Spokane MultiCare hospital workers picket amid stalling contract negotiations

Healthcare workers gather and dance to the disco song "YMCA" outside Multi-Care Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, for an informational picket and rally to call on MultiCare management to listen to frontline caregivers and put patients over profits. (DAN PELLE/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW)
Cathy Gunderson, left, joined John Frostad, respiratory therapist and other healthcare workers as they gathered outside Multi-Care Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, for an informational picket and rally to call on MultiCare management to listen to frontline caregivers and put patients over profits. (DAN PELLE/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW)
Healthcare workers gather outside Multi-Care Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, for an informational picket and rally to call on MultiCare management to listen to frontline caregivers and put patients over profits. (DAN PELLE/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW)
Healthcare workers gather and pass out cow bells and clappers, outside Multi-Care Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, for an informational picket and rally to call on MultiCare management to listen to frontline caregivers and put patients over profits. (DAN PELLE/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW)
Zach Arnold, a nurses aid, uses a bullhorn to get his message to the healthcare workers gathered outside Multi-Care Deaconess Hospital, Wednesday, May 19, 2021 in Spokane for an informational picket and rally to call on MultiCare management to listen to frontline caregivers and put patients over profits. (DAN PELLE/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW)
Healthcare workers gather outside Multi-Care Deaconess Hospital, Wednesday, May 19, 2021 in Spokane for an informational picket and rally to call on MultiCare management to listen to frontline caregivers and put patients over profits. (DAN PELLE/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW)
Health care workers gather Wednesday outside MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane for an informational picket and rally to call on MultiCare management to listen to frontline caregivers. (DAN PELLE/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW)
Spokane MultiCare hospital workers picket amid stalling contract negotiations.