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Nurses are not on strike, but will hold info picket Thursday in solidarity.
May 13, 2025 • 1 minute to read
WSNA argued that the employer’s conduct unlawfully intimidated workers and interfered with their protected rights.
April 16, 2025 • 4 minutes to read
The biggest issues are over health benefits, subpar wages, and a lack of respect.
April 15, 2025 • 3 minutes to read
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 • 2 minutes to read
Ten standout moments show how Washington nurses expanded power, safety, and equity over two transformative years.
April 14, 2025 • 4 minutes to read
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 • 3 minutes to read
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 • 2 minutes to read
“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 • 1 minute to read
Nurses with international experience get equal pay at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma.
February 11, 2025 • 7 minutes to read
The contract had many important firsts and a huge win for justice.
January 16, 2025 • 4 minutes to read
The strike came after more than a year of negotiations failed to produce an agreement over staffing levels, pay and benefits.
January 15, 2025 • 2 minutes to read
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 • 1 minute to read
The nurses voted overwhelmingly in favor of the contract in a historic turnout.
December 17, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
After 10 bargaining sessions, nurses held informational picket Nov. 1.
November 12, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement
October 31, 2024 • 3 minutes to read
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 • 1 minute to read
AFT builds nurses’ power and brings us together with other professionals
October 14, 2024 • 4 minutes to read
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 • 2 minutes to read
Nurses want hospital to invest in employee nurses, not expensive travel nurses
August 7, 2024 • 2 minutes to read
WSNA Executive Director David Keepnews has been elected as a vice-president of AFT.
July 25, 2024 • 1 minute to read
After 5 months of contract negotiations, the nurses at Skagit Valley Hospital spoke at the Board of Commissioners meeting and delivered a letter demanding fair and equitable pay.
July 11, 2024 • 3 minutes to read
They will be collecting signatures for hospital to recognize Juneteenth and to preserve nurse-centered Racial Justice Task Force
June 17, 2024 • 4 minutes to read
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