‘MultiCare Exposed’: Workers take contract fight public

Healthcare workers will picket three MultiCare locations on Friday escalating their demands for a fair contract

SEATTLE, WA (April 1, 2026) — Thousands of healthcare workers at MultiCare facilities in Washington state have had enough. After months of bargaining and little movement from management, workers represented by SEIU Healthcare 1199NW are taking their contract fight public, calling out MultiCare for failing to invest in frontline care providers. With three informational pickets planned for this Friday, workers at MultiCare have launched a website, MultiCareExposed.org, where healthcare workers will be “telling the truth about what’s happening inside our hospitals and holding MultiCare accountable,” per 1199NW. The website is also a place where patients and community members can share their experiences trying to navigate the MultiCare system.

Bargaining teams for the facilities in Yakima, Puyallup, and Seattle have met management at the table for dozens of negotiation sessions. Currently, healthcare workers are pushing back against employer proposals that lowball on wages, undercut affordable healthcare, and weaken workplace standards.

Photo: SEIU Healthcare 1199NW

MultiCare, which enjoys tax exempt status as a non-profit, paid it’s CEO more than $7.7 million in compensation alone in 2024. Per SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, MultiCare spent more than $22 million on their top ten executives in 2024, almost double the compensation offered just two years prior. Despite millions doled out to the C-suite, frontline workers are being asked to take on higher healthcare costs, the union reports.

From SEIU Healthcare 1199NW:

While we’re fighting for fair wages and affordable healthcare, MultiCare is spending big on expansion instead of investing in the people who provide care. 

They’ve grown into a system with nearly 3,000 hospital beds, 13 hospitals, and more than 300 clinics across three states. They employ over 28,000 workers, and they’re still expanding: they’re buying hospitals; they’re adding new campuses; they’re purchasing land for future growth. 

MultiCare is putting money into real estate and executive salaries while frontline workers are getting shortchanged. Rather than accept a subpar contract, healthcare workers are standing up for themselves and their patients. Workers at three MultiCare facilities will hold informational pickets and rallies from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, April 3 at these locations:

Picket at Yakima Memorial Hospital
On W Tieton Dr. between 28th and 30th Ave, Yakima

Picket at Good Samaritan Hospital
On 15th Ave SE and S Meridian, Puyallup

Picket at Navos Behavioral Health Hospital
2600 SW Holden St, Seattle

TAKE A STAND: join SEIU Healthcare 1199NW siblings at an informational picket near you (you can RSVP on Facebook).