What's in a Contract?

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Most CNA/NNOC Contracts Include These Major Elements (specifics of a contract vary from facility to facility)

  • Professional Practice Committee: Elected staff nurse committee that addresses staffing and practice issues, meeting on paid time at the facility.
  • Protections Against Unsafe Floating
  • Restrictions on Mandatory Overtime
  • Annual Salary Increases and Regular
  • Longevity Step Increases
  • Differentials: Weekend, shift, charge, and preceptor.
  • Nurse Representatives: Elected staff RN representatives from your unit who can assist you in interpreting your contract, filing a grievance, and organizing and communicating within your facility.
  • Vacation, Sick Leave, and Holidays
  • Paid Educational Leave
  • Retirement Plan
  • Health Benefits
  • Grievance and Arbitration Procedure: Formal procedures for resolving issues with management.
  • Per Diem Rights

http://www.calnurses.org/assets/pdf/nnoc_101.pdf

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The problem with this is that not all elements of every contract are agreed upon by all involved. There's no guarantee of a contract even if the union is voted into the facility. I can't imagine asking an organization into our hospital on the premise that they MIGHT be able to get you a raise! The unions love to crow about how they can do all of these things to make the perfect workplace but they're not spreading that quickly. As a matter of fact, there are decertifications in process daily. The one hospital that the cna managed to unionize in Texas went into decertification not long after being voted in under one of the cns nefarious "neutrality agreements" which all but hand you the keys to the kingdom. One would surmise that if an organization provides enumerable benefits to its members, then it would have some longevity in that institution. It hasn't and won't because most nurses know a bad thing when they see it!

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