May 29, 2025
May 22, 2025
Washington’s 2025 session ended with new laws to protect nurses from workplace violence and support striking workers, plus a state budget that boosts health and education funding.
Bargaining team members tell nurses to vote yes!
May 19, 2025
To everyone who came through, thank you for standing with nurses and your community.
May 13, 2025
Nurses are not on strike, but will hold info picket Thursday in solidarity.
WSNA argued that the employer’s conduct unlawfully intimidated workers and interfered with their protected rights.
April 16, 2025
The biggest issues are over health benefits, subpar wages, and a lack of respect.
April 15, 2025
The 2025 Washington State Nurses Convention April 30-May 2 offers nurses a chance to unite, strategize, and shape the future of our profession.
April 14, 2025
Ten standout moments show how Washington nurses expanded power, safety, and equity over two transformative years.
For many nurses at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital, the hospital cannot be trusted to follow its stated core values of respect, integrity, stewardship, excellence, collaboration, kindness, and joy.
March 14, 2025
Participants nationwide called on lawmakers to take a stand against cuts to the Department of Education and Medicaid outlined in the House’s budget resolution.
March 5, 2025
“It’s important to WSNA that workers aren’t discouraged from exercising their protected rights because of unlawful threats or intimidation.”
Providence nurses ratified new contracts Feb. 24, ending more than six weeks of strikes.
February 26, 2025
Nurses with international experience get equal pay at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma.
February 11, 2025
The contract had many important firsts and a huge win for justice.
January 16, 2025
The strike came after more than a year of negotiations failed to produce an agreement over staffing levels, pay and benefits.
January 15, 2025
Nearly 200 people came together in solidarity to take on the issues facing nurses at UW Medicine Montlake, UW Medicine Northwest, and Seattle Children’s Hospital.
The primary issues are Providence’s unfair labor practices, dangerously understaffed hospitals, the ability to spend more time with patients, employee healthcare, and competitive wages and benefits.
January 6, 2025
The nurses voted overwhelmingly in favor of the contract in a historic turnout.
December 17, 2024
After 10 bargaining sessions, nurses held informational picket Nov. 1.
November 12, 2024
Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement
October 31, 2024
Among the resolutions passed were two introduced by WSNA: one calling for tighter scrutiny and restrictions on healthcare consolidation, and one advocating for strengthened efforts to prevent workplace violence in healthcare
October 14, 2024
Members debate Code of Ethics and vote down a presidential endorsement
AFT builds nurses’ power and brings us together with other professionals
Providence is closing inpatient psychiatric unit for adolescents Sept. 7. Providence’s closure of the unit leaves Eastern Washington with little care and didn’t need to happen, nurses and techs/service and maintenance workers say.
August 28, 2024
