Respect UW Caregivers
This year, over 4,000 of us in our union from Harborview Medical Center and UW Medicine-Northwest Hospital are bargaining our new contract that respects our work and our patients.
We just experienced the hardest year of our careers, but through it all we did everything we could to provide the best quality care to our patients, even in conditions of inadequate PPE and short staffing. During contract bargaining this year, UW Medicine administration has the opportunity to respect our sacrifice, protect us and our patients from COVID-19 and future pandemics, and pay us what is necessary to recruit and retain the top-quality caregivers our patients deserve.
Latest Updates

UW isn’t above the law: L&I says HMC illegally assigning mandatory call
We’re being made to work mandatory overtime due to chronic short staffing, a problem Harborview created well before COVID. Instead of fixing the problem they

We are Northwest Hospital: Taking action for a contract that puts patients first
With unity breaks, unit petitions, community banners and meeting with Governor Jay Inslee and preparing for our strike vote, our message is clear: Respect Us,

Sticker-up: Fixing staffing is a no brainer
We’re united to ensure each patient that comes to Harborview receives excellent care. When that can’t happen due to a lack of resources and short

Unity break and march: Don’t profit from our short-staffing
We’re bringing solutions to the bargaining table NOW because our patients can’t wait for UW Medicine to finally settle a contract that invests in their

We will vote as a full membership starting October 27
UW can either bring proposals to meet our and our patients’ needs, or we will move forward with a vote to authorize a strike. UW

We took action for ourselves, our patients, and our communities
In our largest action ever, we took our demands of equity, recovery, safe staffing, and competitive wages for each of us to our community. Thousands
Respect us, protect us, pay us
Our vision for a contract that serves all of us






