Your fellow nurses on your WSNA bargaining team met with Management for our second day of negotiations on March 3, 2025. We reached tentative agreements on some small language issues; and we had good discussions regarding floating, including the difficulties that occur when charge nurses and preceptors/preceptees are floated. We proposed that these nurses not be floated for patient safety and for consistency in the new nurse training.

We spent much of the day discussing our proposals related to staffing, retention and recruitment.  We proposed to include the staffing ratios in the contract and to enhance staffing.  We proposed dedicated break coverage so that nurses do not have to take additional patients to cover the breaks of other nurses.  We also proposed to increase significantly the number of Resource nurses to help with staffing challenges.

We also invited Management to work with us to reduce the number of times units are not staffed according to the staffing plan.  The staffing plan needs to be more than aspirational.  If units are not regularly staffed according to the plan, then we need to come up with ways to change that.  We invited Management to work with us to address this challenge. We need attractive compensation and good working conditions so that we can recruit and retain nurses for all shifts and units and reduce the reliance on costly traveler nurses.

Our next session is on March 18, 2025.  We will continue to roll up our sleeves and work through the issues.

Ryan Rosenkranz, our WSNA Nurse Organizer rounded on Central’s units during the bargaining session, distributing button, stickers and remaining t-shirts. Additionally, she has been collecting a list of nurses who still need t-shirts for the new order that went out.

If you need a WSNA T-Shirt please contact Ryan or Laurie with your name, unit, and size.

In solidarity,

Your Bargaining Team
Todd Avis-Case Management
Paul Molenaar-ED
Simon Morton-SOU
Isaiah Ray-ICU
Sara Bergenholtz-ED
Edilia Perez-CVOR
Brittney Lamb- ED
Karen Doiron-MOU
Stefanie Gates-PACU

Ryan Rosenkranz Nurse Organizer   rrosenkranz@wsna.org

Laurie Robinson Nurse Representative  lrobinson@wsna.org