities and how we can win together!

WhidbeyHealth - Professional & Technical Unit Bargaining Update

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On Tuesday, August 8, our union Bargaining Team met with Management hoping to see their response to our comprehensive economic proposal we presented to them on July 26. Management was not prepared with a response on wages and showed an overall lack of willingness to move on other economic issues. When they informed us they would not have a counter proposal on wages that day, we asked for more bargaining dates. Unfortunately, their availability was limited to the end of August or beginning of September, so we will not return to the table until September 8, with a second session scheduled for September 13. 

“We are disappointed that Management came to bargaining unprepared after having nearly two weeks since our last bargaining session to craft a response.” 

— Jennifer MacNeill, Medical Technical Lead, Whidbey Health 

On Tuesday, August 15, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, our Bargaining Team will be holding a small event at City Beach in Oak Harbor (on the Starbucks side) to update interested members in-person on the bargaining process and ways to get involved and take action! We will have snacks and light refreshments and a drawing for surprise door prizes. Please RSVP with Union Representative Celia Ponce-Sanchez if possible by phone at (360) 409-0574 (but all are welcome!)

Join us on Tuesday, August 15!

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

City Beach in Oak Harbor (Starbucks side)

1600 S. Beeksma Drive

Oak Harbor, WA 98277

Bargaining Team: Jennifer MacNeill, Medical Technical Lead; Rosalie Nguyen, Pharmacy

UFCW 3000 Member Story: Allison Hanely

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Allison Hanley and a canine Friend

It pays to know your rights! Your employer must follow the discipline and termination language in your union contract, and if you’re organizing your union or bargaining your first union contract, you still have federal labor rights to protect yourself from retaliation. When UFCW 3000 member Allison Hanley was terminated from the newly organized Downtown Dog Lounge, she felt sure it wasn’t fair and immediately called her union rep for support. After working together and looking at the facts, Allison ended up winning an $8,000 settlement in compensation from her employer! Congrats, Allison.

“The UFCW 3000 staff showed amazingly strong support for me in helping me fight for my rights, educating me about the settlement, and providing me the resources to get a new job at a unionized workplace!”—Allison Hanley

If you’re not sure what’s happening to you at work is fair, call us and ask to talk to your union rep, or to a union organizer if you’re not yet a member! UFCW 3000: 1-800-732-1188

Labcorp - Economics are on the table!

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Our Bargaining Team: Nancy Pyanowski, Kyle Chrisman, Sam McVay, Lisa Magee, Matt Noll, Shelby Tyner, Deborah Gibby

Last week, our LabCorp Union Bargaining Team gave wages, healthcare, and benefits proposals to management. We continued our deep discussion on staffing levels, recruitment and retention, and work volume, and pushed for collaborative strategies and solutions to these issues.  

The ball is in their court! We look forward to management’s comprehensive response and counterproposals at our next negotiation sessions on August 14.

Our fight isn’t just at the table. We know inflation and rising living costs are leaving LabCorp wages behind. To hire skilled and committed staff, and to retain our invaluable coworkers, LabCorp must invest in its workforce.

We’re standing together to say—the time for fair and competitive wages is NOW!

Sign the Petition

Join us for our upcoming virtual Contract Action Team meetings to discuss what’s going on at the table and what we can do to support our Bargaining Team in winning a strong contract!

Sunday, August 20 • 6:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, August 21 • 11:30AM - 12:30PM

Find the Zoom meeting link to upcoming CAT meetings here! Also join us on Slack and Facebook!

Not getting updates? Update your contact info!

New member? Fill out your membership application!

If you have any questions, contact your Union Representative Christie Harris at (206) 436-6606.

PRMCE RN Bargaining Update

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On August 1, we had our ninth bargaining session since April 2023. Our Union Bargaining Team made a proposal which would ensure that PRMCE no longer lags behind other hospitals, like Swedish-Edmonds, and Overlake. The proposal also establishes a way to contractually enforce the new hospital Safe Staffing law that protects our patients and community.  

We are disappointed that Providence does not see the value in our proposals and continues to reject our staffing language and wage proposals.  

We are working with a federal mediator to secure more bargaining dates. We are still interested in bargaining in good faith, whether that is continuing with expedited bargaining or commencing incremental bargaining.  

The most important thing we can do now is stand united and spread the word to the community and patients. Please join us at one of the actions below:

September 21 Community Townhall
@ Everett Labor Temple 5pm-6pm - 2810 Lombard Ave. Everett 

Late August to September: Strike educational meetings for nurses 
August 27 Community Outreach @ Everett Farmers Market: 10:30am-12pm (meet at the corner of Pacific and Wetmore)   

August 17 AquaSox Union Solidarity Night Leaflet:
6pm-7pm (free tickets will be available to the game after the action, please RSVP with Anthony Cantu 206-436-6566) 

August 16 Community Townhall @ Everett Labor Temple:
5-6pm - 2810 Lombard Ave Everett 

August 6 Community Outreach @ Everett Farmers Market:
10:30am to 12pm (meet at the corner of Pacific and Wetmore)   

Show PRMCE that we are serious about our proposals and are willing to strike!

If you have not already signed the strike pledge, please click on the link PRMCE RN - I Promise to Take Action! >>

Also encourage your coworkers to update their information:
https://ufcw3000.org/update-your-information

Wage Comparison between PRMCE Management’s proposal vs. Overlake and Swedish Edmonds 

As you can see below PRMCE’s proposal keeps RNs wage rates behind Overlake through August 2024 and Swedish Edmonds through February 2025. Overlake and Swedish Edmonds will renegotiate their wages in 2024 and 2025 meaning the PRMCE RNs will be even more behind these two hospitals in 2024, 2025, and 2026 

UFCW 3000 Podcast Episode 4: Apprenticeships—or, WeTrain You on How to Pick Your Steak and Advance Your Career

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How can your union further your career? What is a union apprenticeship? What's our union doing to create more high-paying and safer jobs in our industries? Michaela talks to fellow UFCW 3000 member Indy about his experience with the union meat cutting apprenticeship program, and then talks to Evan and Andy about the apprenticeship and the new WeTrain workforce development organization.

UFCW 3000 union shop steward Michaela is always ready to answer fellow members’ questions about their union. She’s also a devoted murder podcast listener. Put those interests together, and she decided to start a union podcast to get all her coworkers’ questions and her own questions answered, and to meet as many people as possible who could share what it means to be a part of UFCW 3000. (No murder on this podcast, only solidarity!)

*The information shared on this podcast is offered by rank and file union member leaders of UFCW 3000. There may be inaccuracies or misstatements shared, as members will be speaking from the lenses of their perspectives and life experiences. While members are doing their best to share good information, we can make no claims to 100% accuracy and this podcast should not be construed as legal advice.