Cleveland Clinic destroys wages

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As of today 11/12/01, the Cleveland Clinic has utilized big business tactics to BUST nursing wages.They have brought in a large ammount of foreign nurses and told the agency to take a 7-15 dollar an hour cut or they would not be used All agencies complied. All other local hospitals are cutting wages by 5-10 dollars an hour and mandating a minimum of 16 hours mandatory overtime or you are terminated. The local paper The plain Dealer is reporting with a slant to sympathy for the poor hospitals and blaming it all on the nurses. Both the shortage and the cost of healthcare. This is one of the grimmist days for nursing in all of history. Im sure all other hospitals will be quick to jump on this band wagon BRACE YOURSELF FOR HUGE PAYCUTS! I am so SAD!

Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

Ah , the wonderful, world class care CCF....I wouldn't work there if they tripled my salary! When they opened their NICU we had a big exit from our unit to there..and they are now finding out that it isn't a great place to work...sure, the money sounds awesome, but you pay out the butt for insurance and such....$40 to park blocks away. No thanks. And then they bring in the Filipino nurses.

The CCF will always do what it wants and there is nothing anyone can do about it. They will tell your right up front..don't like it...there is the door, see ya later. They will never unionize either. The unit managers have very little input into hiring also...their personnel department handles that. Some of the units even have those little tracking things on the ID badges so that people know where you are all the time. Again, no thanks. I think that it is easy for us to say do this and do that...but that place is an entity into itself. Where else would ask you to kindly donate one of your PTO days back to the institute so that they can better fund their big buildings and buying of out parcels for clinics? You better believe they did. My DH works there and he tells me this stuff...he isn't a nurse and he said there is no way he would ever recommend a nurse to go there.

They opened their supposed NICU without enough staff to run it...they couldn't get docs in there. And we used to get the transports from there...that place is a walking malpractice heaven for deliveries...every child we received from them was neurologically damaged in one way or another. Devastatingly most of the time. They have no right to be doing high risk deliveries over there...they were supposed to be shipping the moms to where I work...but they didn't because...hey we're CCF and we can do what we want. They are always getting fined and things from the State, government, whatever...and they don't care. The magic of money....the power of it. Too many political ties....things will NEVER change there. As for the pay cuts for agency...well...just be glad it wasn't regular staff.

Sorry for the rant, but that place...you have to know it to appreciate it..

:p :rolleyes:

There is no facility where things cant change.

Things can change anywhere.....if the nurses are willing to do what it takes to make it happen.

Such a shame that we allow places like this to get away with all that BS.

Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

jt...the place won't change...like I said...they tell you, well there is the door...and the nurses there consider it a privledge to work there for some reason or another...no thanks! Like I said...they have so many ties with so many places, especially out of the country contributions, that they will always do what they please there. Ick.

thats why the place wont change. Doesnt it just boggle the mind. How people can think that being treated the way you described this place treats them & they think this is a priviledge.

It gives me a headache just trying to figure it out

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