This recap details the second session for the renewal of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the UW and WSNA NW.<\/p>\n
Article 5 \u2013 Employment Practices \u2013 <\/strong>The Union proposed to modify section 5.11.4 regarding Workplace Violence Prevention with additional language that would create a separate Workplace Violence Committee exclusively for UWMC-Northwest. Additionally, the Union proposed to increase the number of members appointed to the committee by WSNA from one (1) to three (3).<\/p>\n Article 7 \u2013 Hours of Work and Overtime \u2013 <\/strong>The Union proposed to create a new section of this article that would create a break relief nurse assignment. Under this proposal, a registered nurse would be assigned to be a break relief nurse for at least a 4-hour increment with the purpose of relieving employees from their patient assignments for their rest breaks and\/or meal periods and would not receive permanent patient assignments. The proposal would require the Employer to assign an adequate number of nurses to provide break relief nurses.<\/p>\n Realignment of Articles \u2013 <\/strong>The Employer proposed to realign the order of articles in the UW-WSNA NW CBA to more closely align with the order of articles in the UW-WSNA ML CBA.<\/p>\n Article 2 \u2013 Association Membership, Dues Deduction & Article 3 \u2013 Association Representatives\u2013 <\/strong>As part of the Employer\u2019s proposal to realign articles in the UW-WSNA NW CBA, the Employer proposed to strike and move the contents of Article 3 \u2013 Association Representatives<\/em> into Article 2. The Employer\u2019s proposal includes updating the name of Article 2 to \u2018Association Representatives, Dues Deduction, Activities.<\/em>\u2019 The Employer also added language outlining the process for submitting information requests through Labor Relations.<\/p>\n New Appendix XX \u2013 Union Rosters \u2013 <\/strong>As part of the Employer\u2019s proposal to realign articles in the UW-WSNA NW CBA, the Employer proposed moving the section regarding bargaining unit rosters from Article 2 into a new appendix to align with the UW-WSNA ML contract, which has this information in a separate appendix.<\/p>\n The next UW and WSNA-NW bargaining session is scheduled for Thursday, April 15, 2025 and will be held in-person at UWMC Northwest Hospital.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This recap details the second session for the renewal of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the UW and WSNA NW. Union Initial Proposals Article 5 \u2013 Employment Practices \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negotiation-update","union-wsna-nw","duration-2025-2027"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"evane3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/labor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/labor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/labor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/labor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/labor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/labor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8987,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/labor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions\/8987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/labor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/labor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/labor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Employer Initial Proposals<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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