Coming next week:
Strike Committee meetings &
Local Unit meetings to update you on mediations

Spokane Labor Council
510 S. Elm

We continue to meet with management for bargaining AND we continue to prepare for a strike. Next week, strike committees will start their work in earnest. We also have a mediation session, followed by Local Unit meetings.

Nov 20, 8 p.m. – Strike Committee Meeting (2-hour session)
Nov 21, 8 a.m. – Strike Committee Meeting (2-hour session)

Mediation date Nov 22!

Nov 23, Saturday - Local Unit Meetings
8 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., and 8 p.m.

All meetings will be held at the Spokane Labor Council, 510 S. Elm.

Keep those petition signatures coming.

Since we ran our full-page ad in the Spokesman-Review, more than 2,500 people have signed on to our public petition.

Keep sharing the petition and encouraging community members to sign! Here are some of the great words of support we have gotten so far:

Our Providence Sacred Heart nurses are the “heart” of Spokane healthcare. While much of the focus of caregiving is on the actual physical care that is given, Sacred Heart nurses provide an overwhelming amount of care on a social, emotional, and psychological basis. Our Sacred Heart nurses invest their love and care in individuals and thus the long-term future of the Spokane community.

Providence nurses have been my backbone and support through all of my medical, pregnancy, childbirth, and emotional needs. These nurses are the ones who take HOURS out of their day to give every single person individualized care. I stand with you providence nurses. You deserve better than this.

After suffering a medical emergency and after the death of my mother, I just don't know how I could have handled things without YOU-my wonderful nurses!

Most recently, my mother has received exceptional wonderful care from nurses caring for her condition and her spirit as she enters the last stages of her life. I am also most grateful to the SH L&D nurses for their problem solving, teamwork and care of my daughter as they helped her and her beloved bring my beautiful granddaughter into the world. We owe them so much. Sacred Heart owes them more! They deserve safer working conditions, better benefits and better pay! Stop being greedy SHMC Management!!

Any questions? Contact WSNA Nurse Representative Jaclyn Perkins, BSN, RN at 800-231-8482, ext. 3118 or jperkins@wsna.org.