In these scary times, we are so grateful to you, our members, and all of the work that you are doing on the front lines. We continue to hear from many of you about serious concerns at PeaceHealth Southwest, including:

• Low census as units shut down or reduce hours

• Hazard Pay

• Redeployment or floating of nurses into other different clinical areas

• Access to paid leave if a nurse is unable to work for reasons related to COVID-19

WSNA has been working in collaboration to address all of these concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are in the process of negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding with the hospital to address these concerns.

Labor & Industries, the Division of Safety and Occupational Health has been conducting interviews with frontline staff about safety concerns. The investigation is continuing. If you want to participate or have important information to share, please email mkieval@wsna.org . If you decide you want to be part of the interviewing process, you may request confidentiality.

Please continue to share your concerns with WSNA. If you haven’t already please take a moment to fill out the COVID-19 Healthy Workplace Survey, and sign our petition and encourage everyone you know to sign it too. The more people that sign the petition the more pressure it puts on employers to do the right thing for the dedicated nurses they employ.

Nurse Representative

mkieval@wsna.org

206-575-7979, Ext. 3051