Meeting

Plan on attending a LOCAL UNIT MEETING on August 5, 2010 at 4:30pm.  Room to be announced.

WSNA needs to hear from the Bargaining Unit.
Has the census increased?
Are you being scheduled to your full FTE?
Has there been any word from Administration regarding the Medicare reimbursement issue?

Don't forget  — August 5 at 4:30!

See you then!
Bring your issues and concerns.

 

 

News

February 13, 2008

Your Negotiating Team has had three sessions with Managment. We have presented our proposal and the hospital has responded to some of them. We are working on your wages and working conditions. Stay tuned for more information as we continue the process. Our next meeting is on the 29th of February.

Please be aware that only dues paying members are eligible to vote. So now is the time for you to start supporting one another in your workplace. United you can make a difference in the way patient care is delivered at Skyline as well as the way you are treated.

 

December 21, 2007

Dear Bargaining Unit Members,

As the year 2007 draws to a close and we are looking at the New Year to come, 2008, your Negotiating Team had some conversation about membership being a requirement to be employed at Skyline.  There was really an in-depth discussion as to the rights or wrongs of requiring nurses to belong to Washington State Nurses Association.  Everyone knows that WSNA is the professional organization for Nurses in Washington State.  WSNA is also your collective bargaining agent.

The concern over the cost was brought up by one of the team members.  That brings me to a point that one of the other members brought up, “Why should some nurses pay and others get the full benefit from our dues without paying a dime.”   That is like going to a potluck and not bringing a dish.  The dues are predicated on the amount of time you work each month.  Unlike other Unions there is no Initiation Fee. 

If all of the nurses at Skyline were to become dues paying members of the Bargaining Unit, do you know how much strength you would have as a unified voice?  If all of you were members, I can assure your management would pay much closer attention to the contract and the rules that are outlined there.  Both parties sat at the negotiating table to work out an agreement that is supposed to be fair and equitable for all of the staff nurses at Skyline.  It doesn’t play favorites or discriminate or intimidate.  It also addresses your yearly salary raises.  Potential members certainly do not refuse the wage increases or the benefits that are bargained for.  If you were all dues paying members, your voice at the bargaining table would carry so much more weight.

Isn’t it time to join your fellow nurses at Skyline?  Being a member of the State-wide organization also makes you a member of the American Nurses Association, the National Association.

Don’t forget, WSNA represents you in the legislature.  We work to improve the health and safety of all of the nurses in Washington State.  We were instrumental in the designing and implementation of the “NO MANDATORY OVERTIME LAW, SAFE NEEDLELESS SYSTEMS, and SAFE LIFTING.”

Currently, we are working on a SAFE STAFFING BILL.  It would require all hospitals to implement a Staffing Committee with Staff Nurses having an equal say in what it takes to staff a unit safely.  Doesn’t it make sense for the people who are doing the work to have input into what is needed to get that work done?

On January 4th, the Negotiating Team would like to invite you to a “POTLUCK” at the hospital to discuss the issues you may be having as well as to answer any questions that you would like to ask but haven’t had the opportunity.

We will start at 11:30am and end at 2:30pm.  Watch for the room to be announced.

Hope to see all of you at the POTLUCK on January 4, 2008.  If you have questions that will not wait, please feel free to call Pat McClure, RN; WSNA Nurse Representative at (206) 575-7979, ext. 3110 or email: pmcclure@wsna.org

Our AGENDA for the meeting will be:

WSNA 101 - “What It Is and What It Does!”