Things are going downhill quickly for RNs in the Birmingham, AL area. We need representation. Please help in answering a quick poll. 1. I dont think there are any Nursing Unions organized in Alabama....
RN4Mercy, Can you please send any good Nursing Union to 'raid', as you say, a few of the hospitals in Birmingham, AL. Like UAB, Cooper Green. They need them. Some of the staff RNs have been placed on...
mmuligan23 Thank you also. We have contacted ASNA and ABN. No help frome the ABN persay...I wouldnt like the idea of being forced to go on a strike either...but I also dont like the idea of an unsafe...
mmulligan23, Thanks for your input. I dont like the idea of having a union...but in certain situations, it's the lesser of the 2 evils. I take it from your comments you would not join a union. I...
I agree, it is not wise to classify RNs as exempt. Nurses need to unify nationally some how, strike nationally. There would be NO hospital functional. I have heard MDs talking of unionizing if the...
Thanks to all who have replied. I do appreciate the valuable info of other RNs. So fare the Labor Board has told us there is nothing we can do...that we can be classified as salary and therefore are...
Huhhhh.....the adminstration is IN on it too...we have been suddenly placed on "salary", we are suddenly referred to as "professionals"... get paid for 40 max.....even if we work 50hrs....still have...