by jrojas | Sep 26, 2013 | Press Center
Nurses, healthcare workers, home care aides and nursing home workers today endorsed Sen. Ed Murray for mayor of Seattle. The state’s two largest healthcare unions called out Sen. Murray’s record as an advocate for affordable quality health and long-term care, a...
by juliep | Sep 25, 2013 | Press Center, Updates
More than 800 St. Joseph Medical Center and Lab workers, including medical technologists, dietary aides, housekeeping staff, Xray technicians, nursing assistants, and laboratory staff voted this week to form their union with SEIU Healthcare 1199NW. “I’ve worked...
by jrojas | Aug 27, 2013 | Press Center
Our Unity Keeps Health Benefit Costs Down! Our priority has been health benefits that are affordable, accessible and designed to keep our costs down over the long term. Now, we have reached a tentative agreement on our health benefits with the Group Health...
by juliep | Aug 2, 2013 | Press Center
Yakima Regional’s parent company, HMA, announced a likely buyout by CHS, Community Health Systems. If this buyout is finalized next March it would bring many changes to our hospital that, because we have a union, we will sit at the table and bargain. Who is CHS?...
by juliep | Aug 2, 2013 | Press Center
We formed our union to have better standards for our patients and families. That means wages that help us recruit and retain the best staff, and the security of our contract and protection of our rights no matter which facility we work at. The hospital has told us...
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