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The topic of unionization has come up,lately, at work, and it got me wondering. So I'm hoping some of you nurses who are currently represented by unions could tell me what union you're with, and how your experience with it has been. I'm ambivalent about the whole idea, but that's a change from being pretty firmly opposed. Any feedback will be appreciated.

my challenge to you is to get involved. if you don't like the way your local runs show up for meetings. organizations are run by the people who show up for meetings.

if we are interested in improving quality of health care unionization correlates positively with quality:

according to professors michael ash and jean ann seago,[color=#333399][4] heart attack recovery rates are higher in hospitals where nurses are unionized than in non-union hospitals.

michael ash and jean ann seago, “the effect of registered nurses' unions on heart-attack mortality,” industrial and labor relations review, vol. 57, no. 3 (apr. 2004), pp. 422-442.

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Hey I'm an LPN that recently relocated form NY to Georgia....I've always belonged to a union being from NY, so this whole " Right to Work State" is a little unnerving...I find that their is better job protection and more respect given to employees when they (admin) understand that they answer to a collective as opposed to an individual...If your union has alot of members there is strength in numbers!!!! Also in NY when one group went on strike other unions showed support by striking with them....A heck of an incentive for the employer to get it right and be fair!!!! I'm liked to stay in the South however what's the farthest down you go before Unionization is eliminated??

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Specializes in Cardiac Critical Care, Trauma, Neuro..
I would write your Congressmen and tell him to support the Employee Free Choice Act...

Your endorsement of the employee free choice act can be posted right here along with the Communist Party USA's resolution:

http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/698/

If the Communists think it's a good thing than by all means............???????:banghead:

Thought provoking!!! :argue::down:

Sherwood

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