Metropolitan Market Contract Votes Scheduled!
/Our union member Bargaining Team reached a Tentative Agreement and recommends a YES vote to accept the proposal from the employers.
Read MoreAfter months of difficult negotiations and a powerful show of solidarity, we have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract! Thanks to our collective strength, we secured significant improvements, including:
Please join us in person at the UFCW 3000 Des Moines office for Contract Action Team meetings on the following dates. We will be meeting in person at the union office, but for those who cannot join in person there will be an online option. During these meetings, will be sharing updates as well as creating picket signs for an upcoming info picket.
After months of difficult negotiations, a powerful informational picket, and an overwhelming strike authorization vote, our Union Bargaining Team fought late into the night on October 8 and reached a tentative agreement on a new contract!
The Nominations are in, now it’s time to vote for who will represent you and your coworkers from Ballard, Central District, and Issaquah PCCs on the newly formed PCC Labor Management Advisory Committee (LMAC). Secure online voting will take place Wednesday, October 21 from 8am to 8pm. Every PCC store elects one LMAC representative, you may only vote on a nominee from your own store.
Following a series of highly attended vote meetings on Monday, October 5, union technical workers at St. Joseph Medical Center voted nearly unanimously to:
Reject CommonSpirit’s subpar contract offer
Authorize a STRIKE
“We set the stage and gave our comprehensive proposal letting the employer know that our priorities are to win wages that we deserve, improve our transportation benefits, win immigration protection language as well as ensuring the safety of our co-workers. We are eager to see what BDA’s response is on the 21. ” -Kota Owens, Bargaining Team Member
For the first time in history, on Tuesday, Sept 29, grocery store workers from across Washington State and North Idaho met at the same table to plan for our upcoming bargaining session with Kroger and Albertsons.
Our team met with the employer again today to continue bargaining. We have finally started discussing economics, focusing on health care and wages, which we know are our members’ top priorities. We've seen very little movement from the employer and know we need to start escalating.
Correcting the Record: Decades after Organizing Her Own Unit, Leslie Ball Is Still Fighting for Her Coworkers
Leslie Ball, a certified surgical technologist at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma and a longtime UFCW 3000 Union Steward, has spent decades standing up for herself and her coworkers.
Her fight for better working conditions began in the late 1990s, when she received a 30-cent wage increase, which ended up only being a five-cent raise after her employer reduced her shift differential by a quarter. With years of experience and a deep understanding of the value surgical techs bring to the table, she knew a nickel wasn’t going to cut it. So she and a coworker, Gail Miller, started organizing their colleagues at St. Joe's despite warnings that previous organizing efforts had failed.
Within a year, they helped Radiology, Respiratory Therapy, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, and other departments form the hospital’s first Technical Unit, which ratified its first contract in 1999.
Please lookout for a vote notice once we can confirm when the ratification vote will take place. Members will all have a chance to review the vote documents and ask questions, we will also hold a meeting to discuss this historic TA very soon. Also, please thank your Bargaining Team! They worked very hard.
We’re getting ready to head to the bargaining table, and we want to hear from you!
Join our Union Bargaining Team for a Bargaining Kick-Off Meeting to talk about the upcoming negotiations, review bargaining priorities, discuss the bargaining process, and answer questions.
This is your opportunity to get involved, share what matters most to you, and help shape our priorities as we prepare for bargaining.
Meeting ID: 821 3753 7914 Passcode: 251390
Get Involved!
Strong contracts are built when members stay informed and involved. Join us as we kick off bargaining and make sure Jefferson County members’ voices are heard at the table.
We look forward to seeing you and hearing from you!
Our Union Bargaining Team has reached a Tentative Agreement with Olympic Medical Center and is recommending a YES vote!
After ten sessions across six months of negotiations, our union Bargaining Team reached the difficult but necessary decision to call for a strike authorization vote.
We’ve come to management with contract language addressing our positions being overstaffed by agency & traveler employees. Management have come to us rejecting this proposal.
Our Bargaining Team is thrilled to announce that on September 22, 2026, an overwhelming majority of our members voted YES and approved the contract! We now have a ratified contract!
Our Union Bargaining Team has been working for several months on an agreement to transition Audiology Assistants and Pathologist Assistants into the existing UFCW 3000 Kaiser Permanente Pro Tech Optical Contract and we have reached a tentative agreement. The Bargaining Team fully recommends this agreement.
SEATTLE – Today the Seattle City Council passed Mayor Katie Wilson’s Fair Pricing and Transparency ordinance with no corporate amendments that open the door to algorithmic pricing or weaken enforcement, making Seattle home to the strongest ban on surveillance pricing in the country.
The employer joined us for two bargaining sessions on September 17 and 18. They have hired a new legal counsel who seemingly is trying to set a different, more collaborative tone with our union. We reached Tentative Agreements on several topics, including an Artificial Intelligence Memorandum of Understanding and an Inclusion Memorandum of Understanding to help protect some of our members who are part of marginalized communities.
Join your Bargaining Team and coworkers for an update on the current bargaining campaigns on Tuesday, Sept 22, 5:30-6:30pm. We will give updates on the St. Michael and St. Joseph bargaining and how we can build power together. Please show your support for your bargaining teams by wearing your union swag with pride every day, but especially today, September 18, for our next bargaining session.
Any questions can be addressed to Charlie King at 360-409-0606 or a Bargaining Team Member.
Our union member Bargaining Team reached a Tentative Agreement and recommends a YES vote to accept the proposal from the employers.
Read MoreEffective January 1, 2025, the per hour contribution rate required by the Sound Health and Wellness Trust will increase to $5.80 per hour.
Read MoreOn December 17, our member-led Bargaining Team sat across the table from PCC, united and ready to hear their response to the proposals we delivered last session. But when they slid their counter-proposals across the table, they fell short of our needs. To be frank, we witnessed rejection after rejection after rejection.
Read MoreThe 3% across-the-board wage increase for all members will be effective the second pay period after ratification. We will share when the ratification bonus will be paid as soon as we get confirmation from management.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, December 16, 2025, Wenatchee Regional Eye Center unanimously voted to ratify our contract first contract!
Read MoreNational Bargaining was scheduled to take place this week, unfortunately, instead of bargaining, Kaiser has chosen to pause bargaining…
Read MoreDespite our disappointment, we knew the next step we should take was to get right back to work and provide management with our counters by the end of the day to keep the process moving forward. With the exception of our benefits proposal, which we felt was necessary to await the employer’s complete response-to, prior to working on a counter ourselves.
Read MoreWe worked hard to negotiate a contract that will benefit us all. We were able to secure improvements, including, wage increases, increases to our premiums, improvements to some non-economic terms, longevity and ratification bonus. Full details of the contract will be available at the vote.
Read MoreOur bargaining committee knows that our coworkers need their raises this holiday season and we want Metropolitan Market to stop dragging their feet on reaching a tentative agreement and allow us to schedule a contract ratification vote.
Read MoreOn Monday, December 15, our Bargaining Team representing the newly-organized oncology clinic workers at Optum Care, Inc. met with management for our first official session of negotiations toward our first Union contract!
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Thank you for recommending us to represent the nurses at Providence Regional Medical Center. We look forward to getting started early and approving language that benefits nurses and our patients.
"I am on the Bargaining Team again because I feel strongly about continuing the fight for a contract that we can be proud of."
— Stephanie Sausman
"I believe in the power of our voices to create change for the benefit of our families, our community, and our patients."
— Kimball Conlon
"I'm looking forward to representing all of our Providence nurses and also being an active advocate for our surgical services RNs."
— Carrie Rimel
"I am grateful to have been nominated by my fellow peers to help represent all nurses in obtaining a fair and equitable contract with our Employer. One that supports safe staffing for our patient's well-being and for them to get the care they need to be safe, not having to be provided by the rapid response team because they are declining while hospitalized."
— Tulena Lammers
"Looking forward to representing per diem RNs and fighting for safe staffing."
— Amanda Chinnick
"Nurses are the Union, UNITE!"
— Scott Ryan
"I believe in the power of our voices to make a difference for everybody. I'm committed to this process and believe we have a strong team."
— Terry Peirce
Not pictured: Juan Stout and Kristen Crowder
Reach out to our Bargaining Team or Union Rep Anthony Cantu at (206) 436-6566, if you have any questions, concerns, or you simply would like to discuss what's happening.
We are excited to announce that we have been working with the hospital on an agreement so that bargaining unit employees who are using Washington State Paid Family Medical Leave may elect to use up to twelve hours of Earned Time per pay period as a supplemental benefit.
Read MoreOn December 8, our union Bargaining Team met with Recovery Cafe Management for another session to discuss wages and health care.
Read MoreOur contract negotiations with PCC are heating up. In back-to-back sessions on December 9 and 10, our member-led Bargaining Team delivered most of our proposals, including:
Read MoreWe want to be sure that everyone is doing well and staying safe during the catastrophic events that are affecting the Skagit geographic area. For more information and resources, please see the following post Resources for Members During Flooding and Extreme Weather Events — UFCW 3000
Read More“I am extremely proud of this bargaining team and unit. While at points contentious, the team fought off takeaways and very low offers from the employer, and we maintained our forward progress. We will continue to explore every available path to achieve career growth opportunities and higher wages.” - Michael McDonald - ER Tech
Read MoreAs we navigate these adverse weather effects, please remember there are resources and rights through our union and through our communities that can help.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, December 9, Union Members overwhelmingly voted to ratify our contract.
Read MoreWe are the Union. The members of UFCW 3000 are over 50,000 members working in grocery, retail, health care, meat packing, cannabis, & other industries across Washington state, north-east Oregon, and northern Idaho. UFCW 3000 is a chartered member of UFCW International with over 1.4 million workers in North America.
To build a powerful Union that fights for economic, political and social justice in our workplaces and in our communities.
Correcting the Record: Decades after Organizing Her Own Unit, Leslie Ball Is Still Fighting for Her Coworkers
Leslie Ball, a certified surgical technologist at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma and a longtime UFCW 3000 Union Steward, has spent decades standing up for herself and her coworkers.
Her fight for better working conditions began in the late 1990s, when she received a 30-cent wage increase, which ended up only being a five-cent raise after her employer reduced her shift differential by a quarter. With years of experience and a deep understanding of the value surgical techs bring to the table, she knew a nickel wasn’t going to cut it. So she and a coworker, Gail Miller, started organizing their colleagues at St. Joe's despite warnings that previous organizing efforts had failed.
Within a year, they helped Radiology, Respiratory Therapy, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, and other departments form the hospital’s first Technical Unit, which ratified its first contract in 1999.
Jenny C., a transporter at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, knows what it looks like when management hopes a problem will just go away.
Jenny has watched the facility's transport elevators malfunction for more than a year, filing report after report after each incident she witnessed. Supervisors did not appear to take these complaints seriously.