We have a big week next week! We will be going back to the table on Tuesday, December 16, and Thursday, December 18. We hope you can join us as observers, and if you’re working, show solidarity with your bargaining team by wearing your WSNA t-shirts and stickering up with WSNA stickers!

Join Us

Session 3 - Tuesday 12/16 - We will be in HEC classrooms 3 and 4. Your bargaining team will focus on Accountability, enforcing the rules we already established.

Session 4 - Thursday 12/18 - We will be in the HEC Auditorium. Your bargaining team will focus on Respect, and we will be bringing proposals on economics to the employer. If you want to see our wage proposal, this is an important session to attend.

Toy Drive! Speaking of respect, WSNA has mad respect for the Emergency Department, and their efforts raise donations of toys for children in the community. To support that effort, we will be accepting toys or donations for their drive at the Auditorium on 12/18!

If you RSVP, it is very helpful so we can plan for how many observers we will have, but if you have a last-minute opportunity to join us, please do.

RSVP to join us!

If you are working and cannot join us, make sure to at least wear a WSNA sticker to support the team and, ideally, wear your WSNA blue T-shirt. We will have shirts at bargaining if you’d like to pick one up.

Know Your Rights: Union Gear at Work

Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), you have the federally protected right to wear union buttons, stickers, and T-shirts at work to show support for your union.

What to do if a manager orders you to remove a sticker, button, or change your shirt:

1. Ask the "Magic Question" Calmly ask the manager: "If I refuse to comply with this order, will it lead to corrective action or discipline?"

2. If the answer is "No": You may politely decline to remove the item.

3. If the answer is "Yes" (or if they immediately threaten discipline): COMPLY NOW, GRIEVE LATER.

• Remove the item or change. Do not be insubordinate.
• Document everything immediately: Write down exactly what was said, the time, the location where the conversation happened, and who else was present.
• Contact a Union Rep: Send us your notes. We will investigate whether we need to file a grievance and an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charge against the hospital for violating your rights. Contact an officer below or Nurse Representative Bret Percival at BPercival@wsna.org.

Home and Community Nurses - Focused Event Survey

We can’t stress enough how important it is for the entire bargaining unit to interact with one another and stand in solidarity. We do, however, want to offer focused meetings specifically for nurses spread across Home Health, Home Hospice, and the Hospice Houses. Specific meetings for each group. With everyone spread out, we hope to get some insights into how best to meet, looking at dates, times, locations, and agenda items.

In these meetings, we want to hear from you about how you are doing and discuss the problems specific to your work and how we can work together to improve things. We will, of course, also talk about bargaining, as well as other ways we can make changes, including conference committee and filling out ADOs to document the problems you are facing.

Home and Community Nurse Breakout Sessions - Interest Survey – Fill out form

The Holiday Party and Local Unit Meeting was a blast!

Thank you to all who came out to the WSNA Holiday Party in the HEC Auditorium last week. We had rows of 8-foot sub sandwiches that you all did your best to get through. We spread the love by delivering sandwiches around the hospital afterward. It was great to hear from all of you and to get updates on the local unit and bargaining. Stay tuned for more meetings and events coming up over the next few months!

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In solidarity,

WSNA PeaceHealth Southwest Officers,
Dawn Marick, Co-Chair
Jacob Clark, Co-Chair
Duncan Camacho, Secretary/Treasurer
Sarah Collins,  Grievance Officer
Talitha Wilson, Member-at-large
Toutu Rekucki, Member-at-Large
Didi Gray, Member-at-Large
Jeryl Anderson, Membership Officer
Samantha Golden, Membership Officer

Questions? Contact your WSNA Nurse Representative, Bret Percival, at 206-471-0876 or bpercival@wsna.org.