SEIU 1199NW – UW Negotiations Recap for October 21, 2025
Parties have been in mediation since our last scheduled bargaining session on July 31, 2025. Since then, the parties have had six mediation sessions on August 12th &13th, September 18th & 22nd, October 13th & 21st.
In addition to the TA’s that were reached prior to mediation, the following articles have been TA’d during the last several mediation sessions:
- Article 5 – Employment Practices
- Article 6 – Seniority, Layoff, Restructure
- Article 14 – Unpaid Absence
- Article 30 – Classifications and Reclassifications
- Article 32 – Salary Overpayment Recovery
- Appendix E – 12-Hour Work Schedule
- MOU – Ground Rules for the 2025-2027 Agreement
- New MOU – Facilitated Mediation (Cross Entity Float Pool)
- New MOU – Language Pay
- Side Letter F – Work Experience Review
- New MOU – Lab Assistant Series
- New MOU – MLS Series
- New Side Letter – Breaks and Staffing Plan Compliance
- New MOU – Sports Medicine or OB/GYN Layoffs
- New MOU – CNA Floating Discussions
- New Union MOU – Security Staffing
- New Union MOU – Safety Boot Reimbursement
The outstanding articles include:
- Article 7 – Hours of Work and Overtime
- Article 8 – Compensation
- Article 9 – Other Compensation
- MOU – Pre-Scheduled Voluntary Double-Time Shift Incentive for Critical Staffing Needs
- New MOU – Higher Min Step on BU table
- New Union MOU – Standby Pilot
Next Steps
At this time, there are no additional bargaining-mediation sessions scheduled.
UW and SEIU 1199NW have been engaged in negotiations for a successor contract since March. The current contract expired July 31, 2025. Fora summary of the parties’ previous proposals, please refer to the prior SEIU 1199NW bargaining updates.