WSNA wishes all of you a happy Labor Day Weekend, acknowledging that many of you will be working and caring for the community this holiday weekend. Over the years, nurses have spent countless hours negotiating, pushing management, holding rallies, events, committees, and late-night meetings to get all the benefits you rightly deserve in this contract:

Compare your current contract to this WSNA contract between WSNA and the General Staff Section of the Seattle Hospital Council, effective June 1st, 1944:

This weekend, please consider how you have benefited from the labor movement and the nurses and other workers who worked hard for what you have today. The future improvements, and even the fight to keep what you now have, will come from the efforts of all of you today moving forward.

The union here at St. John is in need of a nurse to represent our union at the local labor council meetings here in Longview. The volunteer obligation is approximately 3 hours a month. No experience is necessary! If you are interested in helping, please contact a WSNA officer or the WSNA Rep!

Finally, we stand in solidarity with our fellow workers and their ongoing fight for fair working conditions. Please consider joining us at the 2025 Labor Day Picnic on Monday, 9/1, with the Cowlitz Wahkiakum and Southwest Washington Labor Councils. 10:30-3:30 PM at Haydu Park at 253 Kalama River Rd, Kalama, WA.

For those of you caring for patients this weekend, thank you for what you do, and enjoy that Holiday Pay labor brought to you! Questions? Contact one of your officers or WSNA Nurse Representative Travis Elmore Nelson at telmore@wsna.org.