I'm posting this fast, and don't yet have all the details, but here is what I do know:
CNA just won a representation election for the RNs at Cypress Fairbanks Hospital, a part of the Tenet chain in Houston Texas.
Other than a small number of RNs employed by the federal government, this represents the first unionized nurses in the entire state a very tough organizing environment. It is the first major fruits of a three year statewide campaign.
The election was run under an organizing agreement won at the bargaining table by Tenet nurses in California.
Don't yet have numbers or other details, will make a second post when I do. I've met some of these Texas nurses and they are just the greatest. This is only the first of many organizing victories to come in this state.
The nnu has managed to unionize ONE facility in Texas and now you expect that Texas nurses will fall in line and unionize? Are you kidding? Good Luck in your future organizations in our great state!
The nnu has managed to unionize ONE facility in Texas and now you expect that Texas nurses will fall in line and unionize? Are you kidding? Good Luck in your future organizations in our great state!
Actually, I do - check back in a few months and we'll see who's right. Texas nurses are smart enough to know that their work and their skills are being undervalued and that only by standing together in a UNION can they get the wages, benefits, protections and working conditions they deserve. And they have the courage to stand up the the intimidation and do it.
I think for the most part you're right, Texas nurses are smart, but I wouldn't say that these nurses used their heads in voting the union into their facility. I certainly don't expect a wildfire of unionizing to follow as you suggest., but I have been wrong MANY times before.....
And tonight, one more group of Texas nurses go union - Rio Grande Medical Center in McAllen. Nurses voted to join NNOC. More expected soon - very soon.
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classicdame, MSN, EdD
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Not this Texas nurse. I would not work in a union hospital. Period.