{"id":14122,"date":"2025-10-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/labor\/2025\/10\/23\/seiu-1199nw-uw-negotiations-recap-for-october-21-2025-2"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:48:51","slug":"seiu-1199nw-uw-negotiations-recap-for-october-21-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/labor\/2025\/10\/23\/seiu-1199nw-uw-negotiations-recap-for-october-21-2025-2","title":{"rendered":"SEIU 1199NW \u2013 UW Negotiations Recap for October 21, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp;13th, September 18th &amp; 22nd, October 13th &amp; 21st.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the TA&#8217;s that were reached prior to mediation, the following articles have been TA&#8217;d during the last several mediation sessions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Article 5 &#8211; Employment Practices<\/li>\n<li>Article 6 &#8211; Seniority, Layoff, Restructure<\/li>\n<li>Article 14 &#8211; Unpaid Absence<\/li>\n<li>Article 30 &#8211; Classifications and Reclassifications<\/li>\n<li>Article 32 &#8211; Salary Overpayment Recovery<\/li>\n<li>Appendix E &#8211; 12-Hour Work Schedule<\/li>\n<li>MOU &#8211; Ground Rules for the 2025-2027 Agreement<\/li>\n<li>New MOU &#8211; Facilitated Mediation (Cross Entity Float Pool)<\/li>\n<li>New MOU &#8211; Language Pay<\/li>\n<li>Side Letter F &#8211; Work Experience Review<\/li>\n<li>New MOU &#8211; Lab Assistant Series<\/li>\n<li>New MOU &#8211; MLS Series<\/li>\n<li>New Side Letter &#8211; Breaks and Staffing Plan Compliance<\/li>\n<li>New MOU &#8211; Sports Medicine or OB\/GYN Layoffs<\/li>\n<li>New MOU &#8211; CNA Floating Discussions<\/li>\n<li>New Union MOU &#8211; Security Staffing<\/li>\n<li>New Union MOU &#8211; Safety Boot Reimbursement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The outstanding articles include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Article 7 &#8211; Hours of Work and Overtime<\/li>\n<li>Article 8 &#8211; Compensation<\/li>\n<li>Article 9 &#8211; Other Compensation<\/li>\n<li>MOU &#8211; Pre-Scheduled Voluntary Double-Time Shift Incentive for Critical Staffing Needs<\/li>\n<li>New MOU &#8211; Higher Min Step on BU table<\/li>\n<li>New Union MOU &#8211; Standby Pilot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next Steps<br \/>\nAt this time, there are no additional bargaining-mediation sessions scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>UW and SEIU 1199NW have been engaged in negotiations for a successor contract since March. The current contract expired July 31, 2025. Fora\u00a0 summary of the parties&#8217; previous proposals, please refer to the prior SEIU 1199NW bargaining updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp;13th, September 18th &amp; 22nd, October 13th &amp; 21st. 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