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Virginia Mason patient-care technician urges King County council solidarity as contract bargaining enters strike-vote phase
Summary
A patient-care technician at Virginia Mason told the council the bargaining team has filed and won unfair-labor-practice complaints and that a strike vote begins this week; she asked King County officials for solidarity and follow-up contact if the union issues a strike notice.
Taryn Burnett, a patient-care technician at Virginia Mason Hospital on First Hill, used the public-comment period at Tuesday’s Metropolitan King County Council meeting to ask county officials for solidarity as her bargaining unit moves into a strike-vote phase.
Burnett told the council she is a member of the bargaining team for staff who unionized last year and said the group has…
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