In this newsletter you’ll find the following updates

• Contract Bargaining Update
• PTO Donation
• IENA Opportunity
• Union membership

Contract Bargaining

Our union was able to secure dates with the Employer for our WSNA contract. We have secured the following dates for contract bargaining. The team has reviewed the priorities from the bargaining survey and are ready to go! Support our team by wearing your blue WSNA shirts are the following dates.

November 14
November 19
December 9
December 16

PTO Donation

Did you know we have limited funds to support the nurses who serve on the bargaining team? Once our fund is exhausted, nurses often take that time unpaid or try to reschedule shifts so not to lose time. If you would like to donate PTO to the bargaining team nurses, even if it’s 1 hour, that would be a great way to say “Thank You.”  The bargaining team will divide the donated PTO equally.

Download the PTO donation form from our WSNA local unit webpage.  Complete the form and follow the instructions on how to submit it.

IENA Opportunity

Join our regional nurses' association on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, from 5-8p at the Ruby River Hotel. This event is our legislative reception dinner and nurses will receive 1.5 CE. This event is free with dinner, but nurses do need to register for a head count. RSVP here today and save your seat!

Union membership matters!

Membership in our union is crucial because it provides workers with a collective voice. By banding together, we gain strength and leverage to address our important workplace issues and advocate for our rights effectively. Our strength comes from our numbers.

Why should you join WSNA now if you haven’t before? 

Support for unions in America is higher than it has been in decades, with 70 percent of the public viewing unions favorably (Gallup, 2024). Yet at the very moment unions are gaining strength, labor rights are facing historic challenges. Recently, the National Labor Relations Board, the institution created in the 1930s to protect workers’ rights, was declared unconstitutional. Board members have been dismissed without cause, leaving too few to enforce labor law. Federal unions, including those in the VA, have been stripped away by executive action.

These attacks are not about party politics. They are about power, and whether working people will continue to have a voice on the job.

It is the collective effort of workers, our physical and mental contributions, that drives the economy. Without workers, nothing moves forward. Without unions, those workers are left at the mercy of corporate interests.

Because of organized labor, we have the 40-hour workweek, weekends, paid time off, higher wages, safer working conditions, access to healthcare, and the end of child labor. Washington nurses know this firsthand: we have some of the strongest wages and protections in the nation because of union strength. These gains do not only benefit union members but raise standards for all workers.

None of this was freely given. It was won through struggle, and often at great cost. Workers lost their lives in tragedies like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and many faced violence for demanding safe workplaces and fair pay. We encourage you to remember where our labor history comes from and to become a part of that today by signing up for union membership.

Questions? Contact your WSNA Nurse Rep Alle Machorro at 206-707-2048 or amachorro@wsna.org