re: Trigger Warning: UMC nurses in NO vote to unionize

Because I don’t want to be a CEO and I am approaching retirement.
I do, however, want to be able to have save healthcare when my family or I need it.

Why don’t you become a nurse since you guys seem to know what’s best for us.

Maybe those CEO's just need to create another career field to take even more of the burden off of what you are not willing to do.

I mean RN's have LPN's, CNA's, and PCT's. Nearly all of their job duties use to be done by RN's.

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You’ve got that backwards - we did have those. Now we are all of those. Plus housekeeping, lab, security, EKG tech, recptionist, etc

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Go work in a private practice

Why are you staying in a place you hate?

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Why don’t you work in another field

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I will. I jump jobs every few years.

I find it strange people work in a field which they chose, have opportunities to work elsewhere but want to stay and force their employer to change.

Never said I want to be in a union or that I would join one.
I just think that hospitals brought this upon themselves. It might be the only way to change their unsafe practices. And I’m not the victim. You and other unsuspecting patients are - I know what to look for and can advocate for myself and my family.

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But how do you resolve the Temp issue to fill needed bodies.

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It's a catch-22. Employment of locums leads to uncompensated workload dumps on permanent staff, which leads to more attrition, which leads to more temp hiring, and so it goes. Overcoming it will require administrative rethinking, forced or voluntary. Bonusing basis is generally not friendly to the latter.

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The real issue is if you want more pay, quit and become a Temp.

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That is happening.

Of course it just worsens things as RNs familiar with one system have a learning curve and little loyalty in another which renders them far less efficient in their new system. Permanent staff in the new system get dumped on and exit as a result.

It is a terrible care model.

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Also, to this group - your misogynist side keeps showing when you refer to female dominated professions…

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If the man can pay you less, he will. If he can exploit labor he will. If he can get away with unsafe work conditions, he will. It is what it is. Greed drives the economy, but there must be a bulwark against unfettered capitalism and big business. Unions are one of those ways, particularly at the local level. Another way is for the break up of monopolies. But unfortunately, all of our institutions are corrupt and they are in bed with one another. Unions at the local level are the only hope for working people. The guys in the international labor offices are just as corrupt as any other institution. Government, corporations, churches, universities, school systems, hospitals/healthcare, pharmaceuticals, etc… They’re all corrupt as frick.

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If the man can pay you less, he will. If he can exploit labor he will. If he can get away with unsafe work conditions, he will. It is what it is. Greed drives the economy, but there must be a bulwark against unfettered capitalism and big business

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Good ole populism. The working mans fantasies.

"Unfettered capitalism" is a leftist dog whistle and a total fabrication. Your defense vs "capitalism" is your own work ethic and sense of enterprise.