Harbors Home Health & Hospice - Things are heating up!

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Harbors Home Health & Hospice
Things are heating up!

“When it comes to our hardworking staff at Harbors Home Health- it’s quality over quantity. We should be focused on keeping people here. Recruiting new employees is really only a band-aid if you can’t incentivize them to stay!” —Michal Bishop, LPN

We met with the Employer on February 26 and 27 to continue negotiations on our contract. On Monday, while presenting our economic proposal - we presented the petition which a supermajority signed (in just 2 weeks time)!

Harbors responded to this by finally coming to the table proposing an actual increase to our wages, along with an all-new wage scale. The Employer’s new scale, however, offers significantly less growth in wages over time than our current scale does. We’re glad to see the pressure we’ve applied has started to convince Harbors of just how valuable we are - but we won’t let up yet.

Join us at our next bargaining update meeting
Tuesday, March 19 @ 4pm-6pm

Grays Harbor County
Hoqiuam Timberland Library, 420 7th Street, Hoquiam WA, 98550

Pacific County
Harbors Home Health Office, 600 Pacific Avenue S, Suite 1, Long Beach, WA 98631

If you have any questions about bargaining, please contact one of our Bargaining Team members, or reach out to your Union Rep Naomi Oligario @ 360-662-1989.

Harbors Home Health and Hospice From Heroes to Zeroes?!

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Our Bargaining Team (L—R): Michal Bishop, LPN; Sarah Schimelpfenig, RN; Shelbie Graff, RN

“This is about loyalty to me. We’ve been here through really challenging & difficult times - and this is their response?” —Shelbie Graff, RN

We met to bargain with Harbors Home Health & Hospice back-to-back on February 1 and February 2nd to continue our fight for higher wages, better working conditions, and equity for both new & existing employees.

Throughout every year of the pandemic, Health Care workers across the country were called heroes; recognition for our dedication & persistence to provide the life-saving care we always have. Harbors, however, seem to have something else in mind- proposing a ZERO percent increase to our wage scale.

While we fight for equity & fairness at the bargaining table - we’re asking our coworkers to fight alongside us:

Sign the petition demanding that Harbors meet the challenges of the new year, and pay us fairly!

Join us for a bargaining update meeting to get information on ongoing negotiations, and strategize around how to achieve the pay we deserve!

Contract Action Team Meeting Tuesday, February 13 @ 4PM—6PM at Hoquiam Timberland Library, 420 7th St, Hoquiam, WA 98550

Harbors Home Health & Hospice - Bargaining begins!

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Harbors Home Health & Hospice
Bargaining Begins!

Our Harbors Home Health Bargaining Team (L—R): Shelbie Graff, RN; Sarah Schimelpfenig, RN; Michal Bishop, LPN

On November 20 & 21, we met with Management to begin exchanging contract proposals across the table.

While we still have a way to go on reaching to a final agreement - we’ve already exchanged numerous proposals with Harbors - spanning workplace issues like access to union representation, probation & transfer status employees, job posting & hiring practices, and even some economics!

We have provided our availability throughout the month of December to Harbors and are looking forward to joining Management again for future discussions.

Should you have any questions, please reach out to a Bargaining Team member.

If you would like to participate in a Contract Action Team (CAT) meeting, please reach out to Union Rep Naomi Oligario @ 360-662-1989.

Harbors Home Health and Hospice tentative agreement reached

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Harbors Home Health and Hospice

Tentative Agreement Reached

Bargaining Team Recommends a YES Vote

Our bargaining team reached a tentative agreement with management that includes some of these highlights:

  • Wage Increases Each Year

  • Increases to Wage Premiums

  • Ratification Bonus

  • Retirement Improvements

Please join us on Zoom May 6 from 6:00pm-7:30pm to learn more about the exciting changes to our contract.

Harbors Home Health and Hospice Vote Meeting

May 6, 2021 at 6:00PM Pacific Time

“We hope everyone will be able to attend and look forward to talking about the important wins we achieved during these negotiations.” - Harbors Home Health and Hospice Bargaining Team: Sarah Schimelpfenig, RN; Megan Rolfing, RN; Stacy Mathis, Medical Records

Vote Online on May 7th from 9:00am – 9:00pm