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

[skyflight]

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.

[applewhitern, BSN, RN]

Around my neck of the woods, we don't get anywhere near that much differential to start with. Our nightshift is $3 bucks per hour, and none extra for weekends or holidays.

[PMFB-RN, RN]

I will sign the petition but it's a waste of time. The nurses at that hospital MUST simply refuse to work. Every nurse experiencing a pay must give notice that without night diff they will no longer work nights and that without weekend diff they will no longer work weekends. It's a simple breach of contract. The nurses where hired to do nights and weekend at a certain rate. The hospital has chosen not to honor it's side of the bargain. Immediately call your nurse managers at tell them that as soon as the pay cuts take effect they will no longer be coming in to work nights and weekends.

That is the ONLY thing that will get your pay restored.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

They need a Union....I was never keen on collective bargaining.....but I am now.

[caroladybelle, BSN, RN]

They need a Union....I was never keen on collective bargaining.....but I am now.

This is Florida. Few hospitals have unions and the few that do, do almost nothing to help the nurses. I left one of the few that had a union because the extremely poor conditions.

Florida has virtually always paid poorly and had dangerously poor ratios, nasty MDs. There was an old thread called the Nursing Salary Hall of Shame that Florida won hands down.

And with Rick Scott as governor (former executive of HCA, took the 5th repeatedly on HCA's massive Medicare fraud case), you can guarantee he will not permit unions or mandated ratios or decent pay rates for nurses to gain a major foothold in his state.

[Mulan]

I will sign the petition but it's a waste of time. The nurses at that hospital MUST simply refuse to work. Every nurse experiencing a pay must give notice that without night diff they will no longer work nights and that without weekend diff they will no longer work weekends. It's a simple breach of contract. The nurses where hired to do nights and weekend at a certain rate. The hospital has chosen not to honor it's side of the bargain. Immediately call your nurse managers at tell them that as soon as the pay cuts take effect they will no longer be coming in to work nights and weekends.

That is the ONLY thing that will get your pay restored.

It will probably get them all fired too.

[~PedsRN~, BSN, RN]

Ridiculous.

[Kidrn911]

Scary

[dansamy]

It will probably get them all fired too.

Not just fired, but blacklisted on the "do not rehire" list.

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[Ruas61, BSN, RN]

Yeah, it is the beginning of the end of decency. Servitude here we come.

[elprup, BSN, RN]

Not just fired, but blacklisted on the "do not rehire" list.

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So what should they do? I sucks all the way around.

[dansamy]

So what should they do? I sucks all the way around.

If they (individually) don't like it or agree with it, put in their notice & leave. Unfortunately, it's REALLY hard here in the Deep South to unionize.

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[lindarn]

And has ANYONE THOUGHT TO CALL THE NNOC AND UNIONIZE??!! THAT is the ONLY THING THAT WILL STOP NURSES FROM BEING VICTIMIZED LIKE THEY ARE!

Quit being the Martyr Marys that nurse always are, take the bull by the horn and go to it. Nurses have been slow to unionize, and that is why we are always being taken advantage of. There is NO reason for it.

ALL of the hospital administors, and management, have contracts!! Why don't the worker bees, who really need it, get taken for a ride.

Start having rallies in very public places, invite the news stations, CNN, local papers, etc. Provide free BP checks, Health screenings for kids, and older people, Diabetic teaching, have ballloons for the kids, fliers, some free, inexpensive give aways, like packs of kleenex, etc. The name if the game is to get the public on your side.

Make really big posters, and print the salaries, bennies, etc, of the hospital CEO, administrators, management, and make sure that you make note that not one of these big wigs is taking a pay cut, and it is REALLY THEIR HEALTH CARE THAT IS GOING TO TAKE A BEATING!!

If you are short staffed, don't make excuses- make sure that you tell the patient that management won't allow more nurses or aide, so their mother will just have to wait for that bedpan, or stay hungry until you can free someone to feed her. Make the patients and visitors feel the cuts!! Nothing will ever change until the public realizes how their care will suffer from deliberate staffing shortages!

JMHO and my NY $0.02

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN (ret)

Somewhere in the PACNW