Posts tagged nurse
Op-ed: Diversity, equity, and exclusion: How the NLRB’s double standard on job-related speech hurts workers
March 22, 2024 // The NLRB in 2020 required Amazon to reinstate a male worker who had used a bullhorn to call a female colleague a “gutter bitch” and “crack ho,” among other misogynistic insults. The bullhorn-wielding worker had been engaged in a one-man union protest when the female co-worker told him to quiet down. The union activist replied with a string of insults that would be clear proof of a hostile workplace under any other circumstances. The NLRB nevertheless sided with the union activist, as it usually has in such situations. The board has long believed that allowances must be made for heated rhetoric when workers are engaged union-related activities. So, you cannot question a workplace diversity policy publicly at work and you cannot criticize the policy outside of work in the private-yet-public world of social media. Either one can get you fired for creating a hostile work environment. But a male worker can be openly hostile and insulting to female co-workers if the man is affiliated with a union.
UAW, Ford reach agreement; strike at truck plant in Louisville avoided
February 22, 2024 // Last Friday, the union issued a release that said nearly 9,000 workers at the Kentucky Truck Plant in east Louisville would strike on Feb. 23 if Ford failed to address certain issues. Point of contention included health and safety inside the plant, including minimum "in-plant nurse staffing levels and ergonomic issues," plus the company's attempts to "erode the skilled trades" at the plant.
96% of nurse residents, fellows vote to unionize at Ascension hospital in Texas
January 7, 2024 // Nurse residents and fellows at Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin (Texas) voted Jan. 3 to unionize and join the National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United. Nearly all 225 nurse residents and fellows — 96% — voted in favor of doing so.
Nurses and technical staff unionize at Central Vermont Medical Center
August 24, 2023 // Currently, each local union bargains separately with the administration at their respective hospital rather than at the network level. Kate Roche, a nurse educator, got involved in the effort to unionize after realizing she was having similar conversations with many other CVMC nurses who were facing challenges around staffing levels, compensation and how decisions in their departments were being made. “I saw all these people try on their own unsuccessfully to impact major change,” Roche said. “I figured, we have to try something else.”
12 nursing homes in Western New York plan for 1-day strike
July 5, 2022 // The largest health care workers union, 1199 SEIU, will hold one-day strikes all across Western New York later this month to demand higher wages. Autumn View Health Care Facility, Buffalo Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, Elderwood at Lockport, Elderwood at Williamsville,Ellicott Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, Fiddler’s Green Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Garden Gate Health Care Facility, Gowanda Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, Humboldt House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, Newfane Rehabilitation & Health Center, North Gate Health Care Facility, Seneca Health Care Center, Grace Bogdanove, April Stonebraker,
Hundreds of Minnesota Mayo Clinic Nurses Seek Vote to Free Themselves of Unwanted Union ‘Representation’
June 27, 2022 // Brittany Burgess, a registered nurse of the Mayo Clinic, filed the petition. The request seeking to end MNA union officials’ monopoly bargaining powers at the Mayo Clinic was signed by more than two hundred nurses in the bargaining unit, well over the number needed to trigger an NLRB-conducted secret ballot vote to remove the union. Mankato, Minnesota Nurses Association, Brittany Burgess,
U.S. Court of Appeals Shouldn’t Let Unions Buy Their Way Out of Litigation
June 3, 2022 // “This is an attempt by a union to circumvent litigation to avoid potentially damaging precedent,” said Patrick Wright, vice president of legal affairs at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and president of the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation. “We hope the court recognizes the importance of allowing plaintiffs, even in non-union cases, to vigorously pursue their constitutional rights, regardless of gamesmanship.”
Rising nurses’ salaries impacting Illinois hospitals
May 31, 2022 // Wilhelmi says IHA’s hospitals will do everything they can to keep all their services available, but they are at risk. He notes that is why they continue to look for other ways to reduce costs and petition the government for relief.
Nurses at two more Portland-area Providence hospitals begin strike authorization votes
May 24, 2022 // Nurses at two Portland area Providence hospitals will begin holding strike authorization votes on Monday. If passed, the votes will not automatically trigger a strike, but they will authorize the nurses' bargaining teams to call a strike amid negotiations with Providence.