California Nurses Association may be targeting University of Chicago after Cook County win
If there's a campaign map on the wall at the Oakland, Calif., headquarters of the California Nurses Association, the Chicago area must be ground zero.
Since winning away Cook County's 1,800 nurses from the Illinois Nurses Association, the independent union has linked with nurses at more than 20 Chicago-area hospitals with the goal of organizing a handful of them, union officials say.
One possible target is the University of Chicago Hospitals, where workers from the national organizing arm of the California Nurses have been talking with nurses.
They say they are only helping the 1,300 University of Chicago nurses, who belong to the Illinois Nurses Association. But they do not rule out an eventual organizing drive like the one they successfully staged at Cook County.
The situation is "reminiscent" of what happened with Cook County's nurses, confirmed Fernando Losada, head of Midwest operations for the National Nurses Organizing Committee, the national arm for the California Nurses Association.
Thanks for the links. I am able to use some of that info. I am currently on union leave from my hospital. We are currently fighting a decert campaign in our tech unit. One of the pieces of letters put out by ?management? is that nonunion hospital workers make more money then union workers. In our hospital and with our contract, you do not have to join either of the union units, but you still have there protection and are entitled to any benefits we negotiate in our contracts.
Did they, have they ...tried to minimalize the role of lvns in the state with practice limitations... then cite the linability of LVNs to operate at a capacity that actually assists the RN...?
I KNOW for a fact that they sued the BVNPT to keep LVNs from hanging IV meds for dialysis patients, in a controlled enviroment of the clinic.
I mean LVNs here can not even hang IVPB meds... gee, wonder what kind of impact that had on RN salaries here in Cali?
As an LVN ... if you have a gripe with CNA, then I don't blame you. But CNA represents RN's, not LVN's. I wouldn't expect them to look out for LVN's best interests. If LVN's like yourself have a problem with it then you need to form your own organization.
As an LVN ... if you have a gripe with CNA, then I don't blame you. But CNA represents RN's, not LVN's. I wouldn't expect them to look out for LVN's best interests. If LVN's like yourself have a problem with it then you need to form your own organization.
Well...
My wife is a BSN...
I am an LVN...
The thing is, the CNA in particular, screws over LVNs in their attempts to make RNs more "valuable". Is that something that RNs want to do? I doubt it.
Houses on my block are selling for about thirty times what we paid. I was an LVN and my husband earned minimum wage part of the time we were paying it off.
Now I can bike to the beach in ten minutes and have NO house payment.
Wrong! CA bay area houses will continue to climb. The rate of the climb slows periodically but the price never goes down.
I can't agree with you on this one. The Bay Area and San Diego is so expensive, and with interest rates climbing, there's bound to be a correction of some kind. Probably somewhere between 20-40 percent, like there was in the early '90s.
KB Homes, which is southern California's biggest builder, just announced a drop in their numbers. So, I think that's a pretty good indicator that we're in for a downturn of some kind.
Still ... even with a correction, that still leaves lots of equity for people who didn't buy at the peak of the market. I have $150,000 of equity in my house right now but, even with a downturn, I'll still probably have $100,000 in equity so ... I'm not complaining, especially since I bought my home only two years ago.
The market certainly isn't going to crash like internet stocks did. The value of California homes may drop somewhat but, it certainly won't go to zero.
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I can't agree with you on this one. The Bay Area and San Diego is so expensive, and with interest rates climbing, there's bound to be a correction of some kind. Probably somewhere between 20-40 percent, like there was in the early '90s.
KB Homes, which is southern California's biggest builder, just announced a drop in their numbers. So, I think that's a pretty good indicator that we're in for a downturn of some kind.
Still ... even with a correction, that still leaves lots of equity for people who didn't buy at the peak of the market. I have $150,000 of equity in my house right now but, even with a downturn, I'll still probably have $100,000 in equity so ... I'm not complaining, especially since I bought my home only two years ago.
The market certainly isn't going to crash like internet stocks did. The value of California homes may drop somewhat but, it certainly won't go to zero.
But it will still benefit us in the long run. We bought our first house in 1992, pretty close to the bottom of the market. When we sold it ten years later, it had close to tripled in value. We put those gains into buying this, much more expensive, house four years ago. It is now worth over double what we paid for it. If there is a 30% correction, we will sell this house, take our gains and buy a more valuable piece of property at that reduced rate and sit around and wait for the values to go back up. They always do. There hasn't been a housing bust in the history of California that lasted.
.CNAs mission is to protect RN's, PERIOD. CNA is "screwing" MD's also. It is not the fault of CNA that MD's & others have not been able to organize.
But see, they are being disingenious
The nursing shortage is critical! Ratios are a must!!!!
(*nevermind the fact that we have nearly eliminated any usefulness that an LVN may have contributed, thereby exacerbating the nursing shortage, and increasing "the value of RNs")
The thing is, the CNA in particular, screws over LVNs in their attempts to make RNs more "valuable". Is that something that RNs want to do? I doubt it.
Personally, as an RN, this doesn't concern me at all. I care about my working conditions, I don't care about the LVN job market. I work in a critical care area and prefer primary nursing with an all RN staff to team nursing where I have to "cover" an LVNs patients.
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Thanks for the links. I am able to use some of that info. I am currently on union leave from my hospital. We are currently fighting a decert campaign in our tech unit. One of the pieces of letters put out by ?management? is that nonunion hospital workers make more money then union workers. In our hospital and with our contract, you do not have to join either of the union units, but you still have there protection and are entitled to any benefits we negotiate in our contracts.
Proud to be a union nurse
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