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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 in protected by police and fire fighters. Every w...

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 get revenue. It was a concession to republicans. ...

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 Roberts as a tax. Most taxes are added to things we bu...

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 in CA and have had so many travelers tell me that...

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 be.

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 need. I don't want and don't need a union like CN...

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 good place to be for a patient advocate.

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

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 insurance benefits and retirement benefits and no ...

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 the side of our patients. They are on their share...

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 nurses. Ratios are the floor and we staff richer if pat...

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 one patient, that would be a big deal. And a big pr...

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 results of fewer workers having the power that a union ...

That's absolutely fabulous!

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 pay.

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 join in with a picket line on my own time???? That is...

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 bargaining instead of merit pay. Nurses with 20 and 30 y...

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 unsafe, but administration didn't listen. The hospital ...

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 difference.

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 enough to make up our own minds to join a union o...

Support the Employee Free Choice Act!

I vote always and ever to unionize.

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 above patient care, safety and patient interests. H...

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 of living difference between the 2 areas is 15%). ...

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 sides. As you said, it is more about why not to unio...