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Help move nursing forward. Applications due by Aug. 10.
2025 session recap: New laws supporting nurse safety and worker rights
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.
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PeaceHealth nurses in Bellingham to vote on new tentative agreement May 22-23
Bargaining team members tell nurses to vote yes!
By Bobbi Nodell, Marketing and Communications Manager
More than a thousand show up for WSNA picket at St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham on April 29
To everyone who came through, thank you for standing with nurses and your community.
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WSNA nurses supporting striking coworkers at PeaceHealth in Bellingham
Nurses are not on strike, but will hold info picket Thursday in solidarity.
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PeaceHealth Southwest settles unfair labor practice charge for calling police on members
WSNA argued that the employer’s conduct unlawfully intimidated workers and interfered with their protected rights.
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Nurses at PeaceHealth St. Joseph in Bellingham to picket April 29
The biggest issues are over health benefits, subpar wages, and a lack of respect.
Amid ongoing attacks on healthcare, Washington nurses gather to build power
The 2025 Washington State Nurses Convention April 30-May 2 offers nurses a chance to unite, strategize, and shape the future of our profession.
WSNA Biennial Report: We are now stronger than ever
Ten standout moments show how Washington nurses expanded power, safety, and equity over two transformative years.
MultiCare Good Samaritan nurses need a break — literally
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.
By Bobbi Nodell, Marketing and Communications Manager
WSNA members join National Day of Action protesting cuts in education, Medicaid
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.
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WSNA’s unfair labor practice charge against PeaceHealth will get a hearing
“It’s important to WSNA that workers aren’t discouraged from exercising their protected rights because of unlawful threats or intimidation.”
Congratulations Oregon Nurses Association! You won a great victory.
Providence nurses ratified new contracts Feb. 24, ending more than six weeks of strikes.
‘We finally feel seen:' International nurses gain parity
Nurses with international experience get equal pay at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma.
By Bobbi Nodell, Marketing and Communications Manager
Top ten highlights of the St. Joseph Medical Center contract
The contract had many important firsts and a huge win for justice.
WSNA in solidarity with historic strike by Oregon nurses
The strike came after more than a year of negotiations failed to produce an agreement over staffing levels, pay and benefits.
Nurses at 3 Seattle hospitals team up for negotiations
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.
By Linda Burbank, JD, BSN, RN, Nurse Representative
Support Oregon nurses’ strike
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.
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Big win for nurses at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma
The nurses voted overwhelmingly in favor of the contract in a historic turnout.
St. Joseph Medical Center nurses seek better staffing, safety
After 10 bargaining sessions, nurses held informational picket Nov. 1.
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Nurses at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma picket Nov. 1 for better conditions
Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement
Highlights from the Washington State Labor Council Constitutional Convention
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
Op-ed: ‘Affiliating with AFT is one of the best decisions WSNA ever made’
AFT builds nurses’ power and brings us together with other professionals
By David Keepnews, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN
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Sacred Heart healthcare workers holding rally for accountability Sept. 5 in Spokane
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.
