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.
I didn't think the police had the right to refuse to write up a crime. A lawyer should have been able to straighten that out. Breaking someone's hand isn't a minor incident.
I didn't think the police had the right to refuse to write up a crime. A lawyer should have been able to straighten that out. Breaking someone's hand isn't a minor incident.
Did you contact the District Attorney for your area? You might even involve the State Attorney General's office. I don't think that, if someone wants to press charges, or even if they don't, that the cops can refuse to arrest someone. This is assault and battery. What do you mean that a lawyer won't touch the case because it involved a hospital? A crime was committed folks.
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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.
think my next stop would be a lawyer's office--- I am so not sue-happy but this is pure assault.
Than the local news channels and newspapers editorial columns, they would come next--all of them. SOMEone would love to cover this one.
Did you contact the District Attorney for your area? You might even involve the State Attorney General's office. I don't think that, if someone wants to press charges, or even if they don't, that the cops can refuse to arrest someone. This is assault and battery. What do you mean that a lawyer won't touch the case because it involved a hospital? A crime was committed folks.
And yes, I would call the papers, as well.
Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN
Spokane, Washington
It wasn't me, I agree with you. If someone broke my hand or spit in my face, you can bet the police would be involved.
Well as ticked off as I am at the CNA for raiding other RN unions,it pales mightly as to how angry California govenor Arnie Schwartzenager makes me! Arnie has got to go! How dare he try to get rid of the State Board Of Nursing !
For nurses working in many hospitals in California, it's like walking off an American street into the Middle East. The abuse is unreal, and no one will do a thing about it. No these problems don't make the news, it's not something seen as news worthy. But, when a hospital closes it's doors, the news reports blame the nurses, staffing ratio laws. I'm so glad I don't live in California any longer.
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For nurses working in many hospitals in California, it's like walking off an American street into the Middle East. The abuse is unreal, and no one will do a thing about it. No these problems don't make the news, it's not something seen as news worthy. But, when a hospital closes it's doors, the news reports blame the nurses, staffing ratio laws. I'm so glad I don't live in California any longer.
Sorry, I live in California and I haven't a single indication that this is true. I don't even know what you mean by it being like the Middle East. In what way? Of which hospitals do you speak? This is the most litigious state in the nation; I have to believe if the problems were as rampant as you believe, they would indeed be news, because when one court says no out here, people appeal.
I love CA living myself. Far superior hospital conditions to the mid-western state I left. My call pay is more than the base pay I left. But I understand that not everyone likes it here. It really is different.
the cna andnnoc has no members or real plan outside of california--besides raiding existing unions in chicago. There are over 2 million un organized Reigstered nurses in the US. Why support actions that divide us? Raiding other unions does not make sense when thousands of nurses have a voice?!?!?! the logic that cna is strong and has set standards does apply to this type of action.
In Colorado it is the Nurse Alliance of SEIU , Colorado who is the voice for Registered Nurses: and advocacy organization with a PLAN: including a legislative agenda to pass policy and a real leadership organization of and by RNs! check out http://www.nurseallianceco.org .
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I didn't think the police had the right to refuse to write up a crime. A lawyer should have been able to straighten that out. Breaking someone's hand isn't a minor incident.