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.
Also, when is the CNA going to try to break in to TX. I might actually consider reducing the "nursing shortage" that I've contributed to by refusing to work bedside here.
Unions frighten me because I hate the idea of giving someone else the power of my vote. I think we are more effective, and certainly more professional, if we work through our professional organizations. As for CA- they may have mandated nurse:patient ratios but the hospitals are paying huge amounts of money to get nurses to work there. It is an "us versus them" atmosphere and nobody wins in those cases. The focus is clearly NOT on the patient. I think nurses forget that to be paid the company has to earn money. Anyway, a union cannot guarantee you a raise or anything else. They can only "negotiate". Heck! I can do that without paying dues!
Also, when is the CNA going to try to break in to TX. I might actually consider reducing the "nursing shortage" that I've contributed to by refusing to work bedside here.
Austin and San Antonio next month.
No telling what may happen. It is up to the nurses.
At my union hospital, nurses who don't care to have their dues go to the union can opt to have it go to other radical leftist socialist organisations like the American Cancer society or the Red Cross. And they still get the benefits that the union has negotiated for them...better wages, benefits, and no more mandatory overtime.
as in to be employed we shouldnt have to join the damn union and they don't have to "bargain" for me thank you very much.
I can also think for myself, trust my skills, work ethics and honesty will advance my pay and position, and I certainly do not want them lobbying 99% of teh things that they lobby on "my behalf", or with my money.
So, if nurses at my hospital want a union, let em have it, those of us that don't...we'll take our chances, thanks so much
WHy not? Threats, intimidation...thuggery of the union...I understand that, which is why do not want any part of it
I notice you just recently moved to Cali. Since you're obviously conservative, and dislike the unions, the BON fees, etc. have you considered moving to Texas or some other conservative state?
I'm just curious because I don't know why any conservative would want to live in California since, everybody knows it is a liberal state.
Well, I should be able to "opt out" of a government I did not vote for, but it does not work that way. My only choice if I am unhappy is to leave the country.
Sounds to me like the CNA does give your wife the option of opting out of certain parts of their representation if she does not agree with the philosophy. That's a heck of a lot more you would get from your elected official or any other organization... Representation without taxation...
The CNA is coming to TEXAS! YAHOOO!!!!! I hope they come to DFW first and take on that nasty Group One, my sworn arch enemy! They have unfairly blacklisted so many good nurse and healthcare workers in the area it's a dang shame!
I'm working as a traveller in a union hospital and have no problems. I used to work a union job and had no problems with travellers. I wonder where some of you people work that it's so bad. Pamona has an awesome reputation among NICU travellers and it's union.
SEIU is a poor union choice for nurses. It's ties to management are way too close! If given the choice, CNA is better and is dedicated to nurses. SEIU is mostly non-nurses. Buyer beware!
Well Ken if your wife doesn't want to join the union, maybe she will have to move on. So far I haven't been able to see any "floor nurses" able to negotiate thier wages or retirement benefits. Management has full retiree health benefits, often after a few years of working there, but a "floor nurse" who has busted her hump and spent most of her adult working life in a hospital does not have that. That is what a union is needed for. When you show me how YOU have "negotiated" retiree health benefits for yourself and your wife at a hospital without a union, let me know so I can join you there. If the majority of nurses at a hospital do not want a union it is up to them to vote no at contract time and not stick their heads in the sand and say, "I didn't vote for the union, so I don't want to pay". A non-vote is a yes vote for the union. A no vote is a no vote.
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well that one guy does look kinda shifty :chuckle