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do any of you guys or gals have experience with unions for healthcare profession
Posted on 9/9/16 at 1:49 pm
Posted on 9/9/16 at 1:49 pm
Pros and cons how do you get the ball rolling?
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Posted on 9/9/16 at 1:52 pm to ZULU
Call a union rep and they will guide you.
Posted on 9/9/16 at 1:52 pm to ZULU
Posted on 9/9/16 at 1:53 pm to ZULU
You work at CVS?
Posted on 9/9/16 at 2:00 pm to ZULU
Pros: you get a awesome pin
Cons: part of every one of your paychecks goes to an incompetent inefficient organization that spends the majority of dues on things other than representational activities for the dues payer; your company becomes more inefficient and probably less profitable resulting in less pie for everyone; poor performers will be be protected at the expense of the valuable employees; eventually if they can the owners will move the work somewhere else where they don't have to deal with it.
Cons: part of every one of your paychecks goes to an incompetent inefficient organization that spends the majority of dues on things other than representational activities for the dues payer; your company becomes more inefficient and probably less profitable resulting in less pie for everyone; poor performers will be be protected at the expense of the valuable employees; eventually if they can the owners will move the work somewhere else where they don't have to deal with it.
Posted on 9/9/16 at 2:28 pm to ZULU
I am a nurse in the Bay Area. I have worked at CNA NNU facilities and currently work at a SEIU facility. Unions are the sole reason we are well compensated and have good benefits. However, unions are powerful machines and truly do not care about you anymore than the hospital administrators. I will not work at nonunion hospitals ever again. Also i am a shop steward. Where are you? That will help in advising you on how to start one.
Posted on 9/9/16 at 2:57 pm to ZULU
Sure do need them in Louisiana.
Posted on 9/9/16 at 3:49 pm to jennBN
Lafayette louisiana I am a clinician, just would like more info. Guess we will be calling seiu to get things started.
Posted on 9/9/16 at 3:56 pm to jennBN
What hospital do you work at?
Posted on 9/9/16 at 4:08 pm to ZULU
This sounds like a great idea considering the current financial health of Louisiana hospitals.
Posted on 9/9/16 at 4:09 pm to ZULU
frick all unions, forever.
Posted on 9/9/16 at 9:46 pm to JumpingTheShark
Why
Posted on 9/9/16 at 9:52 pm to ZULU
Uhhh.....
Clearly you've never worked on a job site with union craft labor.
Clearly you've never worked on a job site with union craft labor.
Posted on 9/9/16 at 10:04 pm to jennBN
Interesting. Have worked in both types. Maybe it was the quality of the union but they were pretty lame and seemed to attract those that would never be satisfied. Have also worked with the never satisfied in non-union settings but didn't have that extra layer of silliness to contend with
Posted on 9/9/16 at 10:30 pm to ZULU
I have worked in a few here in the Bay Area. I have worked in some capacity for Sutter, Kaiser and county facilities here in California.
I do not believe you can unionize in La. You can try but I don't think it will be successful.
I do not believe you can unionize in La. You can try but I don't think it will be successful.
Posted on 9/9/16 at 10:39 pm to ZULU
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ZULU
Good luck to you. You will need it. Hospitals will climb in your arse quickly. It can get downright hostile. I'm here in Houston and when it's mentioned it is laughed away. I know a nurse who got fired.
You may get black balled essentially. Have a plan B.
People can bash unions, but when the shite hit the fan with Dallas and Ebola a few years back, that nurse was getting thrown under the bus. The California unions were the ones to step in and point out the lack of provided training and sorely lacking equipment.
Posted on 9/9/16 at 11:25 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Co-worker of mine's old lady is a union nurse here in the Bay area. She makes pretty good money. She does labor and delivery, but has done it all pretty much, all over the country. She's damn good at what she does, and likes to travel. It's been a definite plus for her.
Posted on 9/9/16 at 11:37 pm to ZULU
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Lafayette louisiana
I can tell you now, it's not going to happen.
Posted on 9/10/16 at 11:30 am to Restomod
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I can tell you now, it's not going to happen.
No motivation. And a few nursing campuses cranking out new grads every semester. ADN, BSN for RNs. And I am sure LVNs as well.
The hospitals can do what they want. They have a new crop to hire each year. I am from the Beaumont area. Same situation. My max salary potential there vs. houston was a no-brainer.
I felt bad for all of the nurses with real roots in the area. They were stuck in a job with a ceiling (at the time 1998) hourly salary of $25/hr.
And in SETX and SWLA unions are a tough sell to a community that have seen both the good and bad of unions in the oil and gas industry. They rolled out the unions and hired em' back as contractors. In nursing we are called "travelers". Travel RNs and new grads can keep hospitals going for years. 2000-2010 they did for ALL of Arizona. No idea what it is like now.
I wish the OP luck, but it is an uphill battle. Hospitals will try to make you look like a loon, and cry to the public that it will drive them out of business and or make costs skyrocket. All the while contacting travel nurse companies to ship in nurses who will make a lot more than current nurses, if the shite does hit the fan.
Posted on 9/10/16 at 11:40 am to elposter
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part of every one of your paychecks goes to an incompetent inefficient organization that spends the majority of dues on things other than representational activities for the dues payer; your company becomes more inefficient and probably less profitable resulting in less pie for everyone; poor performers will be be protected at the expense of the valuable employees; eventually if they can the owners will move the work somewhere else where they don't have to deal with it
The great lie of the southern conservative.
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