Raids on members causing high fever in nurse unions

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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.

Full Story: Raids on members causing high fever in nurse unions [Chicago Tribune,United States]

No, but the CNA will take the money of nurses working in these hositals, and call them members of the CNA. The CNA tells the nurses they will help them when the union they are forced to join will not.

I worked in San Diego, Corona, and Riverside. In San Diego I saw a doctor push a nurse down in a chair. Corona was worst, a MD slammed a phone down on a nurses hand, breaking bones in her hand. The nurse was fired. CNA did not respond when asked. In Riverside I saw a doctor spit in a nurses face. I moved out of California, and will never return.

Did you or anyone else call the police?

No one has the right to assault another person.

The California Nurses Association does not collect dues from nurses unless the nurse is represented by a contract. That nurse fills out an authorization to join.

The CNA neither represents nor collects dues from nurses at any facility in Corona, the VA, the military, nor Southern California Kaiser.

If any nurse is having "dues" collected at any of these facilities please report it to the police, your facility management, and/or the CNA.

Another union once called their nurse union California Nurse Alliance. Now they use Nurse Alliance of California so the initials are no longer "CNA" - http://www.nurseallianceca.org/

Here is a list of all the facilities represented by the California Nurses Association (CNA)

http://www.calnurses.org/facilities-bargaining/

It's a little funny to complain that CNA doesn't fix everything at hospitals that they don't even represent. I think unions are a good thing, but they have limits in what they can do...

While the CNA has done a lot of great things in California I do not agree with their method of growth by getting members from nurses who are already in a union. There are MANY nurses in the US who want to be in a union and would LOVE to have help organizing. It is expensive and hard work to organize a union where there is none. I am angry with the CNA for focusing all their growth efforts on raiding existing unions. I don't think this will help grow the number of organized nurses and that is what needs to happen.

Unions in hospitals can be bought and paid for. Too many nurses think they are getting a great thing, but the truth is, the union is not representing the nurses. Some hospitals in California have picked the union that will represent the nurses, the nurses had no say in who their union would be.

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No doubt, CNA is certainly a shaker and mover in the world of unionism; but, with the number of unorganized facilities around the country, these type of tactics raises concerns about the motives of the CNA..... Is it about protecting the rights of Nurses or is it more about building a biggest union?

If it is a win-win situation, does it matter?

Unions in hospitals can be bought and paid for. Too many nurses think they are getting a great thing, but the truth is, the union is not representing the nurses. Some hospitals in California have picked the union that will represent the nurses, the nurses had no say in who their union would be.

This makes no sense to me at all. If it happened I have no idea which hospital this post could be referring to. A facility in Corona was mentioned in a previous post. Is there a hospital in Corona where the nurses are represented by a union?

I cannot find any mention of any union hospital there.

Starting on page 12 of this link is how getting a union works in my experience:

http://www.calnurses.org/assets/pdf/CNA_101_0704.pdf

Unions in hospitals can be bought and paid for. Too many nurses think they are getting a great thing, but the truth is, the union is not representing the nurses. Some hospitals in California have picked the union that will represent the nurses, the nurses had no say in who their union would be.
This does not make sense to me. Employees either have to vote, or a majority sign a membership card[and then management must agree to recognize the union based on card signing which is rare] for a union to represent them. Management does not get to make the choice.

Why don't they target non-union hospitals around the country? I am sure a few of those underpaid overworked, mistreated nurses would welcome the help.

Yes, I know the succes of unionization is based on regional attitudes, but it would seem a better use of CNA resources.

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I worked in San Diego, Corona, and Riverside. In San Diego I saw a doctor push a nurse down in a chair. Corona was worst, a MD slammed a phone down on a nurses hand, breaking bones in her hand. The nurse was fired. CNA did not respond when asked. In Riverside I saw a doctor spit in a nurses face. I moved out of California, and will never return.

Has no one heard of 911? Just start arresting and sue the pants off these animals. Sue, sue, sue, this is how these people learn. Too bad the days of catching him/ her in a dimly lit parking lot are over.

Cinja,

I hear you, however the police did refuse to respond to the violence against nurses, stating " a hospital matter". Getting a lawyer to take one of these cases is unheard of.

I myself wrote to every nursing organization CNA, ANA, AHA, CHA, the medical board of California. From the mayor to the movie star gov, and not one responded. Many other nurses wrote letters as well, with zero response. We called these offices to follow up on our letters, only to be told again, "a hospital matter".

Well, I could not live,or work in California. I asked my husband to please find another job in another state so we can move. He did, and we no longer live in California.

Specializes in Public Health, DEI.
Cinja,

I hear you, however the police did refuse to respond to the violence against nurses, stating " a hospital matter". Getting a lawyer to take one of these cases is unheard of.

I myself wrote to every nursing organization CNA, ANA, AHA, CHA, the medical board of California. From the mayor to the movie star gov, and not one responded. Many other nurses wrote letters as well, with zero response. We called these offices to follow up on our letters, only to be told again, "a hospital matter".

Well, I could not live,or work in California. I asked my husband to please find another job in another state so we can move. He did, and we no longer live in California.

I live in California and I have never heard of the police refusing to respond to an assault case on the basis of it being a 'hospital matter'. Was there any news coverage on this case? Have you a link?
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