A Message from the President

When elected to serve as your VP2, I shared in my bio: “I will enthusiastically continue to serve our diverse membership in achieving our shared goals, living our shared values, and actively working together to fully realize our potential as USW Local 4-200, a respected and unified force for good.” I stand by this goal as I now stand with you, humbled and honored to serve as your President.

Together with you, your board, and with one another, let’s please continue to support each other as we have through life’s many different seasons. Every day is another chance to learn, to grow, to be the best versions of yourselves that we can be, to share whatever gifts we have, to feel emotion and achieve goals, and to be a meaningful connective thread in this amazing fabric of humanity and love – all as we directly affect the lives of those we care for. Nurses’ resilience, resourcefulness, adaptability, skill, and knowledge empower us to accomplish all the miracles we are a part of daily.

I look with hope to the future that with our collective time, talents, and abilities, we can lift each other up, allowing grace and kindness through this process forward. It is the solidarity we share in caring for our patients and their families with excellence, empathy, and most importantly with safety that is the power of our union – your USW 4-200. People United to care for people. It speaks to our collective voice in improving working conditions and promoting better quality of life and I am thankful to collaborate with you all to do just that.

As Helen Keller said “Alone we can do so little but together we can do so much”, I wholeheartedly agree and am excited for what we all accomplish together.

–  Jennifer Kwock, President