After 16 long and hard-fought hours at the bargaining table on January 29, 2026, your bargaining team reached a tentative agreement with MultiCare management on a new contract. We are proud of this agreement and unanimously recommend a YES vote.

This was a long and emotional contract fight. It required unity, persistence, and nurses showing up for one another again and again. What we secured at the table reflects the strength of our solidarity and the power of standing together as a union. This agreement moves us forward and lays the groundwork for what comes next.

Below are some of the highlights we are especially proud of. Full tentative agreement details are linked at the bottom of this message.

Key Tentative Agreement Highlights

• Wage increases averaging 15.46 percent over three years, not including step increases
• Preservation and expansion of nurse-to-patient ratios, including new ratios for OBED
• Stronger staffing protections, including trauma response protections, limits on break buddies, and assignment protections for resource nurses
• Improved floating language, including recognition of 2M (Transitional Observation) as a service line
• Increase to night shift differential to $5.75, tying the highest in the state, along with increases to preceptor, charge, STAT, and resource RN premiums
• Addition of six new lactation spaces for lactating nurses at work
• Full credit for international nursing experience and LPN experience to include all hospital experience
• A new standard for call shifts, including an additional dollar per hour for standby time over forty hours, caps on mandatory call, and incentives for open call shifts up to ten dollars per hour
• Ending pyramiding of incentive pay by ensuring incentives are offered as a flat dollar amount rather than time and a half
• Protection for PG1s so they cannot be used for further discipline after one year

While we did not achieve every goal this round, every contract builds the next one. One issue we want to address directly is the use of CANMs. We were unable to reach contractual agreement on CANMs serving as charge nurses. However, we did secure an agreement that MultiCare will work with WSNA on an expedited arbitration of our grievance on this issue. This grievance will proceed directly to arbitration, with both sides committed to moving it forward as quickly as possible.

Read the Full Tentative Agreement Highlights

Voting Information

An all-electronic ratification vote will be held on February 6, 2026, from 0600 to 1600. Ballots will be emailed to your personal email address. You must be a member in good standing to vote.

Please make sure your contact information is up to date with WSNA. You can update your email address or other information at the link below:
 https://www.wsna.org/membership/update-info.

Want to Learn More?

Join us for a celebratory edition of Spill the Tea on February 3, 2026, at 2000. We will walk through the agreement, discuss how we got here, and answer your questions.

This tentative agreement is the result of nurses standing shoulder to shoulder, showing up, and refusing to back down. Thank you for your strength, your trust, and your solidarity.

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We are so proud of the work that went into getting this TA, and we wholeheartedly endorse a YES vote. Thank you to all the nurses who stood shoulder to shoulder with us for this fight.

In Solidarity,

Therese Juntunen, NTICU
Michelle Stevenson, 5/6 MSICU/PCU
Sarah Huber, Emergency Department
Christina Nicholson, Resource RN
George Murray, NTICU
Marc Jebousek, Emergency Department
Anna Vermaire, Pulse Cardiac Short Stay
Anna Glorioso-Kaufmann, Operating Room
Jaime Cary, Labor and Delivery
Rachel Ballou-Church, Medical Oncology

Questions? Contact one of your officers, one of your bargaining team members, or Nurse Rep Jared Richardson (jrichardson@wsna.org).