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Jacob Clark

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Duncan Camacho

(661) 373-7797

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Sarah Collins

(206) 316-6289

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Erin Irwin

(503) 740-8425

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Talitha Wilson

(503) 805-7223

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Toutu Rekucki

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Didi Gray - on temporary leave until September

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Jeryl Anderson

360-409-9331

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Samantha Golden

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Get involved! Union Rep Meetings

Don't forget the union rep meetings occur every first Wednesday of the month from 1800 to 1930 on Teams! Use this link for each month's meeting. For more information, check out the message from 1/29 that is posted in the message archives.

Member at Large away on leave

Local Unit Officer Didi Gray WSNA Member at Large is on maternity leave until September. If officer assistance is needed before she returns to work, please reach out to another for help. Congratulations to Didi on the arrival of her precious newborn!

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3 Days Until Your WSNA Nurses Week Event!

Honoring Our Healthcare Heroes!

Join us as we celebrate Nurses Week and recognize the incredible dedication, compassion, and hard work of our amazing WSNA nurses!

🗓 Date: May 9, 2025
🕒 Time: 1700 to 2100
📍 Location: Auditorium

🎉 Enjoy:

Food, treats & giveaways

Raffle prizes

And much more!

First 100 nurses to attend will receive a special gift from the officers

Let’s come together to show our appreciation and celebrate the heartbeat of healthcare—our nurses!

💙 Thank you for making a difference every day!


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PeaceHealth Southwest settles unfair labor practice charge for calling police on members

WSNA argued that the employer’s conduct unlawfully intimidated workers and interfered with their protected rights.

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center settled an unfair labor practice filed by the Washington State Nurses Association after the hospital called police to report the union’s representative and an off-duty nurse as trespassers in October 2023.

WSNA argued that the employer’s conduct unlawfully intimidated workers and interfered with their protected rights. The union also argued that PeaceHealth Southwest violated the law when it unilaterally limited access to the property for off-duty nurses and their union representatives and threatened a union member who accessed the while she was off the clock, telling her “things will not go well” for her if she didn’t leave the premises.

Region 19 of the National Labor Relations Board found merit to those charges and approved a settlement agreement in March 2025.

As part of the settlement, PeaceHealth must post a notice on employee bulletin boards making specific commitments to follow federal labor law. They must also post the notice on the hospital’s intranet site for 60 days and send it by email to all employees.

The notice, listed below, includes language telling employees that the hospital cannot intimidate them or threaten them.

“Calling the police to report a union rep and an employee doesn’t just violate the law; it also needlessly escalates a non-emergent situation, potentially endangering them and everyone around them,” said Kelly Skahan, a lawyer for WSNA. “WSNA is relieved this incident ended peacefully and that the hospital is being held accountable for intimidating workers and making them fear for their safety.”

The incident occurred during a significant labor strike. More than 1,300 healthcare workers represented by the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals went on a strike that lasted from October 23 to Oct. 27, 2023.

PeaceHealth is a nonprofit Catholic health system that operates 10 hospitals and approximately 167 clinic locations across Washington, Oregon, and Alaska.

Region 19 of the National Labor Relations Board also found merit to a separate charge WSNA filed during OFNHP’s strike after PeaceHealth announced that it would discontinue its contributions to striking employees' health insurance premiums, effectively ending their coverage, if the work stoppage extended into November.  PeaceHealth did not settle that charge, and a hearing is scheduled for Nov. 12.

The following notice posted at the hospital makes six specific commitments to follow the law, each of which corresponds with a charge filed in WSNA’s unfair labor practice case.

THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO: 

  • Form, join, or assist a union;
  • Choose a representative to bargain with us on your behalf;
  • Act together with other employees for your benefit and protection;
  • Choose not to engage in any of these protected activities.

WE WILL NOT interfere with, restrain, or coerce you in the exercise of the above rights.

Washington State Nurses Association is the representative of our employees in the following unit for dealing with us regarding wages, hours, and other working conditions (“Unit”):

All regular full-time, part-time, per diem, and relief registered nurses, including home care, hospice, wound care and pain clinic registered nurses, employed by the Medical Center at the following Vancouver, Washington facilities: Medical Center campus currently located at 400 N.E. Mother Joseph Place, Memorial campus currently located at 3400 Main Street, Memorial Health Care Center currently located at 100 East 33rd Street, Administration Building currently located at 602 N.E. 92nd Avenue, HomeCare/Hospice currently located at 5400 MacArthur Blvd, Pain and Cardiology Clinics currently located at 2312 NE 129th St and Ray Hickey Hospice House currently located at 2112 East Mill Plain Boulevard; but excluding CRNAs, coordinator CRNAs, QM Coordinators, lead employee health nurses, employee health nurses, clinical educators, all other employees, guards, and supervisors as defined in the Act.

WE WILL NOT unlawfully threaten to call the police to remove you or Union representatives from the hospital when you have permitted access to the hospital.

WE WILL NOT threaten that it will not go well for you if you do not leave, when you lawfully come to the facility where you work, whether on or off duty, to lawfully engage in protected concerted or Union activity.

WE WILL NOT unlawfully tell you that you will be allowed to enter the facility where you work to post on Union bulletin boards only if you are on duty and only if you are escorted by management.

WE WILL NOT unlawfully call the police to remove your Union representative from facilities where you work.

WE WILL NOT change your working conditions by barring off-duty employees from entering the facility to engage in Union activity, without first providing your Union with notice and an opportunity to bargain. “

WE WILL NOT in any like or related manner interfere with your rights under Section 7 of the Act.


Questions? Contact one of your officers or WSNA Nurse Representative Jaclyn Smedley, jsmedley@wsna.org.

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Resources and tools

Document unsafe conditions

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.

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Representation rights

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.

Find out more about this crucial right and how to exercise it to ensure your fair treatment and protection.

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Enhance your professional competency with WSNA's free online courses.

Earn CNE contact hours through topics like Cultural Humility, Telehealth Assessment, Workplace Violence Prevention, and more. Convenient and self-paced, our courses provide practical knowledge for your daily work. Expand your skills and stay up-to-date with the latest nursing practices.

Visit cne.wsna.org