SEIU Healthcare 1199NW

Behavioral health workers at Compass Health - NW Washington delivered our 10-day notice of intent to hold informational pickets to CEO Tom Sebastian today. We’re ready to take action! After 16 months in bargaining, it’s time for Compass Health to quit stalling and to settle a strong contract that recruits and retains us instead of moving backward. Proposing cuts to healthcare benefits for healthcare workers is wrong!

Compass Health must live up to its commitment to care for the communities we serve across Western Washington. Our clients in Whatcom, Snohomish, Island, Skagit, and San Juan counties deserve quality behavioral health care, but supporting communities starts with supporting workers.

Save the date📅 and make a plan to stand with us on the picket line!

🟣July 29: Picket at Compass Health in Bellingham,12-1 p.m.
🟣August 1: Picket and rally at Mukilteo E&T, 4-6 p.m.
🟣August 3: Rally in Bellingham, 11 a.m.

Picket and rally locations will be announced soon.

What do we want? A fair contract! 🗣️ When do we want it? Now! 🗣️

Healthcare workers at Valley Medical Center in Renton aren’t backing down from action, even as UW Medicine administration continues to bring major takeaways to the bargaining table and plans to cut important care for our patients. From closing down the Eye Clinic, an important place where vulnerable community members receive care, to eliminating important premium pay, to making it easier to replace our union jobs with non-union contracted workers, and more, it’s clear that UW Medicine is more interested in protecting their bottom line than protecting workers and patients.

That’s why we held two important actions this week – first, we attended the VMC Board of Commissioners and Renton City Council meetings on Monday to share our stories and present a letter signed by dozens of elected officials, community leaders and members calling on Valley to live up to their mission and keep the Eye Clinic open.

Today, we held our weekly Wednesday Rally at Valley to stand together for a fair contract, show management our unity, and hype up our bargaining team!

From the frontlines to the bargaining table, we are one Valley. We are united and will continue to take actions to keep our Eye Clinic open and to secure the contract we need to recruit and retain and provide quality care.

📣 Important update 📣 Safe staffing laws, including meal and rest break requirements, are changing for over 60 healthcare job classes. Because we stood together with union healthcare workers across the state, our legislature passed new staffing laws in 2022. Implementation for those laws have begun. Read our newest bulletin to know your rights and what to expect as these laws go into effect: https://1199nw.org/3W5w6fU

UFCW 3000 Washington State Nurses Association

Healthcare workers at Kadlec, the largest hospital in the Tri-Cities, held a candlelight vigil shedding light on our fight for a union contract, demanding fair wages and better conditions. Providence must do better.

"Same employer, same job, same salary": Kadlec workers demand union On the evening of July 8, healthcare workers at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland held a candlelight vigil shedding light on their fight for a union co

We're staying united and persistent at the bargaining table for fair wages, affordable healthcare, strong retirement benefits, respect, and a culture of belonging at Comprehensive Life Resources in Tacoma.

Our unity is moving management, but we still have a ways to go -- that's why we wore stickers this week to show CLR that we'll keep taking action until we win a strong contract that recruits and retains quality behavioral health workers.

Nurses at DSHS/DOH/DCYF across the state are energized and fired up after our second round of contract negotiations yesterday!

We are united for better pay, a safe work environment, and diversity equity and inclusion for ALL our members across the state so that we can continue to deliver quality patient care.

Behavioral health workers at Compass have been holding strong at the bargaining table for wages that bring the lowest paid workers up to regional standards, and to preserve our healthcare benefits. Now, we have taken our fight to the community to make our voice even louder!

You can find our signs, saying “Supporting Communities Starts With Supporting Workers”, all over Whatcom County, including at Bakerview Starbucks, Woods Coffee in Ferndale, Ferndale Public Library, Chocolate Necessities,Third Planet, The Stone Moon, Are You My Human, and our community bulletin board.

Additionally, yesterday we met with state representative Joe Timmons. He heard about our fight for a fair contract and has committed to stand with us.

We are energized by overwhelming community support, and ready and committed to take action to win a great contract!

Last night, healthcare workers at Kadlec in Richland stood united in a moment of silence at our candlelight vigil for safe patient care 🕯️

We know that a strong contract that pays us fairly and uplifts our sacrifices as healthcare workers will ensure that we can deliver the level of quality care that our Tri-Cities community needs. Providence, we’ll continue to call on you until you hear us: come to the bargaining table prepared to settle an agreement with wages that keep up with pay at Swedish so we can recruit and retain caregivers. Invest in care, not executive pay.

While Compass Health continues to bring backwards proposals to the bargaining table, behavioral health workers at Compass facilities across Western WA aren’t backing down from action! We stickered up to show management that our unity won’t stop. We’ll continue to show up for ourselves, our patients, and our communities until we win the strong contract that allows us to live where we work and take care of our families.

Join us in calling on Compass to settle a strong contract by signing our community petition: https://1199nw.org/4daYiFL

We held a successful informational picket at Kadlec in May, but the action doesn't stop there. We're not backing down in our fight for a strong contract that respects our worth and uplifts quality care.

Our message to Providence is clear: “Same employer, same work, same pay.”

With our vote to authorize our bargaining team to call for public action, we also authorized them to call for a strike if necessary. Healthcare workers never want to strike, but we will do what it takes to protect our patients and the quality of care we provide to our Tri-Cities community.

1,100 Tri-Cities medical workers vote to strike if fair wage demands aren’t met Union for 1,100 Kadlec workers say they’re paid less than other Providence hospitals

It doesn’t get clearer than this: Healthcare workers at Valley Medical Center in Renton will NOT move backwards. This week, we united across units and job classes to send a powerful message to UW Medicine administration: NO CUTS TO OUR CONTRACT.

We know that standing united is what’s needed to win a contract that’s great for us, great for our patients, and great for our community. As workers in a public district hospital, we are determined to protect the quality of care we provide – that starts with protecting our wages, our benefits, and our hard-won standards. From the front line to the bargaining table, we’re holding the line against takeaways!

Our unity only continues to grow! 💜 Healthcare workers at Kadlec in Richland purple-d up to show that we stand united for a fair contract with wages that respect our experience and are in line with wages Providence pays our colleagues at Swedish in Seattle. Same work, same employer, same pay! We’re also fighting for safe staffing, fair leave policies, and a voice in our healthcare benefits. We’re holding strong at the bargaining table and ready for action with the support of our community.

Healthcare workers at three Neighborcare clinics in Seattle — 45th Street, Lake City, and Meridian — took a stand today and delivered a petition signed by dozens of us to management. We spoke out about our concerns related to recent safety threats, our ongoing staffing shortages, and communication gaps, among other issues.

We demand better from Neighborcare leadership. Transparency, adequate staffing, and preparedness are not optional. We stand united for the safety of our patients and our staff, and we will continue to advocate until a real safety plan is in place and meaningful steps are taken to address our staffing crisis!

Our unity and persistence has resulted in big wins this year ☀️ Read our recap of recent contract wins, how we’re growing our union, and what we’re looking forward to in the rest of 2024!

Welcoming summer with victories and contracts galore! - SEIU Healthcare 1199NW As summer approaches, we’re reflecting on all we’ve won in 2024 so far. Every day, our unity and persistence as union healthcare workers brings us closer to justice in the workplace and higher standards everywhere. Read on: In January, we welcomed over 1,000 new union siblings! Healthcare worker...

CNAs at UWMC-Northwest came together to celebrate CNA week, enjoy cookies and swag, and stand in solidarity with each other. We are essential to patient care – here’s to CNAs! 🥳

is a celebration of and freedom! Today, we honor the resilience and contributions of Black Americans. Let's celebrate our union members who tirelessly fight for justice, equality, and a better future for all.

Healthcare workers at Prosser Memorial Hospital stand united for fair competitive wages and to maintain our sick/vacation and holiday benefits! Since management is delaying our progress at the bargaining table, we are united to take action. We’ll be voting to take action for a strong contract that recruits and retains us on Wednesday, June 26. Reach out to your bargaining team member for more details.

Happy CNA Week 2024!

Certified Nursing Assistants play a critical role in healthcare by keeping our patients safe, comfortable, monitored, and cared for. Cheers to us, and let’s keep up the fight for fair pay, safety, and respect in our workplaces.

Behavioral health workers at Sound across Western Washington have officially ratified our new contract! After marching on the boss with our supermajority-signed petition, Sound saw our unity and came to the table to settle an agreement that recruits and retains us.

We secured important wage increases (up to a 24% increase!), organizational support from Sound to respect our union, improved vacation and sick time, commitments to our rights as workers, and more. We stood together to show management our power, and it paid off.

We stand with UFCW 3000 healthcare workers in their fight for a fair contract at MultiCare Health System Tacoma General Hospital! 1199NW healthcare workers joined yesterday’s picket line to tell MultiCare enough is enough – administration needs to come to the bargaining table and pay workers their worth. forever!

Happy ! Frontline healthcare workers united in 1199NW celebrate the triumphs of le***an, gay, bisexual, transgender, q***r, intersex, and asexual individuals & recognize the pivotal contributions of LGBTQIA+ labor activists. Together, we’ll fight for LGBTQIA+ rights, labor rights, healthcare access, economic & racial justice!

SEIU Healthcare 1199NW is proud to sponsor the annual NAMI walk because we believe that everyone deserves quality behavioral health!

The rain held off and we had a great time supporting behavioral health's big day. ☀️

Compass Health behavioral healthcare workers are voting YES to bring our contract fight to the public! By standing united and taking continued actions together, we have moved management on some important issues, but we are still far apart on fair wages, healthcare benefits, and equity in the workplace. We love our jobs and caring for our clients, but we know that without a strong contract in place, we aren’t able to live up to the standard of quality care that our community needs.

Join us by adding your name to the community petition calling on Compass to listen to healthcare workers and settle a strong contract! https://1199nw.org/4daYiFL

As we head back to the bargaining table after making our voices heard at our informational picket at Kadlec earlier this week, we’re energized by the momentum we generated with our public action and ready to do what it takes to win a contract that recruits and retains us with wages that pay us our worth. We told Providence: “same employer, same work, same pay,” and we’re determined to keep up the fight!

Along with our vote earlier this month to authorize our bargaining team to call for an informational picket, we also authorized them to call for a strike if necessary, taking into account the required 10-day notice. Healthcare workers never want to strike, but we will do what it takes to protect our patients and the quality of care we provide.

1,100 Tri-Cities medical workers vote to strike if fair wage demands aren’t met Union for 1,100 Kadlec workers say they’re paid less than other Providence hospitals

“Our contract ended December 31 of last year and we’ve gotten nowhere. They won’t pay us what we’re worth, they don’t respect us, we’re overstaffed, we’re underpaid. Our other Providence sisters and brothers in all the other locations get paid more money than us, but [Providence] says we aren’t worthy of it.” Thelma Hedrick, Ultrasound Tech at Kadlec

Kadlec Hospital workers picket in Richland and Kennewick RICHLAND, Wash. --- Hundreds of workers from Kadlec Regional Medical Center (Providence), in Richland and Kennewick were out picketing on Tuesday afternoon.

We will be holding a Bright Future Town Hall tomorrow, Thursday, in the 2nd floor conference room at Mill Creek at 11AM-12:30PM (previously scheduled for 10AM).

Please note the updated start time — we’ve moved it because our officers are at the bargaining table with Providence Kadlec following our union siblings’ informational picket this past Tuesday.

Check out our updated town hall flyer:

Kadlec healthcare workers in Richland and Kennewick are making our voices heard: Same employer, same work, same pay!

Yesterday, alongside our friends, families, and community members, hundreds of Kadlec service and tech healthcare workers picketed outside of our hospital and emergency department to send a message to Providence that we stand strong and united for a contract with fair wages, safe staffing, PTO, and more.

In order to recruit and retain us, Providence needs to step up and accept our proposals that would treat us with the same dignity and respect as it treats healthcare workers at other Providence hospitals like Swedish. We won’t sit back while they keep putting profits over patients!

Shout out to our SEIU Local 925 SEIU 775 and Washington State Nurses Association siblings for joining us on the picket line and standing in solidarity with us.

It’s time for Providence to invest in Kadlec and our Tri-Cities community by settling a strong contract with healthcare workers. Join us on the picket lines tomorrow, May 28 in Richland and Kennewick. Same employer, same job, same pay!

Kadlec employees to hold informational picket, rally on May 28 RICHLAND, Wash.-SEIU Healthcare plans to hold informational pickets and a rally on Tuesday, May 28.

More than 1,100 service and tech healthcare workers at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland and its Freestanding Emergency Room in Kennewick will be holding an informational picket next week to call on corporate parent Providence to invest in Kadlec and our Tri-Cities community. The time to settle a fair contract is NOW.

See you on the picket line! RSVP at kadlecunited.org.

Standing united means we can win life-changing contracts that recruit and retain healthcare workers and keep us protected from unfair discipline. We're !