Join your bargaining team for a meeting where we will meet our fellow union members, review important pieces of the new contract, answer FAQs, and open space for discussion and questions.
Read MoreOur Union Bargaining Team reconvened with Covington Medical Center management Wednesday January 21 for our first bargaining session of 2026 and our seventh overall. We commend management for coming to the table prepared for the first time.
Read MoreOur Union Bargaining Team has been meeting and preparing contract proposals to be ready when Providence provides bargaining dates. Our team is pushing Providence to begin negotiations in February 2026. We are starting biweekly Contract Action Team (CAT) Meetings beginning Tuesday, February 3 at 8:00pm.
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Your Union Bargaining Team encourages all members in good standing to attend one of our scheduled vote meetings to discuss the option of beginning Union negotiations in the spring of 2026, rather than fall/winter of 2026.
It is important that your voice is heard in this decision—and casting your ballot will inform our Bargaining Team on whether we should:
Maintain our current negotiation schedule (fall/winter 2026) and engage in limited wage reopener negotiations with management right away, or
Enter full contract negotiations with Mason General—with the hopes of securing a full new Agreement sooner than we would otherwise.
Tuesday, Feb 3
7am - 9am
12pm - 3pm
5pm - 8pm
Mason General Hospital in the Quality Conference Room (Quality Building is located just across the street from the hospital, at 233 Professional Way)
Our Union Bargaining Team reached a tentative agreement with Management this week for a successor contract. The proposed agreement contains many improvements including:
Read MoreOn Jan 20, our member-led Bargaining Team came to the table expecting meaningful progress. However, PCC only moved a few half-steps forward. They proposed:
Read MoreOn Tuesday, January 20 our union Bargaining Team met with Recovery Cafe Management for another session to discuss our hours of work, wages, health care benefits, and vacation accruals. As in previous sessions we hoped to have received full responses from the employer at the table.
Read MoreOn Thursday, January 15, we met with Cascade Valley Hospital Management to continue without bargaining. They gave us a comprehensive response to our economic proposals. The committee is studying them and will respond on Thursday, February 5. We have made it clear to Management that our goal is to align salaries with the Skagit Regional Health contract. One Company, One pay scale!
Read MoreOn January 15, UFCW 3000 members at NW Administrators overwhelmingly ratified LOUs that will ensure insurance premiums for workers remain affordable despite higher than expected plan costs for the new year.
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This Tentative Agreement is fully recommended by the Grocery Store Bargaining Committee!
After months of bargaining with Rosauers for a new contract that respects our work, increases our wages, and improves our sick leave, bereavement leave, and vacation, we are holding a contract vote! This notice serves to inform all members that a contract vote meeting will be held on January 26 for members covered by the Rosauers Moscow Grocery and Moscow Meat contracts.
The team will present the tentative agreement received from the Employer. Members will have the opportunity to discuss the terms and implications of the offer before voting on the fully recommended settlement.
Any member covered by the Rosauers Moscow Grocery and Moscow Meat contracts who is in good standing is encouraged to attend this vote meeting. Contact a Bargaining Team member or your Union Rep for any questions!
January 26
8am - 12pm
2pm - 6pm
Rosauers Moscow Break Room
411 N Main St, Moscow, ID 83843
On January 14, we met for our fifth bargaining session with Management at CTC to continue negotiations on our first contract. We first met with the Employer at 11am to receive their counterproposals, as we had provided them with responses to everything in our previous session on December 12.
Read MoreOn Jan 14, our member-led Bargaining Team came to the table expecting a response to the proposals we delivered last session. Unfortunately, PCC was not ready to respond
Read MoreOn January 14, our Bargaining Team met with Uwajimaya for the first time for contract negotiations. We put forward several proposals which would recognize the premium work done in our meat departments compared to mainstream grocery stores. These proposal included:
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Union members at Sacred Heart Spokane On Strike in 2024
As of January 1, 2026, locked-out or striking workers in Washington are eligible for up to six weeks of unemployment insurance (UI) starting as early as 15 days after a strike begins.
The money doesn’t fully replace a paycheck, and workers would need to meet the usual UI requirements. But, combined with our Union’s strike benefits on day one, the new law significantly strengthens our bargaining power.
Last year, our employers and their lobbyists made killing this legislation their top priority. Despite their best efforts, the collective strength of our membership and other union members across the state pushed this bill over the finish line.
Now, we need to prepare to make the most of this benefit.
Our union faces big contract fights in the coming years. Getting prepared – and staying prepared – for a strike will help us all make decisions with strength and certainty when the time comes.
“We need a strike-ready union to fight against corporate greed. If we’re not strong when the time comes, they’ll roll right over us, and we really can’t afford that.” – Todd Heuer, Ballard Fred Meyer
If you save $10 per week between Jan 1, 2026 and May 1, 2027, you’ll have roughly $700 set aside. That extra cushion will help stretch UI benefits and strike pay if we strike.
Review our union’s strike page, read up on Washington’s unemployment eligibility, and browse for information on union hardship funds and community aid options.
Have you moved recently? Changed your name or phone number? Swapped worksites? Then take time now to update your contact info. Staying connected gives us strength and unity if bargaining heats up.
Contact your Union Rep to learn how to build more power in your store.
On Friday, January 9, we met with MultiCare for our fourth session of union contract negotiations. We started off our day by providing Management with our responses to a number of articles following our previous bargaining session; including language on hours of work and overtime, paid time off, medical/personal/and educational leaves of absence, health insurance benefits, and a grievance procedure. After returning these articles to Management, all of the outstanding contract items were in MultiCare’s court to work on and respond to.
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We are waiting for Kaiser management to get back to the table. Both parties have a legal obligation to bargain in good faith. The Alliance sent a letter to Greg Adams requesting that management return to bargaining.
Read the Letter to Greg Adams >>
Wages and Retro Pay (currently Kaiser has not agreed to retroactive pay)
Contract Alignment (although we bargain at the same time, many contracts including the KPWA Pharmacy contract have different expiration dates)
Staffing (staffing in partnership continues to be a challenge)
Our Washington Pharmacy and Pro Tech Optical contracts are still not finished. Management seems to believe that KPWA pharmacists should be paid the same as retail pharmacists.
We have newly accreted job classifications for Pro Tech Optical that should be included in the contract, but management wants to postpone.
Our Bargaining Teams are committed to resolving our differences and finalizing these agreements.
We need to send a strong message to management that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Come to our Contract Action Team Meeting where we will discuss next steps.
Wednesday, January 21
6pm
For additional information contact a Bargaining Team member or Aisha Womack Union Rep 206-436-6584 and JJ Benson Contract Specialist 425-306-1357
Pharmacy Bargaining Team: Cesar Galloso, Jason Lindquist, Kay Halverson, JJ Benson, Krystal Krotzer, Mark Stewart
Pro Tech Optical Bargaining Team: Nicole Merriam, Sarah Lau, Ashleigh Aufort, Chandra Allen, Vicki Kobeski, Juli Bell, Bryana Kolppa
Bargaining continued January 7 and 9 and we reached many new tentative agreements. In creating this new contract we have been working to create language which provides opportunities for collaboration with Management.
Read MoreUFCW 3000 stands with the labor movement in condemning another wasteful, unconstitutional, and unprovoked attack on a sovereign country…
Read MoreAfter another full day of bargaining, the employer has failed yet again to provide comprehensive responses that we can meaningfully respond to. We feel the employer is continuing to frustrate the bargaining process with the lack of responses in a timely manner and lack of respect for our time…
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.
