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Victory for patient safety: Safer staffing is coming to WA hospitals!
Leaders from three healthcare unions in our WA Safe + Healthy coalition — SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, UFCW 3000, and WSNA — discuss the details of this historic new law and its impact on patient care. They outline next steps for implementation, including ways in which...
United for changes to our workplace and our communities
The springtime brought with it big contract wins and legislative victories for WA’s healthcare workers! Read on to see how we’ve been ringing in the sunshine. Last month, healthcare workers at Community Health Care Clinics across Pierce County officially ratified a...
Celebrate May Day by taking action for immigrant workers
This May Day/International Workers’ Day, we honor and recognize the contributions of immigrant workers to this country and honor the sacrifices they have made for economic and racial justice. Immigrants are vital to key sectors that strengthen and grow the US...
Join the Candlelight Vigil for Safety, Staffing, and Wages at Wellfound
We are calling on Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital in Tacoma to do the right thing by settling a contract that keeps us safe and respects our sacrifice as behavioral health workers. Join union members, friends, family and community members on April 27 from 6-8pm...
Anti-labor legislation defeated in Montana
The Montana Labor Movement, including SEIU Healthcare 1199NW nurses at Logan Health in Kalispell, united in our efforts to beat back anti-worker legislation. Together we defeated the anti-union Right to Work bill, among other bad bills that would impede on the rights of workers across MT.
A win for working families and public sector healthcare workers is a win for patient care
In March, healthcare workers at EvergreenHealth in Kirkland, WA ratified historic contracts with NO takeaways and the largest wage increases we’ve ever seen at EHK! We secured raises of 15-20% for everyone over the next 16 months, a $1,000 ratification bonus, past...