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.
it's just TERRIBLE that CNA, no matter how much good they done in California, would DECERTIFY another union. That doesn't build anything and just does managements job.
CNA shouldn't be in the south at all since they support RALPH NADER and have no history. it's offensive when people try and come in from the outside and say how it should be.
If they are so great in CA they should stay there -- I heard they just gave up at Cedars-Sinai in LA and walked away because it was too hard.
The rest of us want a union affilitated nationally with power and run locally in our states, not by California radicals who dont work with anyone and think they are better than everyone.
Extremism doesn't work in health care. We have to work together. I dont hate my hospital, I want us to figure out how to do a better job together.
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it's just TERRIBLE that CNA, no matter how much good they done in California, would DECERTIFY another union. That doesn't build anything and just does managements job.
CNA shouldn't be in the south at all since they support RALPH NADER and have no history. it's offensive when people try and come in from the outside and say how it should be.
If they are so great in CA they should stay there -- I heard they just gave up at Cedars-Sinai in LA and walked away because it was too hard.
The rest of us want a union affilitated nationally with power and run locally in our states, not by California radicals who dont work with anyone and think they are better than everyone.
Extremism doesn't work in health care. We have to work together. I dont hate my hospital, I want us to figure out how to do a better job together.
If the nurses in the South feel so strongly about CNA and Ralph Nader (totally don't see any connection there, but okiedokiefine), then they won't vote to bring the CNA in and all will be settled, won't it now?
If the nurses in the South feel so strongly about CNA and Ralph Nader (totally don't see any connection there, but okiedokiefine), then they won't vote to bring the CNA in and all will be settled, won't it now?
The problem with the CNA moving in on another union turf is the same when any union takes over. The propaganda and promises that are spewed sound so wonderful. They always leave out the fact that you are about to support leftists with political contributions, that you give up your perfomanced base raises and promotions, and the fact that the union exists to propagate itself. The union uber alles so to speak. Do you think that if there were really full disclosure of all this and so much more that people would actually flock to them?
columbus, oh. (feb. 12)-national right to work legal defense foundation attorneys today announced the filing of federal unfair labor practice charges at the national labor relations board (nlrb) after local painters union officials levied illegal fines of $32,500 against a worker who exercised his right to refrain from formal union membership.
officials of painters and allied trades local 1275 in columbus levied the illegal fines after construction worker james ott sent two resignation letters to union officials in an attempt to resign his union membership. local 1275 officials ignored his legal right to resign and instead held an internal union "court" and levied the fines after ott joined another union.
"once again, union chieftains prove that their main concern is preserving at all costs the unchecked power they wield over workers," said stefan gleason, director of legal information for the foundation. "there can be no doubt that this attempt to extort a worker for more money than many people make in a year will send a chill through the rank and file."
under the u.s. supreme court decision in patternmakers v. nlrb, workers may resign their full, formal union membership immediately and without restrictions. once a worker becomes a non-member, union officials have no legal basis for enforcing union "discipline."
according to internal union documents, union officials charged ott--over a month after his resignation from the union became effective--with various bizarre claims including "disloyalty," "engaging in subversive activity," and violating "provisions in the ritual of this brotherhood."
once the nlrb issues a formal complaint, it will be up to an administrative law judge to determine exactly how painters union officials violated federal labor law and foundation-won supreme court precedents.
the national right to work legal defense foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. the foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, is assisting thousands of employees in over 400 cases nationwide.
yep, unions are great organizations that have workers best interests in mind.
Give us break and a favor to ask,stick to nursing unions..............
Sorry, but all unions are alike. Most are as corrupt as the day is long. AFL-CIO, Teamsters, CNA, SEIU, UCFW, they are all greed mongering. If one is corrupt they are all corrupt- at least that is their opinion of Administrators.
sorry -- I was unclear earlier -- I meant because CNA endorsed Ralph Nader (Green Party -- said Gore and Bush were exactly the same) for President in 2000 and nurses' dues money paid for his campaign. not quite right for the South.
ANYWAY --if management hates unions and asociations so much -- why are they in one?? They pay dues to the hospital association, which lobbies on their behalf, and nationally lobbies against ratios and other regulatory improvements every year.
they know the union is the right thing, and so do the doctors, they just don't want nurses to have what managers, administrators and doctors have: POWER
Sorry, but all unions are alike. Most are as corrupt as the day is long. AFL-CIO, Teamsters, CNA, SEIU, UCFW, they are all greed mongering. If one is corrupt they are all corrupt- at least that is their opinion of Administrators.
Your statement sounds so much like stereotyping that it is scary! Are you an Administrator that feels threatened by comments about sharing power?
Unions, like all organizations, are made up of people, members in this case. These members,through their hard work, achieved the social benefits that people in this country take for granted: protection against child labor, 40 hour work week, FMLA, and Social Security, to name just a few.
Give us break and a favor to ask,stick to nursing unions..............
Please, the problem is not specific to painters Unions
The CNA is mailing all kinds of propaganda claiming CVHP is denying the will of the nurses and that they are making false accusations, yet they never mention what the accusations are... funny that. It seems to me that if they were false they would announce loud and clear from a hilltop so that all could take issue with them.
Are you an Administrator that feels threatened by comments about sharing power?
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it's just TERRIBLE that CNA, no matter how much good they done in California, would DECERTIFY another union. That doesn't build anything and just does managements job.
CNA shouldn't be in the south at all since they support RALPH NADER and have no history. it's offensive when people try and come in from the outside and say how it should be.
If they are so great in CA they should stay there -- I heard they just gave up at Cedars-Sinai in LA and walked away because it was too hard.
The rest of us want a union affilitated nationally with power and run locally in our states, not by California radicals who dont work with anyone and think they are better than everyone.
Extremism doesn't work in health care. We have to work together. I dont hate my hospital, I want us to figure out how to do a better job together.