NLRB set to trim union's organizing

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Watch out "charge nurses".. :uhoh3:

Update Fri......... http://www.calnurse.org/assets/pdf/rn_alert_kyriver_060506-pdf.pdf :barf01:

Update Thur.06/15 http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060613-043125-6408r :smiley_ab

Specializes in PACU, ED.

This new link seems to be a different topic. It's about what unions are doing to change the rules.

Thanks for the update! I didn't know the unions were trying to change the rules.

The bill would require employers to recognize a union after a majority of workers sign cards authorizing union representation. If passed it would make obsolete the conventional secret ballots run by the National Labor Relations Board.

The bill "supports a back-door organizing method called 'card check' designed to circumvent traditional secret ballot elections," said the center's Richard Berman.

So if this passed they could use postcards to try to get unions passed. Sounds like a way to confuse folks rather than get a vote in an upfront manner. Sort of like the cards where you sign up for a chance to win a car or two free weeks of workouts but the fine print signs you up for much more. At the very least it violates our right to secret ballot which is honored in all public elections.

Unfortunately, our government has been captured by people who believe that it is governments role to help corporations pay less to employees.

GO UNION!

…At the request of hospital and nursing home industry employers, the NLRB, which is now stacked with anti-union board members appointed by the Bush Administration, are posed to make a ruling that thousands of RNs are “supervisors” because they make clinical assignments to other staff. Under federal labor supervisors are not eligible to join unions…. LVNs too!

… CNA will be sponsoring protest rallies at federal offices on Tuesday, July 11 in Los Angeles and Oakland….

http://www.calnurse.org/media-center/press-releases/2006/june/page.jsp?itemID=27845020&print=t

I’ll be there with colleagues and a retired nurse.

Just when the last thing American's workers need is another enconomic kick in the groin..... :barf01: :barf01: http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2006/06/workers_rights.html

Specializes in Psych.

None of this suprises me. And much of this is the American people reaping what they have sewn. The US, the Walmart Nation, is so far behind most of the developed world it isn't funny. Just look at poverty, high infant mortality rates and lack of public healthcare (just a few examples). I constantly read posts on this site about people who brag that they don't take their breaks, who say they skip meals and don't have time to go to the toilet. How can anybody be fit to care for other people when they ignore their own basic needs? Makes no sense to me. I work agency in hospitals now that are very strongly unionized and people knowingly break the LAW --not just their union contracts -- to the benefit of a wealthy corporation. People willfully risk their livelihood, CRAZY. Believe me, they will be hung out to dry if the excrement ever hits the fan.

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More than 700 CNA RNs, joined by other union supporters, marched in downtown Oakland Tuesday, July 11 outside the Federal Building to protest a pending federal labor board ruling that could re-classify hundreds of thousands of RNs as "supervisors" curbing their right to union representation and to have a strong effective voice for patient advocacy. Hundreds more demonstrated in Los Angeles and Bangor, Maine. Other protests are being held across the nation, including Thursday, July 13 in Chicago and Washington, D.C.

http://www.calnurses.org/

http://kcbs.com/pages/55449.php

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=07-11-06&storyID=24599

http://publicbroadcasting.net/kpbs/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=939341&sectionID=1

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060710/BUSINESS/60710010/1029/BUSINESS

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/07/11/labor_fears_ruling_could_hurt_efforts_to_organize/

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/10/18286828.php

Expected labor ruling draws nurses' protest

Union workers in Oakland, Los Angeles, predict federal agency will weaken rights

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/07/12/BUGR7JTFIT1.DTL

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