“It’s the dawn of a new era for health care in Wichita, and nurses are glad to have the community support we’ve already received.” Francis nurses on, and we can’t wait to win our election and get to the bargaining table ourselves,” said Whitney Steinike, RN in the adolescent psychiatric unit at Ascension Via Christi St. We’re hopeful management will come to the table and negotiate a contract worthy of our patients, nurses, and community, one that prioritizes safe-staffing.” “There’s so much power in a union,” said Sara Wilson, an RN in the orthopedic trauma unit at Ascension Via Christi St. Who: Registered nurses from Ascension Via Christi St.If successful, NNOC/NNU will represent a total of nearly 1,000 Wichita-area nurses at these two Ascension facilities. Joseph nurses are seeking to join them, having filed a petition for union representation with the NLRB. Francis became the largest Wichita hospital and first private-sector hospital in the city to unionize when nurses there voted by a nearly two-to-one margin to join NNU, the largest and fastest-growing nurses’ union in the United States. The people of Wichita deserve nothing less, and that’s why we unionized.” We’re rallying to show management we’re excited about a contract that empowers us to give our patients the best care possible, especially through addressing the staffing crisis at our facility. “Nurses are patient advocates, both at the bedside and at the bargaining table. “This is going to be a historic day for Wichita, both for us as nurses and for the entire community,” said Shelly Rader, RN in the emergency department at Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph hospital, where registered nurses just filed their own union petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Francis nurses will also be joined by their union siblings from Wichita’s Ascension Via Christi St. Francis RNs beginning negotiations on their first contract, announced National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU) today. Union nurses in Wichita, Kan., will hold a rally on Wednesday, Feb. California RN-to-Patient Staffing Ratios.“There’s been an increase, I think, something like 57% of applications to the National Labor Board to go through this process. “There is actually a lot more organizing happening,” Cumpton said. It’s part of a rising trend according to Greg Cumpton, who researches union efforts as co-director of the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs. This vote comes at a time when other workers in Central Texas have pushed to unionize recently, including at several Starbucks locations in Austin as well as Tiff’s Treats. “I think the deteriorating work conditions - especially through the COVID crisis and pandemic and the hemorrhaging of staff that we had, with the minimal retention efforts that our facility was trying to make for them - really just put us to the breaking point where we said something’s got to change,” Clark added. According to the union, nurses said they’d like to work with the hospital to address issues like short-staffing, recruitment and retention.
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