hey to all. we won our grievance that i filed sept. 24 01. i was the first to file so everything went under my name as a blanket grievance and i was the one to testify at the hearing we just had last week. i and several others, rn and lpn and cna, were called off unjustly, out of rotation by union rules. the deal was that our manager quit and administration got one charge rn, who sucks up to admin. to agree to do charge and some admin. duties. we were told that this charge rn would not be called off in the rotation list because she was needed for "managerial duties". note, none of this was mentioned until she refused to be called off. what a crock of sh*t. what happened was. the night shift charge nurse called her off, she refused , saying she needed to be there for conferences. LIE! so then the night shift charge called me, being next on the list and said she was sorry but since the charge had refused to be called off it was my turn. bull sh*t. I came in anyway and the charge who should gave been called off told me she knew it was her turn and would take her turn the next day. i told her that was not the way it worked.by the way she never took her turn until the grievance was in full force. she said we would speak to the admin. person in charge then. i said fine. she must have then called the admin. person and put me on the phone. i was not allowed to speak. told to go home. which i did. after that many people were called off out of rotation because this charge was supposed to be excluded from the rotation list due to her administrative duties, which clearly violates union rules. anyway, we had the hearing and admin. tried to twist the facts and say i was called off because i was an lpn. ok, then what about all the rns that were called off out of rotation. thankfully the hearing officer saw through thier bullsh*t and now we all have to be paid back. yippee, and thank goodness for unions. otherwise we would have been screwed. thanks for listening. j
