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Judge adds 30 days to strike ban at Olympic Medical Center; more talks slated ...

Olympic Medical Center emergency room nurse Christy Wright, left, speaks during a public hearing on contract negotiations between the hospital and the Service Employees International Union on Wednesday night at the hospital. Listening at the table are, from left, hospital board member Arlene Engel, board secretary Gay Lynn Iseria and board member John Miles. EDITOR'S NOTE — This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

CORRECTION: Olympic Medical Center settled a three-year contract with UFCW 21 Home Health in April. The original story published today (Aug. 18, 2011) erroneously said OMC settled a three-year contract with UFCW 21 in April. UFCW 21 has four other bargaining units besides Home Health. The other bargaining units are still in negotiations with the hospital.


By Rob Ollikainen
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — A temporary restraining order averting a workers' strike at Olympic Medical Center has been extended for 30 days.

Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Jay B. Roof on Wednesday granted a joint request of OMC and Service Employees International Union Healthcare 1199NW to extend the expiring temporary order.

The new order will expire
Sept. 16, at which time Kitsap County Superior Court Judge M. Karlynn Haberly will consider a preliminary injunction that OMC attorney David Smith of the Seattle law firm Garvey Schubert Barer filed Aug. 8.

A preliminary injunction would maintain the status quo for the remainder of the case and prevent the 369 SEIU-represented nurses, dietary workers and service workers from striking over health care insurance costs and staffing levels.

After mediated contract talks came to a stalemate last month, SEIU had threatened an 18-hour walkout Aug. 11.

Haberly, who is presiding over the case because Clallam County judges recused themselves, issued a two-week restraining order to avert the strike Aug. 3.

Police Blotter 9/7/11 | Inside Bainbridge

September 6

• King County Jail called to confirm a warrant.

September 5

• A person with two Bainbridge Island Municipal Court warrants was contacted by the Lake Stevens Police Department. The wanted person was booked into Snohomish County Jail on the warrants.

September 4

• A person with a Bainbridge Island Municipal Court was contacted by the Seattle Police Department. The wanted person was booked into King County Jail on the warrant.

September 2

• Officers responded to a suspicious vehicle on Hidden Cove Rd. The reporting party called to report a pickup truck that was parked near her residence. The pickup was driven into an overgrown driveway approximately 50 feet off the roadway. Officers were unable to contact the out-of-state registered owner.

• An officer contacted the maintenance manager at the Western View apartments on High School Rd. in regards to a leaf blower that had been stolen from the maintenance shed. The door was unlocked at the time of the theft. There are no suspects at this time.

September 1

• A citizen turned in a Verizon cell phone she found at Battle Point Park.

• Officers responded to a Point Monroe address for a suspicious male. The male was seen looking at a dinghy located in the front yard of a residence. The male was confronted by the occupant of the residence and then left on foot. Officers contacted the male who told the officers he was looking at the dinghy and thought that it was abandoned. The male was given a ride to the ferry terminal where he took the ferry back to Seattle.

• An officer stopped and cited a driver for driving with a suspended license on High School Rd.

• A Bremerton resident was cited and released during a traffic stop at Koura and 305 when it was discovered that the driver had a suspended license.

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