AUGUST 5, 2021 HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER We Took Action for Our Ourselves, Our UW UW Medicine: meet the Healthcare workers mission are HEROES

BETTER WAGES = BETTER Patients, and Our Community STAFFING

Our Community Stands with Us! We were joined by community partners and elected leaders: Rep. , 34th Legislative District Rep. Kirsten Harris-Talley, In our largest action ever, we took our demands of equity, recovery, safe staffing, 37th Legislative District and competitive wages for each of us to our community. Thousands of us Rep. , demonstrated our unity to defend the missions of our hospitals and clinics by 37th Legislative District picketing at six different UW Medicine locations. Our families, coworkers, neighbors, community leaders, and elected officials spoke with one resounding voice – Rep. Nicole Macri, We demand better from UW Medicine. 43rd Legislative District King County Councilmember “We need better “I am out here on the picket line today Joe McDermott wages and staffing, because we need safe staffing and everyone and we’ll keep is burned out. I know several coworkers who King County Councilmember fighting until UW got COVID and are still dealing with the after Dave Upthegrove meets our mission. effects. I want UW Medicine to make staffing Divided we fall, a priority, management is hiring travelers King County Executive united we rise!” and offering new staff sign-on bonuses. But Dow Constantine - Suzanne King, what about the people who work here and Samantha Koth, Kim have proven to be dedicated? Management City Councilmember Higgins and Raphael is not taking care of those folks — the ones Andrew J. Lewis Chavez, Rx Techs who already work here.” - Carl Delica, RN 5E UFCW 21 “I’m on the picket line for safe AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) staffing! We’re overworked and understaffed — we SEIU 925 don’t feel supported by our organization and nurses are leaving the bedside because of this lack of support. They don’t listen to us, so I’m here to make them listen!” Acacia Kennedy, RN, Med/Surg

“We’re picketing for our HMC family, “I’m on the picket line for better but above all our most vulnerable staffing — respect for staff patients. We’re holding UW Medicine and patients! The mission of accountable to do the right thing this hospital is to serve the in providing safe staffing and an underrepresented and marginalized. environment of inclusion to meet our When we are understaffed, we can’t mission. We’ve been pushed to our meet the needs of this community breaking points. UW Medicine must and it’s to their detriment. When finally start prioritizing those of us administration expects us to do in the trenches of patient every day.” more with less, we hit the streets!” Michelle Chan, RN 3WC Gwen Rushing, RN, 2West

Follow us and be part of the conversation @SEIUHealthcare1199NW www.seiu1199nw.org • 1-800-422-8934 seiu1199nw.org bb 080521 picket hmc “Frontline healthcare Rally for Safe workers have worked tirelessly and at great Patient Care at risk to themselves OPMC and to their families Harborview Park throughout the pandemic. Without a fair contract, we cannot retain and we cannot “I was a nurse recruit the healthcare workers we need at Harborview before I joined to keep this community safe and healthy. the union, and That’s why it is in the public interest to this fight is get this settled in a way that is fair for personal for every worker.” -Dow Constantine, King me. We, as County Executive Shoreline a union, we follow our “We know what respect values so we looks like – it looks can improve our working like hiring the folks conditions for our patients. We value you need beside you competitive wages that will recruit and at every level to do retain the best healthcare workers. We the care you need. value racial equity and fairness for all. Whether you’re wiping a We value the sacrifices that you have doorknob, or making sure those masks made in the past year. Your jobs have are stocked, or holding someone’s hand Woodinville been so hard – every day you’ve come while they’re figuring out what happens to work and you’ve put your lives at next for their loved one. Every one of you risk so the community can have what matter and deserve respect. When you they need. We value safe staffing. What ask for equity in pay, that is not about has been very clear in the past couple of months is that management does you – that is about the care for every not share those values. They need to patient and every family that walks in put you first. Are you ready for this these doors.” -Kirsten Harris-Talley, fight? We’re going to win this fight. You State Representative, 37th Legislative inspire me. Stay strong.” -Jane Hopkins, District RN, Executive Vice President, SEIU “I (and Hugo the Frenchie) Harborview Healthcare 1199NW am picketing in support “If we’re of my fellow PA/ARNPs, outside, social workers, and something is nursing staff who work wrong inside tirelessly to provide — because as adequate care to our healthcare community under such excruciating workers, we conditions. In the last few months, the want to be PES has lost insurmountable talent with our including our charge nurse, social Northwest patients. workers, seasoned nurses, and PA. We have Some of our nurses are pulling 16 hour a lot of patience shifts to fill gaps in the schedule. The for our patients; what we don’t have solutions UW has provided will not suffice a lot of patience for is management in retaining the crucial experienced stalling and not coming to the table staff needed as we face impending and bargaining the contract we need. challenges in delivering care. My fellow Shame on UW Medicine.” -Diane Sosne, PA/ARNPs and social workers have been RN, President, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW neglected in wage market adjustments under current proposals, undervaluing Federal Way our impact to efficient patient care. I love the work I do and cannot imagine doing it without the support of my experienced colleagues. We’re calling on administration to take our concerns seriously or risk a mass exodus of experienced staff who are struggling to hold this place together.” -Aroldo Trejo, Physician Assistant, Psychiatric Our next steps Emergency Services We are calling on UW Medicine to meet us back at the bargaining table at any time. We are ready to secure commitments to our priorities in a contract that puts our patients first and secures our futures at UW Medicine. Talk to your bargaining team member or delegate to find out how you can keep building our power at Harborview Medical Center.

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