[brian]

SOUTHWEST, Fla -- WINK News reporter Nick Spinetto talked with some of the nurses at Naples Community Hospital, who have filed formal charges against Naples Community Hospital with the National Labor Relations Board. The nurses say they are being intimidated into not organizing.

Watch the video: http://www.winknews.com/news/local/13679952.html#.

[ingelein]

These hospitals actually hire firms to come in and "union bust" for them. I hope the NLRB slaps them down.

[HM2Viking]

Another argument for card check laws...

[BoogerBaby]

Nurses should not be allowed for join unions, let alone strike. We are here to provide patient care. Unionizing and striking makes us look like greedy people who don't give a hoot about their patients. DOWN WITH UNIONS. Management in these fine hospitals offers fair wages and working conditions for staff nurses. There is no need to unionize.

[cenote]

It is beyond me why a nurse would state that fellow nurses should not be allowed to join a union or strike. It is also mysterious that a nurse would presume that the hospital involved is a "fine" institution when peers are being intimidated by the administration.

I suspect the person is a plant by the corporations that bleed nurses dry to make their profit and sacrifice patient care for money. (And excuse me, but the greedy are those whose priorities are to please the stockholders at the cost of patient outcome).

(If not a plant, this person is in serious need of studying basic reasoning and logic).

Why, just because we are nurses, should we be prohibited from demanding better working conditions? Why should we accept dangerous nurse to patient ratios, lack of ancilliary aides and supplies? Why should we lie down and be trod upon because we happen to be in health care? What makes us less deserving as employees than others who have been abused in their profession?

Nurses are and will always be the backbone of the hospital and the only true advocates for the patients vs the corporate mentality. It is up to us to demand better working conditions and HIGHER PAY for the sacrifices we make to advocate for out patients.

Strike? YES!!!! Perhaps the "powers that be" will learn we are not the "angels" of yesterday. . . but the self empowered professionals that demand better for ourselves and for those for whom we care.

Cenote

[MBANurse]

Originally Posted by cenote

It is beyond me why a nurse would state that fellow nurses should not be allowed to join a union or strike. It is also mysterious that a nurse would presume that the hospital involved is a "fine" institution when peers are being intimidated by the administration.

I suspect the person is a plant by the corporations that bleed nurses dry to make their profit and sacrifice patient care for money. (And excuse me, but the greedy are those whose priorities are to please the stockholders at the cost of patient outcome).

(If not a plant, this person is in serious need of studying basic reasoning and logic).

Why, just because we are nurses, should we be prohibited from demanding better working conditions? Why should we accept dangerous nurse to patient ratios, lack of ancilliary aides and supplies? Why should we lie down and be trod upon because we happen to be in health care? What makes us less deserving as employees than others who have been abused in their profession?

Nurses are and will always be the backbone of the hospital and the only true advocates for the patients vs the corporate mentality. It is up to us to demand better working conditions and HIGHER PAY for the sacrifices we make to advocate for out patients.

Strike? YES!!!! Perhaps the "powers that be" will learn we are not the "angels" of yesterday. . . but the self empowered professionals that demand better for ourselves and for those for whom we care.

Cenote

I think it was sarcasm.


btw strike; by all means... I'll cross the line and make the big bucks each and everyday you are out there.

[cenote]

No, the original reply was not sarcasm...and as far as scabbing goes...the name fits. Just go for it...the money, since you can't make it in another, more noble way. Someone will always be there to suck the tit ...why not you.

[MBANurse]

Originally Posted by cenote

No, the original reply was not sarcasm...and as far as scabbing goes...the name fits. Just go for it...the money, since you can't make it in another, more noble way. Someone will always be there to suck the tit ...why not you.

Really... why not me?

There is no reason why it shouldn't be me. I believe that unions are corrupt and that the workers that they represent are getting the shaft from the union as much as; if not more, then from management. But then again; I have the ability to speak and bargain on my own behalf and do not let others intimidate me. So exactly. Why not me. A dollar is a dollar and its better to get it through working than off the government teat... isn't it?

[cenote]

Unions are corrupt? At what point in your intellectual career did you determine this? Please educate me on the intricacies of your research concerning nursing unions?

And as far as the "almighty dollar"...when you undercut your fellow nurses, you rape yourself. My mother, age 86, and a former RN, tells me the same stories about nurse abuse that I am experiencing as a nurse today.

If we as professional, sit and take it then we ask for it and accept our fate. Rather, in life, let us all shape out own fate and forge a better life for ourselves and our patients.

Scabs? You are who you are...you kick yourself in your own butt and spit in the face of your fellow nurses. As long as you are out there , you delay the betterment of your own life and the elevation of quality of care for our patients.

[MBANurse]

Originally Posted by cenote

Unions are corrupt? At what point in your intellectual career did you determine this? Please educate me on the intricacies of your research concerning nursing unions?

And as far as the "almighty dollar"...when you undercut your fellow nurses, you rape yourself. My mother, age 86, and a former RN, tells me the same stories about nurse abuse that I am experiencing as a nurse today.

If we as professional, sit and take it then we ask for it and accept our fate. Rather, in life, let us all shape out own fate and forge a better life for ourselves and our patients.

Scabs? You are who you are...you kick yourself in your own butt and spit in the face of your fellow nurses. As long as you are out there , you delay the betterment of your own life and the elevation of quality of care for our patients.

I would suggest that you lay off the union propaganda for a bit my friend.

Any organization that has to "force" people to join to maintain employment; and then charge those same members wildly high fees; pay the union leaders large salaries... and hob knob with the most corrupt of all peoples.... politicians; HAS to be corrupt.

I guess I could say to you "at what point in your intellectual career did you determine that unions weren't corrupt?"

Which, btw, was nothing more than a "more polite" attempt at calling me stupid. Good for the goose... good for the gander.

Next thing you know... you will cite the CNA webpage about all the great stuff that the CNA does.