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Tentative contract agreement with Providence Medical Center in Everett, Washington leaves nurses facing chronic understaffing
One and a half months after 1,700 registered nurses voted to authorize a strike to address inadequate staffing and pay issues, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 21 has reached a tentative agreement (TA) with Providence Regional Medical Center facilities in Everett, Washington. The contract vote is set for July 23.
The deal was announced on the local union’s website on July 13 along with sketchy highlights. The bargaining committee states that the TA achieved the “protection of benefits, insures affordable healthcare costs, great wages and much more!” Highlights include a $2,000 “pandemic pay” bonus, a “legacy bonus” for long-term employees, a “total of a 15% wage increase for the life of the contract,” down from the 21 percent increase initially demanded by the nurses, “increased education funds,” and “strong staffing la
Everett hospital that treated first COVID-19 patient reacts to Washington reopening
Everett s Providence Regional Medical Center was the tip of the spear in America s battle against coronavirus in early 2020. Author: Eric Wilkinson Updated: 6:27 PM PDT June 30, 2021
EVERETT, Wash. As Washington state lifted most of its COVID-19 restrictions, Wednesday, Dr. George Diaz in Everett took a moment to look back at the past 15 months. We heard what was going on in Wuhan, he said. When we got the call for our patient zero we had been preparing for a storm, he said.
That storm would soon sweep all across America with Everett s Providence Medical Center helping navigate a nervous nation through completely uncharted waters.