Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.?

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Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.? Especially considering that multiple hospitals lack supplies for PPE and we are frontline workers.

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I use to work registry on the side of my fulltime job. That registry just contacted me to work in New York at a pay rate of $6200.00 per week for 8 weeks. Just throwing this in to the topic of hazard pay for your dependable employees, if you are working with a registry nurse she is probably making 2 to 3 times what you are. Seems right to give you the full time dependable employee extra pay. My full time job is giving nurses a day vacation for every day worked, since March 17, I have received 11 days of extra vacation for working in this crisis. Fight for what you deserve and do not listen to negative people.

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34 minutes ago, ChristineS2004 said:

I use to work registry on the side of my fulltime job. That registry just contacted me to work in New York at a pay rate of $6200.00 per week for 8 weeks. Just throwing this in to the topic of hazard pay for your dependable employees, if you are working with a registry nurse she is probably making 2 to 3 times what you are. Seems right to give you the full time dependable employee extra pay. My full time job is giving nurses a day vacation for every day worked, since March 17, I have received 11 days of extra vacation for working in this crisis. Fight for what you deserve and do not listen to negative people.

I really like the vacation idea, I always said I rather have more days off

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On 3/29/2020 at 3:22 PM, SpankedInPittsburgh said:

Pay hasn’t increased because nurses keep going to work for the same amount of money. I’m short the employer has no need to pay you more so they won’t. Simple economic decision it was the same before the virus

Well said

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51 minutes ago, ChristineS2004 said:

I use to work registry on the side of my fulltime job. That registry just contacted me to work in New York at a pay rate of $6200.00 per week for 8 weeks. Just throwing this in to the topic of hazard pay for your dependable employees, if you are working with a registry nurse she is probably making 2 to 3 times what you are. Seems right to give you the full time dependable employee extra pay. My full time job is giving nurses a day vacation for every day worked, since March 17, I have received 11 days of extra vacation for working in this crisis. Fight for what you deserve and do not listen to negative people.

I also want to admonish everyone at this moment, we need to stick together like physicians stick together. I applaud registry/travel nurses who decide to leave their home state or the comfort of doing the bare minimum hours to come out and help full time nurses combat this virus especially in a time when "BENEFits & SECURITY" are necessary. I desire not to bring forth feelings of resentment towards one another but to empower fellow nurses to stand up for themselves and recognize their worth.

I had to make this statement because nurses often undermine one another and display misdirected anger as a way to deal with unfair practices.

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Maybe moving forward in union contracts there should be a pandemic clause so that nurses are treated more fairly. These are healthy discussions we must have in order to progress the Profession.

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To those who are arguing against hazard pay and are berating those on the front line for wanting more pay for coming to work and caring for patient without adequate protection, you ought to be embarrassed of yourselves. This is why nursing will NEVER get ahead. Teachers were able to negotiate better pay for themselves in a time when there wasn't a crisis...nurses should definitely getting more money. Police officers should not be expected to fight crime without bulletproof vests and ammunition; nurses should not be expected to fight diseases and care for patient without proper PPE.

This thread is so embarrassing. Women arguing against more money for unsafe working conditions. Unbelievable.

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5 minutes ago, ThePrincessBride said:

To those who are arguing against hazard pay and are berating those on the front line for wanting more pay for coming to work and caring for patient without adequate protection, you ought to be embarrassed of yourselves. This is why nursing will NEVER get ahead. Teachers were able to negotiate better pay for themselves in a time when there wasn't a crisis...nurses should definitely getting more money. Police officers should not be expected to fight crime without bulletproof vests and ammunition; nurses should not be expected to fight diseases and care for patient without proper PPE.

This thread is so embarrassing. Women arguing against more money for unsafe working conditions. Unbelievable.

Beautifully stated. It’s really appalling what so many nurses and workers in general have been trained to accept

it just makes me want to scream “THE OPPRESSION IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!”

I want to be clear: those of you arguing against hazard pay etc please just stop. For Gods sake

Do not ask those of us who value ourselves to stop doing so. Do not ask us to get down in the mud with you, take all manner of abuse and then smile and say “please sir, may I have some more?”

do what y’all need to do to get over your own self-loathing. But in the meantime, just be quiet.

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1 minute ago, dinah77 said:

Beautifully stated. It’s really appalling what so many nurses and workers in general have been trained to accept

it just makes me want to scream “THE OPPRESSION IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!”

I want to be clear: those of you arguing against hazard pay etc please just stop. For Gods sake

Do not ask those of us who value ourselves to stop doing so. Do not ask us to get down in the mud with you, take all manner of abuse and then smile and say “please sir, may I have some more?”

do what y’all need to do to get over your own self-loathing. But in the meantime, just be quiet.

I agree.

The martyr complex is going to get some nurses killed. We are not martyrs. We are licensed professionals with an in-demand skill-set and we deserved to be compensated accordingly.

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2 hours ago, ThePrincessBride said:

To those who are arguing against hazard pay and are berating those on the front line for wanting more pay for coming to work and caring for patient without adequate protection, you ought to be embarrassed of yourselves. This is why nursing will NEVER get ahead. Teachers were able to negotiate better pay for themselves in a time when there wasn't a crisis...nurses should definitely getting more money. Police officers should not be expected to fight crime without bulletproof vests and ammunition; nurses should not be expected to fight diseases and care for patient without proper PPE.

This thread is so embarrassing. Women arguing against more money for unsafe working conditions. Unbelievable.

Agreed!!

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On 3/25/2020 at 5:48 PM, brap740 said:

Because generally hospitals don’t care about their employees. They don’t care about the nurses. They care about their bottom lines.

we are in a world wide pandemic to which the federal govt has stated they will provide relief in grants/loans and tax abatements. YET HOSPTIALS ARE STILL STAFFING TO GRIDS. And without enough PPE.

how many of you out there are having hours CUT? The media stating huge bonuses for nurses etc....but what I’m seeing is the opposite.
Ffor the first time in my 10 year career I’m seeing runny nosers not use the ER like a PCP office. And the hospital census is way down. And what’s the hosptial doing ? Cutting hours. Staffing to grids ??? In a crisis? Worrying about the bottom line, not worrying about the welfare of their employees. It speaks volumes about what’s truly going on here. Asking nurses to take voluntary furlough so they can’t collect unemployment when they slash OR hours ? What kind of madness is this ? We do dedicate ourselves overtime, extra hours, coming in early. Punching out and staying late....working through lunch for free for years and years...but then during a crisis we continue to get abused because the census is low ?

Do hospital systems and their administrations care about nurses or is it all “talk” ? It’s looking like all talk in my area. Hopefully you all are experiencing different, but I guarantee there are a lot of reading eyes on this post that are seeing exactly what I’m seeing.

Ladies and gentlemen when is enough, enough ?

Enough, the hospitals will get a lot of money from the government and you can be sure the “management “ will be getting a big cut.

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On 3/25/2020 at 8:40 AM, nznurse93 said:

I think this is very selfish. Thousands of people have lost their jobs. People are in financial crisis. The economy is crashing. Asking for more money for doing your job, which you chose, you know the risk we are at every single day, Is just rude!

This is why we as nurses will never get ahead financially, because we settle for whatever is thrown at us no matter what the personal risk or sacrifice.

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On 3/31/2020 at 8:33 PM, ChristineS2004 said:

I use to work registry on the side of my fulltime job. That registry just contacted me to work in New York at a pay rate of $6200.00 per week for 8 weeks. Just throwing this in to the topic of hazard pay for your dependable employees, if you are working with a registry nurse she is probably making 2 to 3 times what you are. Seems right to give you the full time dependable employee extra pay. My full time job is giving nurses a day vacation for every day worked, since March 17, I have received 11 days of extra vacation for working in this crisis. Fight for what you deserve and do not listen to negative people.

curious, what were the hours like for this offer?

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