brenda100

Your kidding me right? That is what you got out of what I said. Here is an example of the type of people who are against the people, propaganda. Your telling me the people of Ohio didn't vote in this election. There must be a lot of Union goons in the state of Ohio to vote that law down. Don't forget to spell check my post:monkeydance:

Why do you all think the people in Ohio voted to repeal the governors law to restrict the unions? Because they work for the people who are trying to make a living in the state. Nurses, police, fireman, city workers all the people who make a hugh difference. They were planning to strip them of their hard fought and hard won rights as workers. In at will states they sure can and will fire you for anything or nothing, a paper trail is not hard to put in place if they really want too. And your career as a nurse can be jepordized as the State Boards of Nursing in the interest of protecting the public take their word that whatever they say happened really happened and you have to hire a lawyer and defend yourself at great cost.

@ TEXRN...If management or doctor does not like you, they do keep a paper trail and try to find something good to fire you at but can't unless they do. If that didn't make me sick I would laugh!:rotfl: If management wants to get rid of you and cause you a year of *ell by turning you into the SBN on false claims, they can do it, all they have to do is not investigate and only present what they want to be true and the Board takes the hospital's word as gospel, unless you can afford a lawyer to get to the truth you are sunk. I could and so after a year of fighting I was cleared with the board; at the hospital I am still listed a a not for hire, this is relayed from HR to other employers who do not want to hire me because of this false accusation on my record, when I earn enough money for the lawyer I might be able to get this taken situation taken care of and make them take it off the record, so I know first hand how someone who doesn't care for you can take your career away, in spite of evidence that it was a personal issue not a work issue.

You've got yourself fooled, it's amazing what people can make themselves believe just to justify actions that hurt others. Not the patient, they are shortchanged along with the nurses who care for them on a day to day basis. Even more so durning a strike, especially when the hospital "punishes" the nurses for standing up for themselves buy locking them out. Nurses who strike are not only striking for themselves but for patients and the other nurses in the nation who work hard every day for their families and are under fire everyday in shortstaffed situations for a lot less money; for their risking their families future and their own just to make a living.

@notachargenurse and others...It's great that you have great benefits and bonus' and everything is hunky-dory for you what about your brothers and sisters out there working and paying $1000 a month for insurance, or other ridiculous amounts and not making the wage either. Dam* people there are other people out there besides you. There are so many these days wanting other people to work for a pittance and without benefits just so there are no big bad unions, we can't get it done without them, (no I am not a member of one) I live in an "at will" state and they do "at will" take your job away for any reason they want, (to all the managers...don't try to tell me that "can't" happen, because it can, "at will") all they have to do is create a paper trail, try to stand up against it and your insubordinate, you can't win. Live in that environment for a while. You would appreciate some back-up.

I have tried to answer 3 times and have gotten kicked off each time (divine intervention)? But I do want to reply to your answer, but have to cook dinner, so will try later. Again thank you for your service, you don't make enough, your benefits should never be in question (we are going to have to cut off Congress's healthcare so they can be more empathtic. (you don't have to address that, since they are your bosses, its just IMHO). Just so you know I worked 9 years in surgery with many CRNA's so I do know a little about what you do and some about the rich and deep rooted history. I think I did mention that nurses are a liability to hospitals because they pay us, (they claim) without charging for our services. Always the bottom line never the human. Getting dirty looks, bye.

I believe this could have been avoided had the hospital let the nurses back in and not tried to punish them for striking. It didn't happen on the 1st day of the strike there is no way to blame the strikers for "leaving their patients". The hospital thought they were being smart hiring them for 5 days when the strike was known to be a one day deal. They out thought themselves. They are not nurses they are bean counters. I think they may lose a few beans over this one, or the small firm in AL will be held accountable and put out of business, I do not think the hospital needs to get off scott free. But the erosion of workers rights is continuing as many wish them too. Why anybody would want anyone else to work without benefits for a pittance is beyond me. Except of course for owners and CEO's, digs into the bonus, cars, big boats, and luxury vacations. I don't care if anyone makes a big salary or is successful, so get off that soapbox, (just trying to head it off at the pass). But when they do it at the expense of helpless or innocent people just trying to live or make a living I get a little steamed.

People make mistakes just like you can, especially in spelling misstakes. No one calls anyone a scab unless they cross a picket line, a very unflattering term but...it is the term used historically. They are not calling all agency nurses scabs. My heart :redbeathe goes out to the young 23 year old nurse who had been promised big bucks to go into a situation she probably was not prepared for regardless of "credentials" if you don't have orientation and experience under your belt you probably are not prepared for this type of high pressure situation (added pressure of a strike).

OK, I'm sorry too, if I sounded rude.

I was using someone else's quote. I don't care what it had to do with. I am not even sure why you e-mailed me about this?

I say BS to 138K "Sutter Quotes" I do not live anywhere near there or work in a unionized hospital, but I know this is BS. Don't whine about your salary you chose it, isn't that what you tell someone else. Suck it up and be happy with what you have? Do you have housing on base? Medical care taken care of by the US military? By the way thanks for your service, really mean that.

Another thumbs down to the anesthesia nurse. UNION! I would guess you know a lot about the Greeks and the rise of Civilization!

It certainly is not that they don't want their jobs. How much do you make? What benefits do you have? Rude right, but you are in a speciality area where you can negociate with employers because you save them money. We just save lives on a med/sug floor and are looked at as a liability. We don't have an airway in with monitors hooked up to monitor every lifesign with an anesthesiologist backing us up and a surgeon right in the room with us. to your comment. It should be about right and wrong. That is what is wrong with the world right now.

"However, I am now seriously questioning my right to strike and if indeed I have placed my pts in danger. Oncology is too intense of a practice to view nurses as interchangable commodities." This is why you are striking.

Just a quick note to tell you how much I enjoyed the story. It's almost 3 in the morning and I needed that laugh before I could sleep. Thanks.