Laura Bayes
4 South - Day Shift
(360) 543-3529
Laura Bayes
4 South - Day Shift
(360) 543-3529
Robin Cully
Patient Care Support - Evening
Jenn Engelhart
Emergency - Day
360-319-5650
Tracy Pullar
PCU - Evening
Rhonda Tull
SSU Out Patient - Day Shift
(360) 319-2912
Amber Pouley
ED - Nights
Jennifer Hampton
Labor and Delivery
Kristin Malmo
Labor Delivery - Day
Errin Hull
Hospice - Days
Darlyce Jerde
PCU
Kelly Carroll
Emergency Department
Posted Feb 5, 2025
This is Tracy Pullar from the bargaining team with an update for the last two days of negotiations. Your bargaining team finished giving our last reserved proposals and presented them to management. This included staffing committee, floating and we tackled insurance. In other words, we have all our cards on the table.
Management came back with holiday requests, their version of the Hospice MOU and discussed our staffing committee proposal yesterday. Today, we finally got management's economic proposal, and it is as awful as we all thought it would be. Eggs are $7.00 a dozen and everything in your life has gone up in price, but management thinks you only deserve a raise of a cumulative 7.7% over the next 3 years (for comparison, our last contract had 13% cumulative over 3 years). They want us to go back to a set shift differential for evenings and nights with no yearly increase. Management wants to get rid of EIB. Very importantly, they want to separate Hospice nurses' pay scale away from the rest of the bargaining unit, which would leave them very vulnerable to have lower wages next time around. If they can do this to Hospice, they could come for your unit next.
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WSNA's 2025 Convention, Forward Together, will address the most pressing issues facing nurses today: safe staffing, workplace violence prevention, and health equity.
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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