Providence Sacred Heart Service & Maintenance Tentative Agreement Reached!
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Our Bargaining Team has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract and recommends a yes vote!
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PCC Our Proposals Are on the Table, Now We Must Build Power!
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On Friday, November 21, our member-led Bargaining Team sat across the table from PCC for the second time in this contract cycle. We delivered our first round of proposals, which included weekly guaranteed hours, the creation of a centralized scheduler position to improve our shift-bidding system, additional discounts for staff, a limitation on sub-contracting deli, cut fruit, and meat products, plus language on racial justice trainings and immigration protections.
Read MoreHarbor Regional Health Tentative Agreement Reached!
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Our Bargaining Team has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract and recommends a yes vote!
Read MoreMultiCare Capital Medical Center Professionals Bargaining Update
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On Wednesday, November 19, our Bargaining Team met with Management for our third formal session with MultiCare! We have primarily been exchanging non-economic articles back and forth while we await the Employer’s first economic proposal.
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Washington Beef Bargaining update Actualización de Negociación de Efectos
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On Wednesday, November 19, we met with the company as part of effects bargaining over the significant increase to the health insurance plan.
El miércoles 19 de noviembre, nos reunimos con la compañía como parte de la negociación de efectos por el aumento significativo del seguro médico.
Read MoreSunrise Dental - Unity Is Strength
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The Employer has tentatively agreed on several great items; however, they are not hearing us on wages. Our team is still going strong and actively countering to work towards a fair agreement that includes a wage scale that will recruit and retain our skilled labor.
What's Next
Contract Action Team Meeting
Thursday, November 20
6pm - 7pm
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Please join our Bargaining Team for a virtual check-in. Let's talk about the bargaining process and find out how it is going.
Sticker Day
Wednesday, November 26
Please support our Bargaining Team by wearing your sticker on Wednesday, November 26! Please reach out to a Bargaining Team member or your Union Rep for your sticker and to share your solidarity photos.
Trainings
Steward Training: How to Represent Co-Workers in Investigatory Meetings (Online) · UFCW 3000 >>
Bargaining Team: Jacqueline "Jaqi" Tang, Bellevue Office; Linda Thomas, Olympia Office
Kaiser - Contract Action Team Meeting
/Meeting ID: 8389762 9915
Passcode: 110190
Contract Action Team Meeting
Wednesday, November 19
6pm
PCC December Contract Action Team Meetings
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Join your coworkers to prepare for upcoming negotiations and how to win a fair contract! If you have any questions, please call your Union Representative.
Read MoreSkagit Regional Health Bargaining Update
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On the 6, we presented our full economic proposal, which includes fair wage increases and market wage adjustments, a stronger step progression, improvements to premium pay, and updates to PTO.
Read MoreWray’s Grocery & Meat and Wray’s Selah Market Meat Contracts Ratified!
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Wray’s Grocery & Meat
Wray’s Selah Market Meat
Contracts Ratified!
Providence Sacred Heart Service and Maintenance Bargaining Update
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On November 12, our Bargaining Team had a fourth bargaining session with Management. We have made improvements on differentials and premiums, tuition reimbursement, required call out times, diversity and inclusion, workplace violence, and language addressing AI.
Read MoreRecovery Cafe - Worksite Closure Update
/On Monday, Recovery Cafe announced it was considering the future of its SODO location. This comes after reassurances from the Employer that they had no plans on closing one of their worksites when we brought it up earlier in the bargaining process. The pace of negotiations alongside this new announcement shows why it is vital that we come together and organize—organize to win the contract we deserve, preserve our jobs, and fight for what's best for Recovery Cafe members.
Thursday, November 13 at 7pm our Union is holding an online meeting to discuss how we're feeling, what we know, and how we plan to organize and win what we want.
Recovery Cafe Union Membership Meeting
Thursday, November 13
7pm
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Meeting ID: 856 6584 3592
Passcode: 102822
If you have any questions before our meeting, you can call your Union Rep Allison Hanley: (206) 436-6586.
MultiCare Capital Medical Center Professionals Bargaining Update
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On Thursday, November 7, our Bargaining Team met with Management for our second formal session with MultiCare! With the end of our second bargaining day behind us, we have now presented the Employer with the entirety of our proposals and have now started to receive responses from management on a number of the non-economic articles.
Read MoreDreamclinic Meet Our Union Bargaining Team
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Our Bargaining Team has been meeting to prepare our proposals. We meet with the Employer on November 13 and 25 to start the process of passing proposals.
Read MorePuget Sound Allied Grocery Stores Peninsula Contract Votes Scheduled!
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After months of negotiations, leafleting, info-picketing, a 97% strike authorization vote in June, and ratification votes from grocery store workers in many Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores, our Union Bargaining Team harnessed all that power from thousands of grocery workers to fight and win a fair contract.
Read MoreKennewick Winco Meat Contract Vote!
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Thursday, November 20 from 3pm to 6pm at the UFCW 3000 Richland Office 2505 Duportail St. Kennewick WA 99352
Gains include:
Significant pay increases
Affordable health care
Improved vacation language
Providence St. Peter Professionals Tentative Agreement Reached!
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Following a nearly seventeen hour bargaining session with Management- beginning Monday, November 10 and concluding after midnight on Tuesday the 11- our union Bargaining Team representing the Professionals at Providence St. Peter Hospital are proud to announce that we have reached a fully recommended tentative agreement on our first union contract!
Read MoreMember Story: Mary Bridge Nurses Get Paid after Contract Violations
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When paychecks arrived in early September at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, Medical-Surgical Nurse Nicole Geffrey noticed something wasn’t right.
Read MoreProvidence St. Peter Hospital Professionals - Bargaining Update
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On Tuesday, November 4, our Professionals Bargaining Team met with management for the seventh session of union contract negotiations.
At Wednesday's session, we continued the productive exchange of the remaining sections of our contract, reaching a handful of new agreements including language around Per Diem workers (more specifically regarding the wage differential in lieu of retirement and health care benefits), increased job protections for workers facing layoffs or workforce reductions, outlining the order in which workers will be placed on low census, and we even reached agreement on a handful of position's wages!
While progress was significant for a number of newly represented positions at PSPH, there were also a couple of positions whose Employer-proposed rates we strongly felt did not meet the wages that nearby Union professionals are earning. As such, our team continued to hold firm that Providence increase these scales to reduce staffing shortages and to meet the demand of the highly competitive market. As such, our team felt that it was beneficial to provide management with the wage scales we're referencing to inform our position. While we did not receive management's response to our proposal before negotiations concluded for the day, we are dedicated to making sure all Professionals at Providence St. Peter Hospital are paid fairly for the lifesaving work we perform every day.
We're looking forward to hearing back from Providence on Monday, November 10—when we are scheduled to be back at the table!
If you have questions about ongoing first contract negotiations, please reach out to a member of our Union Bargaining Team or call our Union Rep Madison Derksema at (206) 436-6603.
Bargaining Team: Rita Palmquist, Case Manager MSW; Elise Steinmetz, Physical Therapist; Sydney Lobdell, Dietitian; Kristine Pepper, Clinical Pharmacist; Brenda Arend, Speech Language Pathologist; Diana Herr, Senior Medical Laboratory Scientist
