Stop by Lagerquist Saturday 5/9 from 11 am-2 pm or at night from 11 pm-2 am.

Your WSNA leaders will be there with delicious treats.  Each day during nurses week, there have been random prize drawings for a variety of Gift Cards. Winners will be notified, and are also posted on our SJMC RN Coworkers private Facebook group. Ask a co-worker to add you to the group.

WSNA Nurse Representative Change

With a heavy heart, I need to announce that duty calls me to change my facility assignments and today is my final day as WSNA Nurse Rep for the SJMC bargaining unit.

SJMC Nurses are near and dear to my heart, after once working here for 24 years in the ICU; then having the honor to come back and represent you as your WSNA Rep.

Hopefully we will cross paths from time to time, as I will still be nearby at St. Clare.

Please give a warm welcome to incoming Nurse Representative Sara Frey. It's actually a welcome back, as she has represented SJMC in the past. She was actually my Nurse Rep when I was a WSNA officer. I learned a lot from Sara and I have a lot of respect for her.  She has worked for WSNA for 17 years and has represented a number of Western Washington facilities. Beginning Monday, May 11, Sara can be reached at SFrey@wsna.org

Keep fighting the Great Fight for Safe Staffing - No Skeleton Crews !

In Solidarity,

Janet

Safe Staffing Grievance

Thank you to the 35+ Nurses who were able to join the Virtual Safe Staffing Grievance Meeting on May 4th. It was an awesome showing of support for Safe Staffing; with heartfelt testimony from many of you. For the remedy, we asked for:

1.    To staff RNs and Support Staff per the Matrices approved by the HSC.

2.    Maintain the HSC approved staffing levels throughout the shift.

3.    Post RN positions which have been vacated and hire more nurses.

4.    Post and hire more support staff to fill the vacancies.

5.    Bring in Travel Nurses to fill FMLA & PFMLA Leaves and Vacations.

6.    Cease assigning charge nurses to patient care assignments.

7.    Cease assigning break nurses and relief break nurses to patient care assignments.

8.    Assign enough break nurses and break relief nurses to provide nurses with their required meal and rest breaks.

9.    Develop a method to recognize and adjust staffing for high acuity patients when staffing assignments are made.

10.   Meet with WSNA to bargain a monetary incentive MOU for nurses willing to pick up extra shifts.

CNO Andrew Baxter should have a response for us NLT May 18, 2026 (14 days).

Mandatory Call Grievance

We met with HR and VP Keith Sprague on April 16^th for the PACU Mandatory Call Grievance. Walters and Main PACU nurses were present and testified that PACU nurses are being forced into Mandatory Call which goes against contract language. The response is 2 weeks overdue. Today WSNA refused to agree to allow management to continue extending the grievance response and advanced the grievance to the next Step, which is Step 3.  More information to come about when the Step 3 meeting will occur.  If mandatory call is still occurring, please notify the Nurse Representative.

Find your WSNA Contract and Leadership contacts here:  https://www.wsna.org/union/st-joseph-medical-center

Co-Chair Carina Price, ICU
Co-Chair Jessica Lenczycki, FBC
Secretary Shannon Suchland, Walters Day Surgery
Co-Secretary Rebecca Weichers, Med Surg Floor 7
Grievance Officer Yunna Flenord, ICU
Grievance Officer Lydia Alvarado, ICU 
Membership Officer Teresa Kindell, 2 South MS

WSNA Nurse Representative Janet Stewart  JStewart@wsna.org (outgoing)

WSNA Nurse Representative Sara Frey SFrey@wsna.org  (incoming)