Break Nurse petition signed and delivered

Thank you for signing the Break Nurse petition and for encouraging your co-workers to sign.  Your comments were to the point and meaningful. The names and comments were placed on a poster and presented to CNE Kristi Hartway at the end of the Hospital Staffing Committee meeting yesterday. Hopefully Kristi will do the right thing and get us our break nurse shifts back.

Thank you to our petition presenters: Courtney Gray from Med-Onc., Shila Muller from the E.D. and Christina Billingsley from Family Birth Center.

Break Nurse Grievance Update

This group grievance began at Step 2 on August 29. Management had requested an extension to respond, NLT September 26. On September 26, they had not formulated a response and asked for another 2 week extension to respond. We've waited long enough. WSNA declined the extension and advanced the grievance to Step 3. We are trying to get that meeting scheduled soon.  Step 3 will be heard by CNE Kristi Hartway and Multicare Labor Manager Chad Robinson.

We know it is incredibly frustrating to watch management violate the contract and our trust, but the grievance process takes time. While we're waiting for the grievance to work its way through the system, we need the bargaining unit nurses to continue our actions to let management know that we need our break nurses back and that we will NOT back down.  

Here's what YOU can do to help ramp up the pressure on MultiCare: 

• We've handed out over 300 WSNA T-Shirts. WEAR THEM on BLUE FRIDAY.  Take pics and post on our WSNA Good Sam Social Media pages. Instagram @gshnurses

• The Small and Medium T-shirts have arrived. Contact one of the WSNA officers or your Unit Rep for a shirt.

• Wear your "Break for Safety" buttons and stickers every day.

• Attest your missed breaks on Kronos; on the unit break tracking sheet; and ADOs

• You wrote #188 ADOs in August and #220 ADOs so far in September - Way to Go !!  Flood CNE Kristi's inbox.

• Stay tuned for future actions.

Consecutive Weekend Grievance - Unfair Labor Practice

WSNA filed an Unfair Labor Practice against Multicare for Unilaterally retracting the Consecutive Weekend Pay for extra pick-up shifts; and for violating our contract. Testimony for this will begin in the coming months. Also, this Grievance is on its way to Arbitration.

What can you do?  Help us collect data which could be used for the Arbitration and ULP.

• Did you receive CWW pay for extra weekend pick up shifts which you offered to do to help the needs of the unit?   Which unit and what was the general time frame that this practice occurred? How many years back did this practice occur?

• Were you denied CWW pay for extra weekend pick up shifts? Do you have the correspondence denying you?

• Are you from a unit which historically has not offered CWW for extra pick up shifts? Which unit?

• Do you have a copy of management emails or texts which have either offered CWW or denied CWW for extra weekend pick up shifts?

Please send your responses to JStewart@wsna.org.

Questions/Comments, contact:

Your Good Samaritan Officers,

Ilia Mondoy, Raeli Korzeniecki, Mindy Thornton, Aaron Bradley, Anne Landen, Atalia Lapkin

WSNA Organizer Grace LaMonte GLamonte@wsna.org
WSNA Nurse Rep Janet Stewart Jstewart@wsna.org