sunshinepsychRN

Anybody have new updates on the UHS takeovers at their facilities, good or not so good? Also, out of curiosity please let me know if your facility is unionized?

@Chico David, you seem pretty knowledgeable, and I appreciate your input, I have another question. My hospital has been bought out by UHS, a big fortune 500 company. They have multiple hospitals all over the country, some of which are unionized, does that in itself make it any easier to try and introduce a union here? I have already reached out to NNU, I sent an email to them for some guidance, still awaiting a reply, do you have personal experience with them?

@8mpg, we have tried putting together councils to stand up for ouselves, and the admins basically pacify us and then continue to do what they want and tell us thats just the way it is. I respect your opinion on union maybe not being the way to go, but I feel helpless to change things. These are a great bunch of nurses I work with and I'm not ready to bail yet. @MunoRN, I never really understood what my peers meant by the right to work state, I was led to believe that an employer can pretty much terminate you at will. Thanks for clarifying. I guess I'm more concerned about trying to get them to hear us, but the turnover rate speaks volumes and their attitudes have been easy come easy go, nurses are easily replaced here.

I relocated to NC a few years ago from up north, and while I love it here, I am amazed and appalled by what some of these admins. can get away with in these hospitals. I have been reminded time and again that this is a "right to work" state and pretty much anything can be a reason to be terminated. I have witnessed peers that were "too verbal" be targeted and later fired for seemingly insignificant things. We have had our schedules changed multiple times without any input or regard from the nurses (and of course reminded if we don't like it we could go else where), turnover rate is high, (the Rn with the most seniority on my unit has only been there about 3 years) and staffing ratio is ridiculous, I could go on and on. Having come from a state with a union to fight for us nurses, I would love any and all input from anybody who knows anything about NC and why we have no unions here, as well as any states that have started there own unions. Can I legally be fired if I try to organize a union in my hospital? Could really use some input and guidance here. I love what I do, and I love my pts, I just wish we had a voice and were treated like professionals.