The Confluence Health Campus Incorporation MOU Is Posted!  Here’s How to Read It 

After more than two years of bargaining, WSNA has reached a tentative agreement (TA) on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would incorporate Mares campus nurses into the existing Confluence Health bargaining unit. Now it’s up to nurses across Confluence to read that MOU and vote on whether to approve the MOU and make history for nurses in the Wenatchee Valley.

As we said in our previous newsletter, it’s important that every nurse knows what this MOU would mean for them. Click the redline link below to see it for yourself, and click the redline explainer link for important reminders, tips, and tricks for reading the MOU so you can figure out how it impacts you.

Important Reminder: Before Reading the MOU, Check out Central’s Contract! 

The contract Central’s nurses have built over the years is strong; time-tested; and loaded with benefits, practices, and protections that have helped nurses build a life in Wenatchee for more than fifty years.

The most important thing to know about this MOU is that it formally adds nurses at the Mares campus to the existing Confluence Health bargaining unit. That means they’ll work under the contract that has covered Central’s nurses for decades, as well as recently added home infusion and oncology/infusion nurses and nurse navigators in Omak, Moses Lake, and at Mares.

Many Mares nurses have never worked under a union contract before. (If this sounds like you and you have questions about what it means for you, email your bargaining team members and your WSNA nurse rep, Laurie Robinson, or visit us on-site during the vote to get answers!) Others have more experience, so they know a strong union contract can make a huge difference in workers’ lives. That’s the kind of contract they can expect if nurses vote to ratify this MOU. Click the link below to check it out.

What else is in the MOU?

The MOU nurses will vote on next week has a few main components. Click the link below for an explainer that will walk you through each section, what it means, and how it fits into the larger contract.

If you have questions, please contact:

Laurie Robinson, RN, Nurse Representative
lrobinson@wsna.org