LMCC Meeting July 28 from 2-3 p.m.

WSNA has scheduled a LMCC Meeting between WSNA Nurses and WA Veterans Home Leadership.

The LMCC (Labor Management Communication Committee) is a quarterly meeting where we discuss issues nurses are facing in the facility.

Subjects may be Safe Staffing, Vacancies, Safety, Infection Control, New Protocols, Survey Results and Staffing Complaint Forms (ADOs).

You are invited to attend this meeting which will be held in the Sinclair Room on Monday July 28, from 2-3 p.m.

The current topic will be Changes to Job Descriptions, Medication Safety, and Voluntary Overtime Priority.  If you have other topics you'd like discussed, please let me know NLT this Thursday, July 24, so I can get it on the agenda.

Also let me know if you plan to be in attendance.

2025-2027 Contract

Our 2025-2027 Contract is now in effect and posted to our local website! You can find it on our homepage. You can expect to see your Range Increase and 3% wage increase on your July 25, 2025 paystub.

Here are the highlights:

• 3% Wage increase July 1, 2025; 2% Wage increase July 1, 2026.
• RN 2 - One pay range increase from 68 N to 69 N.
• RN 3 - One pay range increase from 72 N to 73 N.
• MOU which provides an additional $1/hour to evening and night shift workers.
• Maintenance of the 24/7 MOU which pays a 5% premium to nurses in facilities such as ours. The takeaway is that it will not cover OT hours.
• Adding steps to the N1 Pay Scale which formerly didn't exist (ghost steps): Steps 14, 17 and 23.
• New language for Voluntary OT. Facilities will be required to offer OT shifts to all staff prior to agency. It designates that OT shifts can be offered to All classifications of RNs after a priority 24 hour window reserved for on-call nurses. Once the shift has been awarded to a FT or PT nurse, the shift cannot be taken away and given to an On Call or agency nurse.
• Kept current contract language 5.4B regarding availability for On Call nurses. (Avoided management's proposed changes).
• Increase in the L & I Risk Class Code from $500 to $750 (Article 41.32) which nurses qualify for on July 1 of each year.

WSNA Nurse Representative Janet Stewart, JStewart@wsna.org