Union vs. Olympic Medical Center
Over 100 health care workers demonstrated last week, asking Olympic Medical Center to settle a contract with its union workers. Over three hundred Olympic Medical Center employees are members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
OMC and the union have spent the past year negotiating a new contract.
OMC and the union have spent the past year negotiating a new contract.
posted by Tom Harper at 4:28 PM
4 Comments:
The wages they were promised, affordable healthcare, safe staffing levels: these are important things. The new cafeteria building expansions and wall fountains are not necessary to providing healthcare. They say they are broke but they are simply choosing to spend un-wisely, very much like the city...
Tom, can you do a post about the CSO project? I was very confused about this issue until I watched a presentation about it. They are combinung the storm water and the sewage which will result in several overflows of both, untreated, into the harbor. This is very backwards thinking as communities have found great success in keeping them separate as storm water can be a resource not a waste. Also the city has done tons of work in separate piping why make that pointless at the end? Another point is that in 2015 the EPA will require them to be separate anyway meaning they will have to re-do this VERY expensive job. Check in with Olympic environmental council for more information darlenes@olympus.net
Anami: I don't usually do detailed "journalistic" types of posts at this blog. I found a few articles when I searched for "CSO project Darlene Schanfald." I could do a short post with links to one or more of those articles -- probably tomorrow sometime.
Hope that'll help.
The city has a habit of misrepresenting things to get what it wants done. For example, in order to gain support for their $40 Million project, they say disconnecting roof downspouts from the sewage system will cost $4,200 per house. Anyone can Google disconnect roof downspouts, and see city websites saying it costs about $20.
The water collected on roofs that is put into the sewage system is the reason the sewage overflows happen. This whole thing being promoted by the city is just plain stupid.
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