Today at our Hospital Staffing Committee, our Union took action. WSNA and SEIU Union representatives fired staffing committee members from their role on the committee until further notice. 

MultiCare continues to ignore and redirect our concerns about staffing, shuttling us between Unit Based Staffing Committees and Hospital Staffing Committee while refusing to engage in productive staffing discussions at negotiations. Our participation in staffing committee condones this behavior and allows MultiCare to do the bare minimum in complying with state law. 

Our Hospital Staffing Committee is meant to be a vehicle for management to hear nurse and healthcare workers’ concerns and collaborate on staffing plans to address those concerns. Instead, management has been using it to check off their legal obligations by doing the bare minimum and ignoring our concerns at the bargaining table. 

We remain willing to meet and discuss our proposed changes to staffing in the Hospital at the bargaining table. 

Read the letter from staffing committee members to MultiCare management here.

Our Advisory Vote is Tomorrow! 

On Friday 7/24, we’ll be holding an online advisory vote to show MultiCare that we will not accept their last contract offer – and will not accept any offer that takes away our additional staffing resources as a contract right. 

MultiCare has continually attempted to dissolve our Additional Staffing Resources MOU that we won in our 2023 contract after 94% of nurses voted to strike over staffing and break relief issues. This victory was hard-won, and we’re not interested in giving it up or weakening it in any way. 

We are recommending everyone to vote NO in the advisory vote to show MultiCare that nurses at Good Sam won’t ratify a contract that takes away our contractual right to free flex and charge nurses on our floors. This is not an official vote but is our way of standing up to these continued takeaways MultiCare thinks it can get away with. 

The vote will be virtual and will open at 0600 on 7/24 at the link below. The vote will be open until 2000. Remind your friends and coworkers to vote so we can show MultiCare our unity in demanding safe staffing and a fair contract. 

Vote Here - Vote opens at 0600 tomorrow! 

Next Negotiations Date is 7/27 at MultiCare University: Come Observe! 

Our next bargaining date is July 27 at MultiCare University. Observers are welcome from 12-4PM – lunch will be provided! If you’d like to observe or have questions, reach out to WSNA Organizer Grace at glamonte@wsna.org /206-553-9794.

Sip and Chat Tonight at 8 PM! 

Join our union update meeting tonight at 8 to get caught up on negotiations, ask questions, and talk about what’s happening on your unit. 

Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/26694933970741?p=dz8Mt6lvRjzvkEUKMS
Meeting ID: 266 949 339 707 41
Passcode: JD2g786y
Dial in by phone
+1 206-485-2614,,440787939# United States, Seattle
(888) 313-0615,,440787939# United States (Toll-free)
Phone conference ID: 440 787 939#

New Targeted Ad Campaign

Starting this week, we are starting a robust digital ad campaign in which targeted digital ads will flood the devices of patients, their families, and workers at the hospital. Anyone using YouTube and social media may see our messages. If you have ideas for ads or messages for social media, let us know!

Upcoming Meeting with Pierce County Executive Ryan Mello

Next week, WSNA members will meet with Pierce County Executive Ryan Mello. We plan to give Mr. Mello an update on working conditions at the hospital along with the current status of our bargaining. It's time that leaders in our community learn the truth about what really is happening at our hospital. As we know, things are not at all like MultiCare portrays. 

Stay in the Loop: Follow us on Instagram, Join the Facebook Group, or get on our new Signal Chat! 

For behind the scenes bargaining content, MultiCare memes, and Blue Friday photos, follow our Instagram @gsh_wsna.  Follow our Instagram here. For discussion and questions in a private members-only space, join our Facebook group! Ask an officer or coworker to add you.

If you’re not on social media but still want to stay in the loop and join conversations on bargaining, download the app Signal and join our private discussion group here. 

Paint GSH Blue (and Purple!)

Your WSNA Bargaining Team is requesting that EVERY NURSE wear their WSNA T-Shirt at work (especially on Fridays and bargaining days)! Grab one of the joint stickers and take a picture with our SEIU colleagues who are also fighting for a fair contract! 

Contact membership@wsna.org if you are not getting emails from WSNA. Also, please remember to check your junk mail! You can update your contact information on our WSNA website here: https://www.wsna.org/membership/update-info.

In Solidarity, your WSNA Bargaining Team:

Co-Chair Savanah James, PCU; Treasurer Aaron Bradley, Palliative Care; Secretary Mindy Groven, PACU; Grievance Officer Emalie Hobi, ED; Jordan Goakey, Family Birth; Nicole Mandeville, ICU; Jennifer Hudson, ED; Jacqueline Dynes, ICU.

Please contact Travis Elmore Nelson, WSNA Nurse Rep, at telmore@WSNA.org or 206-575-7979 ext. 3117 with questions or to find out what you can do to get a fair contract!

Want to get more involved in our union or join our contract action team? Reach ut to WSNA Organizer Grace at 206-553-9794 or glamonte@wsna.org.