We are PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center
We are more than 900 healthcare workers at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham united in SEIU Healthcare 1199NW. We are service and tech workers and lab professionals.
We are fighting for contracts that will protect essential healthcare workers’ rights: great wages, stable and secure benefits, and staffing for safe patient care and less caregiver burnout.
Unfair Labor Practice Strike: May 12-17
May 12-17
UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE STRIKE
We held a five-day unfair labor practice strike to denounce PeaceHealth executives’ bad-faith bargaining and refusal to settle a strong contract with investments in wages and staffing that respect our experience as frontline workers.
With our strike, we put a spotlight on PeaceHealth’s disregard for our workers’ rights under the NLRA, and failure to bring forth meaningful proposals that will recruit and retain us, address inequities in the workplace, and keep patients safe.
Thank you for joining us on the strike line. Together, we showed PeaceHealth that our community stands with us!
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Our Actions
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WE’RE READY TO WALK
After a supermajority of us VOTED YES to authorize our elected bargaining team to call for a 5-day strike, PeaceHealth made no moves on their disrespectful proposals. They continue to offer subpar wages and no weekend differential claiming that “its not a special burden to work on the weekend."
Our Community Stands with Us
We marched on the boss to deliver our community petition to the administration on Thursday, March 7. Concurrently, our petition went out as a full-page spread in both the Bellingham Herald and the Cascadia Daily News. We are getting the word out about PeaceHealth’s intransigence, no matter what it takes! Our community deserves to know what is going on at bargaining.
Making our voices heard
Members of our elected bargaining team, as well as representatives from WSNA and UAPD, gave public comments to the City Council. Councilmembers heard from all three unions about difficulties retaining experienced staff, high patient loads, and PeaceHealth’s disrespectful offers at the bargaining table.
Sign our community petition!
PeaceHealth:
Treat your healthcare workers like family
The healthcare workers of PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center are our siblings, parents, children, and neighbors and they are the bedrock of our Bellingham community. Through the COVID-19 pandemic, they showed up and cared for us in the face of danger and remain dedicated to providing the best care possible to our families and neighbors.
Unfortunately, PeaceHealth management has prioritized excessive executive pay above quality care and the needs of workers and patients. PeaceHealth’s proposals at the bargaining table do not reflect an investment in our healthcare workers so that they can better serve our Whatcom County community. It is simply unacceptable that many PeaceHealth St. Joe’s healthcare workers are not able to afford housing costs and other essential living expenses.
We, as friends, family, neighbors, and community members, call on PeaceHealth executives to accept the proposals our healthcare workers have made to improve their working conditions and patient care. Trust healthcare workers — they know what it takes to safely take care of patients.
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