We’re being made to work mandatory overtime due to chronic short staffing, a problem Harborview created well before COVID. Instead of fixing the problem they created, they are actively continuing…
With unity breaks, unit petitions, community banners and meeting with Governor Jay Inslee and preparing for our strike vote, our message is clear: Respect Us, Protect Us, Pay Us.UW Medicine…
We’re united to ensure each patient that comes to Harborview receives excellent care. When that can’t happen due to a lack of resources and short staffing, we do everything we…
We’re bringing solutions to the bargaining table NOW because our patients can’t wait for UW Medicine to finally settle a contract that invests in their care. Short staffing is a…
UW can either bring proposals to meet our and our patients’ needs, or we will move forward with a vote to authorize a strike. UW administration has had numerous opportunities…
In our largest action ever, we took our demands of equity, recovery, safe staffing, and competitive wages for each of us to our community. Thousands of us demonstrated our unity…
We just experienced the hardest year of our careers, but through it all we did everything we could to provide the best quality care to our patients, even while taking…
Taking action is how we bring change to Harborview Medical Center, and on June 30, we marched on the Chief Nursing Officer to sound the alarm on Harborview's serious staffing…
On June 23, hundreds of us at Harborview Medical Center — representing our coworkers from nursing, respiratory therapy, social work, radiology, pharmacy, APPs, speech, and dietitians — delivered the 500+ short-staffing forms filled…
We put forward our vision for how to solve the problems that UW has created in our staffing, recruitment, and retention so our patients know that in their greatest moments…
At Harborview Medical Center, we joined together to deliver our unity petition to Interim CEO Sommer Kleweno-Walley, and our message was clear — UW Medicine must foster a workplace that respects…
At UW Medical Center - Northwest, dozens of us took action on June 10 and marched on CNO Keri Nasenbeny, CEO Cindy Hecker, and associate VP of Primary Care and Population…