Theresa Blazer
FMC
Posted Feb 7, 2025
February 7, 2025
Thank you to all the 34 RNs who joined us at the bargaining table for our 11th session today—your presence makes a difference!
The employer presented a comprehensive counterproposal with some movement on key issues, and we are close to agreement on some, but they left several of our proposals unanswered. We urged them to return with counter offers rather than trying to unilaterally implement changes in your working conditions. Here are the latest updates:
IMPORTANT: We need you to attend the next Evergreen Board of Commissioners meeting – Tuesday, 2/18 at 5:45 PM: meet in the lobby of Tan building, just outside the TAN 250 Board Room. We need you to show up. We know life is busy, and many people live far away. Please find a way. It’s important for you and your families to attend! We had good attendance last time, numbers will show how important this is for you and the best patient care for the community.
Social media: Keep an eye on social media for updates. If you have something to say and are willing to make a quick video clip we want to hear from you!
Follow up on Instagram, Facebook, or our web page
https://www.instagram.com/wsna_evergreen/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/evergreenrns
https://www.wsna.org/union/evergreen-healthcare
Your membership in WSNA builds power and shows you are actively supporting your union and are behind what we are all trying to accomplish.
We cannot slow down! We all need all WSNA nurses to join in and stand up to remind Evergreen that high-quality patient care relies on high-quality nurses. Your participation makes the difference. Together, we are powerful. Together, we will win.
Wear your WSNA shirt to work on Wednesday! If you still don't have a shirt, contact unit reps, CAT members, and local unit officers. Better yet, ask your coworkers what sizes they need and help us get shirts to them!
IMPORTANT – if you are told not to wear your T-shirt at work, ask if it would lead to discipline if you don’t change into a scrub top. If you are told it would lead to discipline, change into a scrub top, but write down who said that, where you were, and when it happened. If you see anyone wearing anything but scrub tops in clinical areas, note when and who it was. If, for example, your department had custom t-shirts made and they are worn to work in clinical areas, and you are not allowed to wear a WSNA shirt, take note of it and contact Bret Percival at BPercival@wsna.org or send a brief text to 206-471-0876. (Email is preferred for documentation and tracking.)
In solidarity,
Your Bargaining Team
Theresa Blazer, Holly Baker, Alicia O’Neal, Nikki Paulson, Sandy Gott, Ryan O’Neill Hawkins, Carol Flaming, Jaclyn Miller, Karen Lasota, Lexi Overa
Questions? Contact your WSNA Officers at localofficers@eh-nurses.com.
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WSNA's 2025 Convention, Forward Together, will address the most pressing issues facing nurses today: safe staffing, workplace violence prevention, and health equity.
If you find yourself in a situation that you believe creates unsafe conditions for patients or for you, you should complete a Staffing Complaint / ADO Form as soon as possible.
By completing the form, you will help make the problem known to management, creating an opportunity for the problem to be addressed. Additionally, you will be documenting the facts, which may be helpful to you later if there is a negative outcome.
WSNA also uses your ADO forms to track the problems occurring in your facility. When you and your coworkers take the important step of filling out an ADO form, you are helping to identify whether there is a pattern of unsafe conditions for you or your patients at your facilities. This information is used by your conference committee, staffing committee, and WSNA labor staff to improve your working conditions.
As a union member, you have the right to have a representative present in any meetings with management that could potentially lead to disciplinary action against you.
If called into a meeting with management, read the following to management when the meeting begins:
If this discussion could in any way lead to my being disciplined or terminated, I respectfully request that my union representative be present at this meeting. Without representation present, I choose not to participate in this discussion.
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