On Oct. 27, 2021, your contract negotiation team met with hospital management for our fifth contract negotiation session. The team was again disappointed with the lack of movement from the hospital on issues of importance to the nurses. Management has held on its 2% a year wage proposal. That said, they stated that they would have a comprehensive wage proposal for your bargaining team soon. Additionally, management:

• Continues to demand that the acute care float pool be dismantled
• Continues to demand that RNs face possible discipline if they don’t report to work within 45 minutes of being called back
• Hasn’t addressed our incentive pay proposal
• Hasn’t adequately addressed our concerns with staffing and floating
• Moved our way on parity for the Clinics but we still have far to go
• Took some takeaways off the table

Please sign our petition and share with your friends, family and commu­nity members. Post it to social media and distribute far and wide. We need to let hospital manage­ment know that the commu­nity stands with their nurses! Members of the negoti­a­tion team have access to physical copies if you prefer to physi­cally sign.

We meet next with management on Nov. 16.

Please display the negotiation car signs in your car window while at work. Also, please remember to wear your WSNA badge holders, stickers and buttons to show your support for a fair contract!

Contact membership@wsna.org if you are not getting postcards and emails from WSNA. Also, please remember to check your junk mail.

In Solidarity,
your negotiating team: Karla Fowler, Local Unit Chair – ICU; Sarah Rice, Member at Large – Cath Lab; Mike Rogen, Member at Large – ER; Jennifer Buckhalter, Grievance Officer – Oncology; Elena Brent – Clinics; Christine Mitchell – Float Pool; Leslie Royce – Labor and Delivery; Elizabeth Brassfield – Medical; Kathy Arnesen – Surgical; Laura Jensen – OR; Annie Johnson – Pre Op

Please contact Travis Elmore, 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!