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AFT’s Weingarten reacts to results of the 2024 election

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What binds us as Americans is far more important than what divides us.

November 9, 2024

Nurses at Virginia Mason holding a vigil to protest closure of Family Birth Center

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Community invited to share frustration at Nov. 14 event (6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.)

November 8, 2024

Nurses at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma picket Nov. 1 for better conditions

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Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement

October 31, 2024

Home health nurses in Spokane seek community support for safety measures

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Providence VNA Home Health nurses collected more than a thousand signatures from the community

October 16, 2024

WSNA follow-up statement on closure of Sacred Heart adolescent psychiatry unit

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Providence wants the community to believe that closure of their adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit will not negatively impact the community and patients they once served. This is simply not true.

September 5, 2024

Sacred Heart healthcare workers holding rally for accountability Sept. 5 in Spokane

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Providence is closing inpatient psychiatric unit for adolescents Sept. 7. Providence’s closure of the unit leaves Eastern Washington with little care and didn’t need to happen, nurses and techs/service and maintenance workers say.

August 28, 2024

Inslee appoints WSNA member Keondra Rustan to UW Board of Regents

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Rustan is a second-year doctoral candidate in the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner program at the University of Washington and president of the Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization

August 19, 2024

Washington State Nurses Association endorses Kamala Harris

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The WSNA Board of Directors today issued the following statement endorsing Kamala Harris for President of the United States.

August 15, 2024

Skyline nurses seek community support in negotiations

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Nurses want hospital to invest in employee nurses, not expensive travel nurses

August 7, 2024

Keepnews elected as an AFT vice-president

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WSNA Executive Director David Keepnews has been elected as a vice-president of AFT.

July 25, 2024

WSNA statement on shooting at Trump rally

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WSNA takes a stand against political violence in any circumstance.

July 14, 2024

Skagit nurses demand equitable pay at hospital board meeting

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After 5 months of contract negotiations, the nurses at Skagit Valley Hospital spoke at the Board of Commissioners meeting and delivered a letter demanding fair and equitable pay.

July 11, 2024

Nurses at St. Joseph’s in Tacoma celebrating Juneteenth by taking action

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They will be collecting signatures for hospital to recognize Juneteenth and to preserve nurse-centered Racial Justice Task Force

June 17, 2024

WSNA statement on the war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza

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WSNA adds our voice to the many civil organizations and labor unions in the U.S. and worldwide calling for an immediate ceasefire, access to humanitarian aid, release of all hostages, and a negotiated peace.

June 5, 2024