klbackus

klbackus has 13 years experience and specializes in Health Policy, Cardiac Intensive Care.

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1. Incredible CNA/NNOC Loss In California!

   klbackus replied to Sherwood's topic in Union

   I'm sorry to hear that the nurses voted against having a stronger voice through a union. But it's really not a surprise--CNA leaders have been spending so much of their time and members' dues attempting to decertify and interfere in the elections of ...

2. Was that legal?

   klbackus replied to UM Review RN's topic in Union

   This is very common and is just a drop in the bucket in what hospitals will do to prevent nurses from forming a union. Some of what is done is legally permissible, sometimes not. It's a much different atmosphere when hospitals and unions agree to fre...

3. Unite nurses, don't divide us

   klbackus replied to klbackus's topic in Union

   I admit, I'm fairly new at the blogoshere. I get frustrated with typing in tiny windows and deciphering emotions via smileys :loveya: and not-so-smileys :angryfire. I'd much rather talk to someone face to face. If I am hostile to anyone, I truly don'...

4. Unite nurses, don't divide us

   klbackus replied to klbackus's topic in Union

   Julia, I appreciate your comments. I agree with you in many ways and I hope there is a resolution to the SEIU/CNA debate soon. My apologies for not responding to you earlier about the New York hospital. Here is what I was able to find out: For years...

5. Unite nurses, don't divide us

   klbackus replied to klbackus's topic in Union

   not so fast, chico david rn. the overwhelming majority of rns didn't buy what the cna was peddling. they could see through the false promises of california wages and pensions that cna/nnoc has never been able to deliver outside of california. not onl...

6. Unite nurses, don't divide us

   klbackus posted a topic in Union

   during national nurses week and throughout the year, seiu nurses feel we should be united, not divided --with other nurses, with other healthcare workers, with patient care advocates--to work for quality care. why then, is the california nurses assoc...

7. April 23rd and 24th California Nurses Association Decertification Election is ON!

   klbackus replied to Sherwood's topic in Union

   according to the press release from the hospital: for months, the cna has been mounting campaigns to persuade seiu nurses to decertify their union in hospitals in states including california, ohio, and nevada. in march, the cna sabotaged a three-y...

8. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

   klbackus replied to Chico David's topic in Union

   This week registered nurses at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas voted out the CNA as their union in an election. The decision by Scripps nurses to eject the CNA follows contract negotiations that didn't result in real improvements for nurses or pa...

9. SEIU vs. CNA this week at my hospital

   klbackus replied to CABG patch kid's topic in Union

   there's been a lot of back and forth about what actually transpired at the labor notes conference in dearborn, michigan. i wasn't there, but registered nurse dian palmer, president of seiu healthcare wisconsin, was. in this video, she describes what ...

10. Labor Leader Silent on Union-Busting in Ohio Hospitals

    klbackus replied to unionwoman's topic in Activism

    Not according to the Houston Chronicle, "Union is wary of its new rival on the scene / An area leader says California Nurses group is `raiding' her local".

11. Labor Leader Silent on Union-Busting in Ohio Hospitals

    klbackus replied to unionwoman's topic in Activism

    There's still more legal action against CNA pending, including an anti-SLAPP (which stands for strategic lawsuit against public participation) motion claiming that CNA sought the restraining order to silence free speech. See: http://www.ibabuzz.com/p...

12. SEIU vs. CNA this week at my hospital

    klbackus replied to CABG patch kid's topic in Union

    A California Superior court threw out the temporary restraining order today, dismissing it as another one of CNA's publicity stunts. See http://www.shameoncna.com/.

13. SEIU vs. CNA this week at my hospital

    klbackus replied to CABG patch kid's topic in Union

    yeah, this nurse and respiratory therapist are real bullies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngw2qjtgw4i they were just asking the cna leaders why their organization interfered in the union election of 8,000 healthcare employees in ohio.

14. April 23rd and 24th California Nurses Association Decertification Election is ON!

    klbackus replied to Sherwood's topic in Union

    Maybe if CNA spent less time trying to interfere in union elections of 8,000 hospital employees in Ohio or attempting to decertify nurses represented by other unions across the country they could focus on California RNs.

15. CNA's Union-Busting in Ohio-An Open Letter

    klbackus replied to LindaKirby's topic in Union

    My heart goes out to Linda and the other RNs at Catholic Health Partners who have had their dreams shattered by CNA--a so-call patient advocacy organization and so-called union. My nursing career has been dedicated to advancing nurses' voices in our ...