Congratulations – New Local Unit Officers 2023-2026

• Chairperson – Jared Richardson
• Co-Chairperson – Raeli Korzeniecki
• Secretary – Mindy Thornton
• Treasurer – Aaron Bradley
• Grievance Officer – Anne Landen
• Grievance Officer – Ashley Eubank

Thank you to those who took the time to mail back your ballots and have a voice in the election. 

Virtual Sip-and-Chat Thursday August 24 at 8 p.m.

Bring your union questions and concerns. We will have updates from our monthly Conference Committee (Labor/Management) meeting and Nurse Staffing Committee meeting.  We’d love to have you join us.

Seniority Dates

Due to the recent conversion of MultiCare’s HRIS system to Workday, it was necessary to convert your seniority from “hours based” to “date based.”

Such date shall be based on compensable hours which are then converted by a formula to a new date. This new “seniority hire date” will be your seniority date going forward. Compensable hours will not longer be a factor.

Seniority shall mean  nurses’ continuous length of service as a registered nurse from most recent date of hire as a Full-Time or Part-Time nurse working in the bargaining unit. Seniority does not apply to nurses currently working as Per Diem. 

For those hired July 2023 or later who are not on the list, your seniority date will be your date of hire. 

Seniority shall not apply to a nurse until completion of the required probationary period. Upon satisfactory completion, the nurse shall be credited with seniority from most recent date of hire.

Comparing Seniority:  Where bargaining unit seniority dates of nurses are the same, the order of the nurses on the seniority list will be determined as follows:

1. A nurse with an earlier date of hire by MHS shall come first on the seniority list.
2. If the seniority date and MHS date of hire are the same, then whichever nurse has the higher FTE will come first on the seniority list.
3. If seniority date and MHS hire dates are equal and the FTE are the same, the nurse with the lowest ranking employee number shall come first on the seniority list.

You have until September 1, 2023 to challenge your new seniority date. Changes will not be made after September 1.

Note: The formula for conversion was using Excel Math to turn a date into a number for the day we stopped collecting compensable hours (July 1, 2023); then divided compensable hours by 1872 to turn it into years worked. These two values were subtracted and turned into date format to give a new seniority date based off of hours worked. 

Keep in mind that time you may have taken off in the past (non-compensable hours) or converting from Per Diem to FT/PT and vice versa affect the formula.

Questions/Concerns, contact one of your local unit officers, whose contact information can be found in the ribbon above  or WSNA Nurse Representative Janet Stewart at jstewart@wsna.org.