The Nurses Week festivities begins Monday, May 6, with a delicious complimentary breakfast, sponsored by your WSNA Officers.

Join us between 6-9 a.m. at the Gordon Education Conference Room. Enjoy your meal there or take it to go.  Be sure to stop by the WSNA table to enter prize drawings for $100 Figs Scrubs gift card, and pick up some WSNA swag.

During the week, there will be a random drawing for various gift cards. Need not be present to enter or to win.  Winners will be notified by email or text; gift cards will be either hand delivered or mailed out to you.  Make sure your contact information is up-to-date.

Update your contact information at https://www.wsna.org/membership/update-info.

Consecutive Weekend Pay Grievance

Management has recently decided to no longer pay nurses CWW (Consecutive Weekend Worked) Premium of 1.5X when nurses pick up an extra weekend shift to help the needs of the unit.  That is extremely disappointing that they are changing past practice and are misinterpreting contract language. The language did NOT change from the old to the new contract. WSNA maintains that when a nurse offers to pick-up a weekend shift to fill voids in the posted schedule, you are not waiving your CWW Premium. WSNA maintains that nurses who work on a scheduled weekend off shall receive CWW Premium.

7.7           Weekends  -The Employer shall schedule full-time and part-time nurses to provide at least every other weekend off.  In the event a full-time or part-time nurse works two (2) successive weekends under this scheduling pattern, all time worked on the second weekend shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half (1 1/2) the regular rate of pay.  The third and regularly scheduled weekend shall be at the nurse's regular rate of pay.  Nurses regularly scheduled to work less than every other weekend will be eligible for time and one-half (1 1/2) the regular rate of pay under this Section 7.7 on the third (3rd) consecutive weekend worked.  This section shall not apply to per diem employees.  The weekend shall be defined as that period of time from 7:00 a.m. Saturday to 7:00 a.m. Monday for employees working day or evening shift, and from 11:00 p.m. Friday to 11:00 p.m. Sunday for employees working night shift.  A nurse may request a change in the weekend work schedule if the change is submitted at least five (5) days prior to the new schedule posting.  Requested changes are subject to management approval and shall not result in the payment of overtime and/or premium pay provided for in this Section 7.7.  Premium pay (7.7) shall not apply to time spent for educational purposes, special projects unless previously authorized by the Director, nurses who trade weekends, nurses who voluntarily agree to more frequent weekend duty, nurses who work weekend only positions, or to nurses filling more than one (1) position on different units.

9.9           Weekend Premium -  Any nurse who works on the weekend shall receive four dollars and twenty-five ($4.25) per hour for each hour worked in addition to the nurse's regular rate of pay.  The weekend premium will not be considered as part of the regular rate of pay for overtime calculations.  The weekend for premium pay purposes shall be defined as beginning at 11:00 p.m. Friday and includes any shift that begins before11:01 p.m. Sunday.  Any nurse who works on a "scheduled weekend off" shall receive time and one-half (1 1/2) the regular rate (computed without the weekend premium) and in addition shall receive the weekend premium of four dollars and twenty-five ($4.25)  for each weekend hour worked.  Nurses who wish to exchange weekends must submit such requests in writing to the Nursing Division for approval.  Such exchanges shall not be subject to the overtime provision of this Agreement.  Nurses on callback from standby status shall receive the weekend premium for actual time worked on the weekend.  Weekend premium pay shall not be paid while on standby status on a weekend.

Call to action – Be present at the CWW Group Grievance meeting to stand behind our contract language. 

Date:  Friday, May 17  

Time:  11:00 – 11:55 a.m.

Location:  Mt Adams Conference Room on 2 River or virtual via Teams

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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