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.

Ding Dong the Witch is dead!

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

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I absolutely agree with the social engineering of producing many nurses and hiring outside the country to drive wages down. I hope any RN from other countries vote to unionize in order to add to the strength of supporting wages and raising them! :) I also agree that hospitals are using FLEXTIME to totally capitalize. "So what if you get 5 or 6 patients when you get in, we might call back Suzy RN in a couple of hours. Don't know yet. We're saving $120 by having her come in later." BS - they are so playing the numbers and pushing us to what we will accept. They push hard and far so as to have us accept them half way making us feel like we won something. They are not hiring. There is no shortage. They don't tell students this at orientation. There needs to be billboards and lawsuits for the BS served up. LOL... BSN.

The nurses at Orlando Health were talking to housekeeping. Housekeeping is completely loosing ALL their shift differential (the little they made) and their managers are STILL telling them not to talk to the union representatives or they will get fired. The people who need this union the most are being threatened, plus now they are adding additional work on them. Less pay more work, how much more do they expect them to take. They now have to write the times on their papers of when they throw out the trash, clean the bed, clean the floors, etc. The leadership at Orlando Health seems to have no morals or decency at all and is doing everything they can to scare these people. A lot of the nurses and union representatives are stepping in and informing them of their rights.

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Orlando Health workers rally over first round of pay cuts

\About 130 Orlando Health workers and community supporters gathered Monday morning at Lake Eola to protest the first round of pay cuts that take effect this week, and the impact they say those cuts will have on patient care.Union organizers for the National Nurses Organizing Committee held the rally and said collective bargaining is the only way to keep pay cuts from happening.

"Patient care is at stake," said Jennifer Lemmon, spokeswoman for the nurses union.

... Not so, said Orlando Health officials. "We've heard a lot of that chatter, but our quality of patient care is excellent and continuing to get better," said Kena Lewis, spokeswoman for Orlando Health, a health system that includes eight hospitals in Central Florida.

Many of the nurses attending came directly from working the first night shift that was affected by the differential pay cut. In August, Orlando Health announced it would cut night and weekend differential pay by up to 50 percent.

The nurses continue to press hospital officials to rescind the cuts, maintain and improve nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, and agree to a fair process for employees to organize a union ...

... The nurse-to-patient ratios are especially concerning, said Sarah Lasher, a nurse who works in the neonatal intensive-care unit at Winnie Palmer Hospital for Woman and Babies.

"We had a one-to-one or one-to-two ratio," she said of the number of nurses per infant. "Now that's being pushed to one [nurse] to three [infants]."...

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/health/os-orlando-health-workers-rally-20131007,0,6825069.story

Orlando Health has hired one of the best "union busters" in the country and it is costing them millions. It's funny how they can find millions to keep their employees from organizing but they can not find the money to stop the employee pay cut.

There are businesses that are hired by hospitals to stop unions. Do a search on google. If we as nurses don't unionize, we will paint ourselves into a corner and have no breathing room to make change. It will get tighter and tighter. Appeasement and concessions do not last. A few good months or weeks doesn't mean a thang at bedside.

There are businesses that are hired by hospitals to stop unions. Do a search on google. If we as nurses don't unionize, we will paint ourselves into a corner and have no breathing room to make change. It will get tighter and tighter. Appeasement and concessions do not last. A few good months or weeks doesn't mean a thang at bedside.

Your right. Orlando Health has already hired three different union busters. One has already been caught breaking the law more then once.

Wow...

It's great that the nurses have Sarah but it has grown to more than her as a leader. Sarah seems like the the point person and I'm not there but it's about all the nurses and techs and ancillary pros that need to stand up. Tao... all of Florida is watching this now.

The Orlando Health CEO and administrators are now trying to bribe the woman who started the petition. The other day she was approached and ask what does she want to stop all this. They basically tried to bribe her, it did NOT work. The union busters are also posting fake anti union letters from fake RN's. The letters are so stupid a monkey can tell they are lies. The Orlando Health administrators will sink to anything to stop the union from coming in and the illegal tactics never seem to end. The nurses are still standing strong and not falling for their garbage tactics.

I don't have much to add, but I just wanna say how pathetic OH sounds. I hope you all stick together and win this war. Nurses are the glue that holds a hospital together and they should be getting a raise if anything, certainly not a pay cut + higher patient/nurse ratios! This entire fiasco sounds insane and only proves that nurses need to organize themselves. Good luck!

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