Carina Price
ICU
Carina Price
ICU
Jessica Lenczycki
FBC
Shannon Suchland
Walters Day Surgery
Matthew McGuire
ED
Kathleen (Kat) Jabasa
Main OR
Yunna Flenord
ICU
Teresa Kindell
2 Sount
Kaitlin (Kate) Frazier
7th Floor Break RN
Posted Jul 18, 2025
You may remember the 2022 Kronos cyberattack that left health systems across the country scrambling to manually track employee hours. As a result, some nurses at St. Joe’s were overpaid. For the past three years, WSNA has explored every possible path to resolve this without placing financial burden on nurses. Unfortunately, the employer is now moving forward with collecting those overpayments.
If you received an overpayment, you should have been contacted via email with repayment instructions, including options for a payment plan. If you have questions about your specific situation, please speak directly with your manager. For broader concerns—or if you believe the repayment amount is inaccurate—contact your WSNA nurse representative.
Calling all med-surg nurses! We want to hear from you. Join us on Tuesday, July 23 at 1730 for a virtual townhall meeting. This is your opportunity to share what's working, what’s not, and how we can help improve conditions on your unit. Bring your ideas—and bring a coworker. You can join by following this link.
Thanks to strong contract language won at the bargaining table, we secured key improvements for nurses who take call— including incentives for open shifts, clearer definitions of mandatory call, and more equitable distribution across units. But we know every unit is different.
That’s why we negotiated an MOU to form a Call Committee—a collaborative group that will allow units to tailor call scheduling practices to fit their unique needs. The committee will consist of six RNs from call-eligible units and the WSNA nurse representative.
If you take call and are interested in joining the committee, reach out to your nurse rep or a local unit officer. You can read the full MOU by visiting the St. Joe’s WSNA page.
The Hospital Staffing Committee met on Monday, July 14 and reviewed proposed staffing plans for med-surg, ICU, wound care, critical care, and more. Plans for med-surg, ICU, and wound care were not approved.
The primary concern? Break buddies. We cannot approve plans that rely on break buddy coverage unless it’s clearly stated and justified in the plan. As HSC members, we have a legal and contractual duty to ensure every staffing plan has a clear path to compliance with Washington state law. If a plan cannot meet that standard, we will not approve it—and when we report noncompliance to the state, we will explain exactly why.
Stay tuned for more HSC updates and how you can get involved in staffing advocacy.
WSNA Nurse Representative Jared Richardson will be transitioning to represent nurses at Tacoma General as they prepare for upcoming negotiations. Jared will continue supporting the St. Joe’s Hospital Staffing Committee through the current review cycle to ensure continuity.
We are excited to welcome Janet Stewart as our new nurse rep at St. Joe’s. Janet worked in the ICU at St. Joe’s for 24 years and served as both a local unit officer and bargaining team member. Over the last 4 years she has represented the nurses at Good Samaritan hospital including through the groundbreaking negotiation campaign of 2022. She brings deep experience and a strong commitment to nurse advocacy, and we know she will continue the fight for safer working conditions and fair treatment for every nurse at St. Joe’s.
You can reach Janet at JStewart@WSNA.org.
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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.
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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