Does your hospital have a union? We have a union contract and our contract states that bedside nurses have to work every other weekend. If we are short on a weekend and our management asks us or forces us to work 2 weekends in a row then they have to pay us consecutive weekend pay which is time and a half. If you want to trade days or you volunteer to work every weekend you have to sign a waiver and waive the consecutive weekend pay. My suggestion is, is that you and the nurses should look into unionizing.