Executive Vice President Jane Hopkins, RN
As a frontline nurse, I understand the unique challenges and perspectives of caring for patients and fighting for better staffing. I worked at Harborview Medical Center for 12 years and was an active delegate and bargaining team member before I became an organizer with SEIU Healthcare 1199NW.
Since then, I’ve been proud to work with our member leaders at Harborview to take on some of our biggest fights to hold our hospital and UW Medicine accountable to their mission, resulting in our union’s first break relief nurse program. Through our unity across the state, we’ve raised staffing standards and advanced to a $15 minimum wage in many hospitals, which raises the baseline not only for us but our larger communities.
The challenges ahead of us are many and together we need to build a stronger union and protect the standards we have already won. Attacks are coming from all directions, including corporate healthcare CEO’s, organizations that want to take away our union rights, and elected leaders who want to dismantle our gains. Together we need to elect leaders who will stand with us and build our unity to be ready for the challenges ahead.
I’m passionate about providing patient care and advancing standards across the state. I’ll continue to fight for all of us, and I’m honored to be an Executive Vice President.
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