Big pay cut at Orlando Health, please help your fellow Nurses

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Please help your fellow Nurses in Orlando they are desperate. Orlando Health has spit in the face of Nursing. Please help them by signing a petition to stop this huge pay cut at change.org http://www.change.org/petitions/orlando-health-stop-nightshift-differential-cuts-to-nurses

"Orlando Health announced Monday, August 5 that they will be cutting the night and weekend shift differential to thousands of employees, across 8 area hospitals, to go in effect September 8. These cuts are more than 50% of the current rate and will result to each an individual loss upwards of $600/month, $7000-$15,000/year. A majority of the employees affected are Nurses, who are already notoriously underpaid and overworked. Corporate members are denying any request for negotiations, and gave less than 1-month notice for employees to acclimate to this substantial financial blow. The Orlando health corporation decided they want to decrease pay significantly, with no decrease in employee workload."

PLEASE! Your help is desperately needed.

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
NURSES ARE NOT POWERLESS!!!!!!!!

That mentality is why nursing is in the deplorable state it is now.

Take control of your profession, and vote in NNOC. Disregard the, "attaboy crumbs", that the hospital is throwing at you know.

Show them that YOUR are in control of your profession.

Engage the public. Have rallies in very public places, invite the press, and TV Stations. Invite a TV newscaster, that you think would support your position. Hold BP clinics, and offer free BP checks.

Have coloring sheets and crayons, bubbles, candy, fliers, to give out to the public. Include the salaries of the CEO, other hospital administrators, including perks, like County Club Memberships.

Remind the public, that no one ever died because they could not do long division, diagram a sentence, or recite the Gettysburg Address, but patients are dying, being harmed, because there are not enough nurses to go around, do to, "DELIBERATE UNDERSTAFFING BY THE HOSPITAL"!!

Remind them that your childs teacher can refuse anothe student, if he/she, has reached the maximum number of students. Why is you child safer in a day care center, than if they were a patient in a pediatric ward of the local hospital?

You CEO, managers, and administrators, ALL HAVE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS TO GUARANTEE THEIR JOB REQUIREMENTS, AND SALARY!! Why don't you?? Your CEO would not mop the floor, or clean bathrooms. Why not? because it is not in his/her, job description. It is in their contract what they are expected to do to run the hospital.

Ask the public, if they would want to sit on a bedpan for two hours, because their nurse had 9 other patients to care for. There is only so much one person can do.

State how colleges are now purposely overproducing nurses, who are now unable to get jobs. THEIR tax dollars, are paying for these nurses to attend, when their is no need for the number of nurses that are being produced. THEIR tax dollars are paying for student loans, that are being defaulted on, because the nurses have no reasonably expectation to find a job with the over producing of nurses that is going on.

You have to get as mean and dirty as they are!! Put on you big girl panties, and go to work!!

JMHO and my NY $0.02

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN (ret)

Somewhere in the PACNW

I agree with you 100% and I should have said feel powerless.
Here are some of the latest news videos and articles of what's going on with Orlando health. First link includes a video of news coverage. Its more about the CEO's hogwash. Now she is giving merit raises (Merit raises the nurses were denied earlier this year by the way) while still cutting the pay. It makes no sense other then a tatic to try to cool tempers and deter union activity. In the end the nurses are still getting screwed. They really do think the nurses and employees are stupid.

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/orlando-health-delays-cuts-shift-differential-pay/nZzGr/

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/morning_call/2013/09/orlando-health-delays-some-planned-pay.html?ana=fbk

I read the article on the 2nd link. So you won't qualify for a "merit" increase unless you were an employee as of 9/1/13?? So no raises for future employees?

Orlando Health CEO talks to WFTV about nurse pay issue | www.wftv.com What I really didn't like about this interview was this quote, "As for the threat of nurses leaving, she said there is not a nursing shortage anymore and while she hopes no one leaves, there are a lot of nurses looking for work."

What a lightly veiled jab at "We have hungry nurses out there ready to replace any loud mouths." Okay not exactly so, but very close.

Orlando Health CEO talks to WFTV about nurse pay issue | www.wftv.com What I really didn't like about this interview was this quote, "As for the threat of nurses leaving, she said there is not a nursing shortage anymore and while she hopes no one leaves, there are a lot of nurses looking for work."

What a lightly veiled jab at "We have hungry nurses out there ready to replace any loud mouths." Okay not exactly so, but very close.

I have wondered for a long time, why the local college I attended would continue to turn out two classes of graduates each year over the last ten years since I graduated, while so few positions were available for the new nurses. Why would schools over produce nursing graduates unless the ones designing the system knew and planned for the time would when cheap nurses would be needed to maintain the system. This was not by accident. If health care is a "right", who are we to complain (sarcasm intended) if our skills are what is the "right" of another human being. Compensation should be the least of our concerns (again, sarcasm intended) Thank the powers that be - the designers of healthcare system being put in place who have been working long and hard behind the scenes for a long time.

Specializes in Critical-care RN.

Supply and Demand for corporate way of keeping labor down:eek:

Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
Orlando Health CEO talks to WFTV about nurse pay issue | www.wftv.com What I really didn't like about this interview was this quote, "As for the threat of nurses leaving, she said there is not a nursing shortage anymore and while she hopes no one leaves, there are a lot of nurses looking for work."

What a lightly veiled jab at "We have hungry nurses out there ready to replace any loud mouths." Okay not exactly so, but very close.

*** There was never a nursing shortage. It was all deliberate propaganda intended to produce this exact situation. No need to treat nurses decently anymore. No need to fear that nurses will vote with their feet when faced with unfair or crappy treatment from managment. The current glut of nurses was deliberatly planned and the false "nursing shortage" was the propaganda that was used to do it.

There was a time when there were many more nurse jobs available. That in no way indicates a shortage of nurses, just a shortage of nurses who were willing to work under the conditions that exsisted at the trime.

Orlando Health CEO talks to WFTV about nurse pay issue | www.wftv.com What I really didn't like about this interview was this quote, "As for the threat of nurses leaving, she said there is not a nursing shortage anymore and while she hopes no one leaves, there are a lot of nurses looking for work."

What a lightly veiled jab at "We have hungry nurses out there ready to replace any loud mouths." Okay not exactly so, but very close.

"I really don't believe we need a third party getting involved in relationships that over many years have allowed us to have the success we've had," said Sitarik."

Yeah right, most of the nurses at Orlando Health have never even seen her face until she came marching the halls and started her anti-union campaign. This woman is a phony with a capital P. I do not think the truth has ever even seen her lips. Sherrie Sitarik has always had this Let them eat cake type of attitude. She is fighting tooth and nail to stop this union including illegal tactics. Have fun while you can Sherrie because you are about to taste what it is like to get your butt handed to you. The days of her and her cronies walking all over the Orlando Health nurses and employees are about to end. The nurses are about to kick her right in the you know what!

Now that it is official, nurses need to work on putting the brakes on the mass producing of nurses that are unable to get jobs.

This is another PR task for you. Get out in the community, Sherrie big mouth, has let the cat out of the bag, get the message out about what is going on. People will be shocked at how they have been manipulated.

Now the other task- if hospitals and nursing homes staffed appropriately, there would be plenty of jobs for nurses. There is now no reason for hospitals to use the excuse of the, "crushing nursing shortage", as an excuse for not having enough nurses caring for patients. They cannot have it both ways- either there is a nursing shortage as the reason for nurses having to take too many patients, or the hospital would rather risk a patient's health by deliberately understaffing.

I would make a public issue about this, and let administration come up with the answer to the public. I would also encourage patients to sue the hospital if their injury was caused by deliberate understaffing! I can just hear the statments in the courthouse!

Since Ms big mouth Sherrie made it a point to go public about this, go just as public and ask her to explain the reason for the short staffing in the hospital, and the detriment effects of it on patient care.

How about something like this- "hey Sherrie, since there is no longer a nursing shortage, and there are plenty of nurses out there that you want to hire, we are now only going to take 4 patients apiece in med surg, and only one or two in ICU. Hire away, Sherrie!"

And another thing, Sherrie, we are planning on informing the patients that you are too cheap to hire enough nurses, and so I guess, when the patients are not happy, and they complain, I guess, there goes, the Press Gainey for the year!" And Medicare reimbursements"!

That goes for everyone, not just the nurses at Orlando Regional.

JMHO and my NY $0.02

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN (ret)

Somewhere in the PACNW

Orlando Health Deploys Anti-Union Tactics Bringing Workers Closer Together

Orlando Health Deploys Anti-Union Tactics Bringing Workers Closer Together - NH Labor News

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

There are some pretty specific laws about this....Orlando health is walking a thin line.....I pray these nurses get their union. It's time for all nurses to rally together.

Ding Dong the Witch is dead!

But her flying monkey's are still alive so the fight must continue. Go Orlando Health nurses!

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/health/os-sherrie-sitarik-orlando-health-20130926,0,5999552.story

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/ceo-orlando-health-sherrie-sitarik-steps-down/nZ8MR/

Small victory for us! I wonder how Ms. Sitarik likes getting a pay cut... :sarcastic:

While I understand that she probably has a huge bonus attached to her being asked to resign, her reputation will most likely never recover and her days as CEO of anything are over.

Good bye!!! I can't believe you ever called yourself a nurse.

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