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.
Well if the weather trumps politics, then maybe you could just accept how things are and live with them? And use the democratic process when the opportunity comes around to change it? Just a thought.
Well, I kinda thought that is what I am doing...
(Oh, and just so you know, I hate California...way to many people, way to much smog...and people out here consider Schrawzanegger CONSERVITIVE! BUUUUTTT my wife trumps hatred of liberals and the socialist that ruined this state.)
It's all a matter of perspective. A lot would say, the State of California is BETTER for its politics. All a matter of perspective.....
Yeah, that big orificed deficit...all the spending on illegals (which shouldn't unions be against...yet they constantly support canidates that want to heap more social rewards on them????) [NO, I am not happy with the republicans either, and I know that they are the big business cheap labor movement that ALSO perpetuates illegal immigration...) FIRE THEM ALL I SAY! (in the next election of course)
Over the years, officials of the ALPA's United division have thus had a powerful incentive in contract negotiations to encourage the company to underfund its pension program and put the money in pilots' paychecks instead.
Together with machinists union officials, that's just what the pilots union brass did. And to get what they wanted, they repeatedly threatened illegal strikes and engaged in illegal work slowdowns, as Wall Street Journal editor Holman Jenkins recalled in a May 25 column.
As recently as five years ago, then-ALPA chief Rick Dubinsky was still bragging about this strategy, Mr. Jenkins added. In 2000, Mr. Dubinsky famously told United management:
"We don't want to kill the golden goose. We just want to choke it by the neck until it gives us every last egg."
But current ALPA President Duane Woerth seems to suffer from amnesia when it comes to the ALPA's long record of intimidating the only sporadically profitable United into signing contracts that rapidly expanded the union's forced-dues cash flow, but put employees' pension funds at risk. The pension catastrophe is all management's fault, Mr. Woerth pathetically insists.
Is this an example of blaming unions for managements mistakes?
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Well, I kinda thought that is what I am doing...
(Oh, and just so you know, I hate California...way to many people, way to much smog...and people out here consider Schrawzanegger CONSERVITIVE! BUUUUTTT my wife trumps hatred of liberals and the socialist that ruined this state.)