Kuryakyn

Why didn't I need a union??? Because I wouldn't want to keep working for an employer who would treat their employees that way. I don't want some entity to come in and "try" to force their cooperation especially if I'm having to pay for the service. I moved myself and my family and now work in a great institution free of any union. As far as clinical ladders and loyalty go, those are concepts that protect the lazy from losing their jobs. I personally prefer performance based raises. A nurse shouldn't get a raise simply because they stayed in their current position for another year! I get education reimbursement without a union and always have, so I don't see the need there either. If being union means paying to work, possibility of striking, senority based system, having my dues support political parties, no thanks, I'll pass. With regard to a viable option to unions, just say no! You all are so blinded by union rhetoric that you can't seem to see any other way of making change other than to pay soem organization to try and do it for you. If unions were as great as they are portrayed here, there would be far more nurses in unions than we have currently........

Why would it never happen??

Nurses that, "cast off the yoke of unionization", are no longer nurses. They were long ago let go from the hospitals where they work. Lindarn, No, these nurses are now in RTW states where they dont have to worry about such bs as unions.

The option of moving jobs is always there. One does what one has to in order to care for theirselves and family. I wouldn't hesitate to leave a hospital like the one in the article. How much was their pay cut? How much had the union inflated their pay? I left the first hospital I worked at after nursing school due to the incoming new nurses making more than i was after 3 yrs of employment. I left the hospital and moved 3 hrs north for another job with family in tow. Love where i am now and never had to go on strike or pay dues. TO CHICO; Its quite intersting how you always like to indicate that an anti union nurse on this forum is a spy or otherwise. Not now nor ever have i been anything other than a RN. Not a schill or spy. I work in a RTW state that has very minimal union influence in the healthcare arena and will probably continue that way. Unions aren't the only answer. Unions are for automatons who like others to speak for them and also pay them to do it!

The con side of unions is that they protect the lazy with their senority rights, unless you are unionized in a RTW state you have to pay dues, there is a great chance of having to abandon your patients during a strike or face the music from colleagues, your dues are used to finance political campaigns regardless of your own political views(most if not all unions vote Democrat), boss rose of the cna makes about $200K/yrly courtesy of You!, and they're not needed. Just say No to unions and Yes to RTW!!!!!

Where I work the NPs start at about $86K and it goes up from there. 6 figures is very easy to acquire.

I will never allow a physician to yell at me or anyone else in the vicinity. I have had better success with getting up in their faces and letting them know this isnt acceptable. Has happend to me once in 15yrs.

I lived in Tyler for many years and worked at Mother's for 3 years. The town is great as is the area. The hospital is great to work for and had no bad experiences there. I left Tyler for the opportunity to do peds crit care. Good luck

Absolutely! Someone has to care for the patients that have been abandoned by the striking nurses. Its the nurses who strike that should be singled out by their colleagues. These are unprofessional individuals who put money before patients. I personally think any nurse who strikes should be summarily fired just like the ATC goons who struck! This is not about solidarity as they would have you think nor is it about patient safety but it is about the almighty dollar and that idiot boss rose. Unions have far outlived their usefulness and need to go the way of the dinosaur!

"The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry...This is for us...This is for us when our government becomes tyrannical..." --Sharron Angle This is a problem, why???

So in 15yrs your organization has managed to unionize 5% of RNs and this membership has quadrupled in that time? Fabulous! So in another 15yrs you might actually have 10% of us unionized? Your numbers definitely show that nurses are indeed excited about your union, Not!!! Good lord you have the nurses running in droves to unionize:yeah:

Union sympathizers would have you think that no self respecting RN would avoid a union, but that's not the facts! They want you to believe that other interests are coming here to express their views, sorry but that's total BS. If nurses thought being in a union was so fabulous, they would be running to boss rose with their wallets open just begging to pay union dues, but that isn't the case.... Check your facts closely before signing that union card...you could be signing your voice away!

As usual, the cna is again about to have their nurses at the childrens hospital in Oakland walk out and abandon patients over an increase in insurance premiums! The nurses at this particular hospital make an average of $136,000 yearly with 85% of their insurance premiums taken care of by the hospital. This is the mindset of the cna/nnu....GREED! So now they abandon ill children who need them to get better insurance premiums? This isn't about management as they would have you believe, this is about putting more money in their fearless leader boss rose's pocket. She already makes over $200K yearly! Don't let the pro unionists have you believe that this is anything other than about the almighty dollar. All this does is make the unionized nurses look just as greedy as boss rose and even worse to the general public. Cast off the yoke of unionization and learn to speak and act for yourselves. No one should have to pay to have a job! No one should be subjected to senority style pay raises! And nobody, I mean nobody should be subjected to nurses abandoning their patients over insurance premiums or anything else! Be an individual not a union automaton!!