SEIU Nurses: Do you still have Clinical Ladder?

[woahmelly]

My facility is trying to unionize (in a RTW state ), and one of the talking points against it is that Clinical Assention/Ladders will go the way of the dodo.

Is this true at your facilities or is a bunch of bull?

[SummerGarden, BSN, MSN, RN]

nope, not true!!! i am not surprised that this garbage was told to you, considering that rtw states like all the rights in the hands of the employers and they wish to keep it that way.

the union facilities i have worked for continue to have a clinical ladder. however, all salary positions and management positions are considered non-union. positions that are staff or hourly are union positions, but people hired are not forced to join the union.

[merlee]

I worked in a union house many years ago and we had a really good clinical ladder.

[TriciaJ, RN]

There are always garbage stories about how things will get worse when nurses unionize. I can never understand how otherwise intelligent nurses seem to fall for them. The reality is that most clinical ladders were initiated or at least endorsed by the unions.

The best thing about a union contract is that pay steps and clinical ladder steps are awarded based on seniority or merit. It makes it more difficult to management to play favourites when nurses apply for advancement.