February 14, 2025
February 10, 2025
Nurses with international experience get equal pay at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma.
February 11, 2025
The contract had many important firsts and a huge win for justice.
January 16, 2025
The strike came after more than a year of negotiations failed to produce an agreement over staffing levels, pay and benefits.
January 15, 2025
Nearly 200 people came together in solidarity to take on the issues facing nurses at UW Medicine Montlake, UW Medicine Northwest, and Seattle Children’s Hospital.
The primary issues are Providence’s unfair labor practices, dangerously understaffed hospitals, the ability to spend more time with patients, employee healthcare, and competitive wages and benefits.
January 6, 2025
The nurses voted overwhelmingly in favor of the contract in a historic turnout.
December 17, 2024
After 10 bargaining sessions, nurses held informational picket Nov. 1.
November 12, 2024
Staffing levels keep falling and workplace violence and security need drastic improvement
October 31, 2024
Among the resolutions passed were two introduced by WSNA: one calling for tighter scrutiny and restrictions on healthcare consolidation, and one advocating for strengthened efforts to prevent workplace violence in healthcare
October 14, 2024
AFT builds nurses’ power and brings us together with other professionals
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
Nurses want hospital to invest in employee nurses, not expensive travel nurses
August 7, 2024
WSNA Executive Director David Keepnews has been elected as a vice-president of AFT.
July 25, 2024
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
They will be collecting signatures for hospital to recognize Juneteenth and to preserve nurse-centered Racial Justice Task Force
June 17, 2024
Wages, illness banks, increased premiums among significant gains
May 29, 2024
WSNA would not be where it is today without the significant contributions of these award winners
May 28, 2024
Empowering the next generation of pro-union politicians
PeaceHealth needs to do the right thing – pay home care nurses and hospice/palliative care nurses the same wages as hospital nurses.
May 17, 2024
One issue – Management’s refusal to negotiate fair wages for home health and hospice nurses
May 9, 2024
Union leaders from 32 local units converged to celebrate victories, hear from labor leaders, and learn how to strengthen nursing's voice.
April 30, 2024
Nurses get support from local officials, labor leaders, the community
April 22, 2024
The 1,465 nurses are represented by the Washington State Nurses Association
April 15, 2024
Severe understaffing does not allow nurses to meet community’s needs
March 27, 2024
