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 OB / ED / ICU.

That is wrong, wrong, wrong. You're right, if there must be pain, then the pain should be shared by everyone, not just one shift. I hope you can get this settled; this is disgraceful. How can they have Magnet status when they're treating their staff in such a treacherous manner?

They cut the pay a few days after they got Magnet! They are very very sly!

Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.

I'm in. I hope that it helps.

Charge pay and shift diff was cut a few years ago in the hospital system I was in at the time. Everyone screamed, people threatened to leave. Reality? No one quit, because the pay wasn't better anywhere else (or if it was, it meant starting at the bottom of the seniority pile for those who had spent years earning their place near the top). And this was at a hospital that had already voted to NOT have a union! Yessir, no one wanted a union (or at least, not close to the majority) so that point is moot.

Everyone just got paid less. Except upper management, of course. Period.

this is happening like crazy. I worked in Austin and the weekend diff was cut with only 30 day notice. This was a big loss of income for the weekend staff.

Specializes in Critical-care RN.
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I was just looking at the Salary 2013 posts and the wages with the highest amount are from union hospitals on the most part and are a pretty good chunk higher too.

It seems everything I read about Florida is something negative.

Hopefully this won't become a trend any time soon. Nurses shouldn't be anymore underpaid than they already are for their efforts.

I will again repeat myself- the CURE TO MANAGEMENT ABUSES IS A UNION CONTRACT!!

There is NO choice, folks!! They have pushed to minimize any power that was gained in the recent past, by screaming about a non existent nursing shortage. And the PTB, responded to the go ahead to overproduce nurses.

Nurses have no power because the martyr marys that continue to exist in nursing still refuse the only weapon that we have- unionizing!!

Spare me the sob stories, of unprofessional unions, blah, blah, blah. There is NOTHING PROFESSIONAL about working under the conditions we are working under, and nothing professional about not have a drop of control over the direction that nursing is headed for in the future. And we will continue to be paid pittances for our skill and education.

Our professional practice is rolled into the housekeeping, room rate, and the complentary roll of toilet paper. No wonder we have a hard time determing our professional worth. We

need to bill for our professional services like RT, PT, OT, etc, and have our name on the bill for patients and insurance companies to see in black and white!

CALL NNOC, and immediately start a union drive, and go the mile and vote, "YES". If nurses continue to remain largely unionized and invisible, we can kiss the nursing profession goodbye. The PTB are finding more and newer ways to have unlicensed personal, take over our professional practice. And we are powerless to stop it.

There are NO unlicensed teachers aids teaching your kids in Kindergarten, are there? Why not? Because teachers belong to powerful unions, and have the power to prevent the deskilling of their profession. Yet, no one ever died because they could not do long division, or diagram a sentence, have they? Then why do nurses, whose professional practice helps prevent unnecessary dealths and suffering, have hs dropouts, taking over our professional practice?

Because nurses have been intimidated and threatened to stay non unionized, prevents us from having any power, and leaves us helpless to stop the workplace abuses that have continued into the 21st Century. And it will not stop until we do.

JMHO and my NY $0.02

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN(ret)

Somewhere in the PACNW

Prevent cuts to overworked nurses by signing this form & Spread the word!

http://www.change.org/petitions/orlando-health-stop-nightshift-differential-cuts

They cut the pay and benefits of those who work the hardest at hospitals and yet continue to create and hire upper level management positions with titles that would confuse even the most intelligent people. I am not sure what the motivation is to continue to hire more and more costly management personnel. I think that none of them know what they are doing and they hope if they continue to hire more eggheads that someone will eventually know what to do. In the meantime, employees who actually care for the patients are very unhappy and of course it is reflected in the customer satisfaction scores. So, let's see what a person with common sense would do. Cut your management staff sufficiently to allow for the bedside employees to be paid fairly for what they do and quit making up new titles and hiring newly created management jobs. Enough is enough. Oh, and also quit hiring high priced consultants. Didn't you administrators go to school to learn how to run a hospital. Quit hiring consultants to do your jobs.

Read at change.org site that word is that they may force day shift to work nights, another round of cuts coming for day shift and pharm and they are going after health insurance in november. That's crazy.... red flags everywhere. They only need 200 or so more signatures.

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