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  1. An RN's thoughts on the health care law

    Ludlow replied to RN4MERCY's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    tntrn, most responsible people want to pay their way. You have safe water to drink, electricity that comes into your house, roads that get you from your home to work and play, a safe community to live...

  2. An RN's thoughts on the health care law

    Ludlow replied to RN4MERCY's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    tntrn, On second look I see you might be talking about the tax on insurance plans if they cost more than $10,200/yr per single or 27,500/yr per family. I agree there, that sucks and is a stupid way to...

  3. An RN's thoughts on the health care law

    Ludlow replied to RN4MERCY's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    tntrn, what are the 'higher taxes' you're refering to? If you have insurance and like it you can keep it. If you refuse to get insurance, you will be fined. The fine was described by Justice John...

  4. New national nurses union forms

    Ludlow replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I think National Nurses United is a great idea! Nurses across the country see how smart it is to have nurse to patient ratios that are based on nursing judgement not the hospital's bottom line. I work...

  5. An RN's thoughts on the health care law

    Ludlow replied to RN4MERCY's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thanks for this clear explanation of where we're at in the health care coverage world. The sooner we get to Medicare for All the happier I'll

  6. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Reality is that in order to push for laws that prohibit bad practices, you have to be organized and united; like a union. I know people who say, "I have my voice, one voice. I speak out and get what I...

  7. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    In the case of striking for better, safer patient care, when you cross the picket line you make the statement that you are endorsing the hospital's unsafe staffing and unsafe patient conditions. Not a...

  8. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    we now face national hospital chains and multinational corporations. we still need the strength of the many to protect

  9. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I appreciate your history and struggle, Lynnie. Thanks for putting it out there. I would just like to remind us all that we have overtime pay and vacation pay and the concept of a weekend and health...

  10. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Dragging out and delaying a first contract is bad faith bargaining. It's illegal. Hospitals do it all the time. In doing so they are just showing their true colors. They are not on our side or even on...

  11. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    In the ICU we've had the mandated ratios of at least 2 patients:1nurse since the 1970s in California. Yet I have often just had one patient and at times I have cared for one patient who needed 2...

  12. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Nothing in the California ratios is meant to limit it to the specified number, richer staffing is meant to happen if the patient's care needs dictate it. Now, say, if in the ICU the ratios varied by...

  13. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    More unions = safer working conditions and safer patients. The Massey mine disaster and the BP oil vulcano-spewing-oil-into-the-Gulf-of-Mexico disaster (both needlessly killing workers) are the...

  14. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    That's absolutely

  15. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I don't EVER want to work at a non-union hospital again. Glad for my contract. Glad for my protections. Glad for my benefits and

  16. Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

    Ludlow replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Gomberg, CEO of Temple said What??? "She says the hospital's policy is only that employees not on strike can't join the nurses' picket line." How can a hospital CEO or policy tell me that I can't...

  17. Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

    Ludlow replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    No, political policies like NAFTA drove manufacturing jobs from this country. In 2002 I was working in a Tenet, non-union hospital. A union hospital in our county got a step pay system through...

  18. Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

    Ludlow replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I used to work at a hospital that had a neurosurgeon that performed unnecessary surgeries and at times was too tired to stay awake during surgery. Nurses tried to tell administration that he was...

  19. Making Patient Advocacy Real

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    True, but my experience is that with a strong union behind you like the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee you have more power to make the

  20. Employee Free Choice Act Passes House

    Ludlow replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Wow, just like the current Republican administration, when you don't have a legitimate argument you resort to fear. As long as you don't corner me in the lady's bathroom, I think we're all independent...

  21. Was that legal?

    Ludlow replied to UM Review RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Support the Employee Free Choice

  22. To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    Ludlow replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I vote always and ever to

  23. SEIU raid on CNA NNOC nurses in Chicago

    Ludlow replied to JimmyHiggins's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    RNs want to do what is best for their patients. CNA/NNOC helps give you support and 'has your back' so that you can turn the tide when the corporation or the government wants to put profits or power...

  24. To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    Ludlow replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I transferred from a mostly non-unionized area of California (Orange County) to a high density area (San Francisco where 80% of the hospitals are unionized) and now make 50% more (by the way the cost...

  25. To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    Ludlow replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    It is true that the author of the mentioned article is rabidly anti-union, has actively worked with union-busting groups to thwart organizing, and so is tainted no matter her claim to give you both...