Chico David

Chico David BSN, RN

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  1. Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

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

    $131,000 divide by 1000 is $1300 per person, I DO find that "out of bounds" for entertaining volunteers in any environment. Gosh, if your math skills are any indication of the quality of your...

  2. Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

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

    I'm not an employee, but am a volunteer board member who votes to approve those salaries and has an opportunity to see how hard those people work for what they earn. So I will respond to this....

  3. Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

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

    You keep repeating that about your right of free speech as if someone had questioned that right. It appears lately that in the world many conservatives live in, anyone who questions or criticizes...

  4. Embezzlement: Nurse union chief pleads guilty

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

    You are reading more into what I said than is there. I simply stated an observed fact that every time we get into a fight with a powerful interest, some new people seem to magically show up on this...

  5. Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

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

    I'll point out that the original poster started off with vicious insults against the character of nurses who support unions. My comment on that fact seems pretty mild in comparison. Beyond that,I'll...

  6. What can we expect while negotiating our first Union Contract?

    Chico David replied to magg1107's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I just really want to second the idea that maximum participation is the key. You have nurses from your own hospital there on the bagaining team and they will be making efforts to keep in touch with...

  7. Embezzlement: Nurse union chief pleads guilty

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

    It's just an observation in general, but our union, by standing up resolutely for the interests of nurses and patients, tends to anger a lot of very rich and powerful interests. Every time we get...

  8. Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

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

    One could say where it came from in terminology not allowed on this site, so let's just say it's largely imaginary. Whitman is trying to promote the fiction that nurses don't support our leadership...

  9. Still more union nurses in Texas!

    Chico David replied to Chico David's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I don't really know the local conditions well enough to comment on the state of the nurses there or how united they are. I remember the votes as havng been fairly strong, which is a good sign. The...

  10. The right to refuse has so many interpretations

    Chico David replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    I could not agree more. There is a balance to be struck in which we may try to persuade and problem solve to encourage people to do what we think is good for their health. But we are their nurses...

  11. Still more union nurses in Texas!

    Chico David replied to Chico David's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    It's all a matter of negotiation. Not likely to go clear up to California level wages in one jump, especially in a difficult economy when the nurses have a little less leverage than usual. But the...

  12. Extended MN Nurses Strike Averted

    Chico David replied to Intern67's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    And without the threat of a strike the nurses would have ended up with big pension cuts and even worse staffing language. It's true the nurses did not make the gains they hoped to make, but in the...

  13. how old were you when you realized you weren't going to make real money as a nurse

    Chico David replied to pilotstudentnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Various thoughts: The regional disparities among nurse wages have far more to do with rates of unionization than they do with relative cost of living. Just a few years ago, the nurse wages in Los...

  14. Largest Nurses Strike in US History - Replacement Nurses Arrive - Your opinion

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

    Agreed. As was the case at Temple in Philadephia, management came to the table wanting major take-aways from nurses, hoping to use the bad economic climate as an opportunity to roll back past gains....

  15. Potential MN Nurses Strike?

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

    We surely do need to get staffing right, but the 47 million part is not quite correct. It would be true if we had really done health reform right, like most of the rest of the world does it. New...

  16. Largest Nurses Strike in US History - Replacement Nurses Arrive - Your opinion

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

    I have only third-hand information and no detail, but have the impression that the result was largely a wash - a maintaining of the status quo in most respects. The nurses did not acheive the...

  17. Largest Nurses Strike in US History - Replacement Nurses Arrive - Your opinion

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

    I want to commend you on the sophistication of your thinking. I have a feeling you are going to make a very good nurse indeed. One of my dearest friends long ago came out of nursing school, was...

  18. Potential MN Nurses Strike?

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

    Filing a strike notice, while certainly real, is one more negotiating tool. The most intense negotiations usually happen after the filing of such a notice. Helps to concentrate the mind wonderfully,...

  19. Largest Nurses Strike in US History - Replacement Nurses Arrive - Your opinion

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

    Sorry, but wrong - unions are completely different. Now not all unions are equal - some are effective and democratic, others are very much less so. But no union is a business, no union makes a...

  20. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

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

    I don't remember the statistics, but it's not uncommon at all that a union wins an election but is unable to apply enough pressure to get a contract. However that almost never happens with...

  21. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

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

    It's true - for the moment, but I think not much longer - that there is not a contract there. The hospital stalled the negotiations along for long enough that they were able to call for a new vote,...

  22. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

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

    Only one form of organized action has ever worked to make things better for workers: unions. It may be theoretically possible to use other vehicles to accomplish that goal, but it's never happened in...

  23. Cath Lab RN

    Chico David replied to NWGM1234's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a cath lab nurse, but as a cardiac patient educator, I work closely with cath lab nurses. And as a union steward, I hear from them when they have a complaint about their jobs. Our cath lab...

  24. How many times do you try to start an IV before calling in reinforcements?

    Chico David replied to belgarion's topic in General Nursing

    Most people have come up with pretty similar answers here: in the range of 2-3 tries. Our hospital has a written policy of 3 as a max. Which brings me to the point related to your current situation:...

  25. MN nurses strike is over. Now what?

    Chico David replied to CNL2B's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Im part of a sister union, but not directly involved in this one. I can offer some thoughts from our past experience with one-day strikes: Unlike an open-ended strike, the point of a one-day strike is...