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There is no other union doing the work CNA has done. They fought to get the ratio law passed to have at least some minimum staffing guidelines for hospitals. They stand up for climate change and wage disparity. I don’t see any hospitals or insurance companies rallying for better patient care standards!
Nurses who are complaining are the people who want someone to walk in and do it for them as if you can change healthcare with a magic legal bullet. Collective bargaining takes collective action and if you want change unfortunately a work stoppage is the only thing corporate healthcare understands. I have helped organize at other hospitals and I am neither vile, corrupt or dishonest, I do it so that in the bigger picture nurses have a voice to speak out against the lack or loss of quality healthcare. I believe in the work they do and that without them I don’t think there would be any voice for the average nurse an.

I am a former member of CNA. I know for a fact how horrible the people in this «union» are. They do NOT represent the nurses, they represent themselves and their self interests.
$ 150,000 — that is how much a new RN with an associates degree can make with shift differential. I know RNs who make $ 280K with some Call time. The thugs at CNA believe that is just not enough. The CNA RNs have received 5% raises per year for the last decade. This in a recession. There is a point, Ms DeMoro, when you kill the cow that gives you the milk.
RNs are the backbone of healthcare, that does not entitle them riches beyond measure. Reasonable pay for reasonable work. I have seen instances where there are 5 RNs complaining about taking care of 3 patients between them.
Nurses in Northern California are the best paid in the world. RNs fly here from everywhere as they can make more in a month than they do in a year at home. and provide no better care and bring no more value.
They now want to strike, again. They do not care about patient’s wellbeing. This is about establishing a National presence.
I have had the privilege of being an RN for 34 years, and never would have imagined the riches one can receive just being a bedside nurse for 2 patients. It is appalling that people think its never enough. The other providers of care get a pittance compared to the thugs at CNA. I have worked as an RN in union shops, and non represented. The respect one receives when acting as a professional, and treatment that goes along with the respect is beyond measure. On the other hand you have the mentality of confrontation and conflict that DeMoro foments– and the RNs have to play along for leaderships advance.
There is a reasonable standard, which was lost long ago when such power was granted to those of true bad-​spirit. Nurses should be represented by Nurses, not thugs or teamsters like DeMoro.

The CNA is one of the most vile, dishonest and corrupt unions in existence. It is controlled by RoseAnn Demoro. (Not a nurse) RoseAnn also put her husband on the payroll at a nice cushy six-​figure salary. The union organizing campaign I witnessed in Cedars-​Sinai was based on lies and real shady tactics. For these unions, it’s all about the dues. More dues, more power to the union. They don’t care about the employees or the patients at all.

Nurses unions could NOT CARE LESS about patients. All they care about is high salaries for union officials. The argument that this union is an advocate for patients is a joke.

Those of you who are trashing CNA/​NNU must not be aware of the history of the nursing profession and workers in general without the help of a strong union voice in the workplace.
Since I have been an active and proud member of this organization for almost 28 years I think I know what I am talking about. This union has been a champion and advocate for patients and nurses. They have fought for and gained the guarantee of staffing ratios in the CA hospitals. California is the only state in the country with this law and it has made working in a hospital a much better and safer environment for patients as well as nurses.
In my hospital we fought off mandatory overtime, which was an onerous and very real and daily threat. We fought for and gained a system of break relief through our union professional practice committee. As nurse reps (aka shop stewards) we represent nurses when they are involved in a disciplinary action. This gives them a guarantee of due process and protects them from termination without just cause.
One is short sighted to only mention strikes and claim that nurses are greedy and only thinking about wages when they democratically decide to have a work stoppage. I for one am proud that as a single mother of 3 I was able to raise my children on the good wages we have gained over the years. I do not feel we need to apologize for demanding a decent wage. I encourage those critical voices to get involved in the union process and voice your opinions as an activist. It is easy to criticize from the sidelines.
United we have an amazing amount of power. I for one would never want to work in a non union facility. I enjoy my hard fought for benefits, pension, Bay Area living wages, a regular shift and schedule, overtime pay, the 8 hour day, staffing ratios, break relief, disciplinary representation, the ability to challenge my manager without fear of retaliation, and so many other gains.

Have to love it when they put on a strike. Nurses claim these issues are important to them… They show up for one day (maybe a third of them) to «strike» with their signs and their shouting but I guess the other 2 – 5 days of the strike they can’t be bothered to show up then… It’s just a few days off… Just proof the majority of these idiots are in nursing for the $$$ and could care less about compromising patient care. Plenty of new graduate nurses who went into the field because they truly enjoy nursing who would LOVE to take a position and would actually show up for work. Those of you who decide to «strike» just know that the ones who are taking care of patients would love to tell you to your face how they really feel but they don’t out of fear of retaliation. Not happy? Find another career.

CNA is terrible in taking care of nurses’ personal needs, but just union thing then they are okay… All that they care is the union dues!

Get ready for a full-​on rant. A tirade, if you will. Most of us have had terrible experiences with health care (care? what «care»?? Must be a different dictionary…), many of us have seen «Sicko», and, unless you happen to be employed in the insurance industry (come on, people, anything is better than that.), you are probably fed up with the system, as we know it. Here’s a tip from someone on the inside of the hospital system: management is out for the bottom line (no surprise), patients are sicker than ever, Arnold’s «ratio plan» is not adhered to, and the unions, which were formed to protect the workers, are exactly the same.
Before I get myself into real trouble here, let me say that if I had to choose between management and unions, I would be in favor of unions most of the time. Just not my own, in this case.
FYI nurses have been working without a contract at all of the Sutter Health Care facilities since June. Management wants to chisel away at benefits (ho hum… no one needs to get into the nasty specifics… let’s just say that most nurses who spend their lives taking care of others get zero, nothin’, nada when they retire… and management likes that just fine, thank you), and while all this is going on, our union has been in a snit about all this. No one has managed to come to any sort of resolution in 7 months… WTF??! If this were lawyers, doctors, or just about any other profession, this would get straightened out PDQ.
Oh, and for all the other years the unions declared we go out on strike? No pay… Four years ago we went out on strike at the union’s behest and were assured we would be compensated… still waiting. Since October, there have been 2 ineffectual strikes and more are looming. The union’s strategy is to call «2 Day Strikes», then allow the hospital to lock out all the nurses for 3 additional days (thus loosing 5 days’ pay)…AND the union wants their dues. I recently discovered my dues money has been filtered to a «strike pay fund» for other nurses on the East Coast somewhere while meanwhile the nurses here are SOL… seems one has to be out of work longer than the 2 Day Strike to qualify, but our union feels it «would look bad to the public» otherwise…
Here’s my proposal: fire the unions, give your hard-​earned dough to a great PR firm, let the public know what’s really going on, and step back to see the proverbial shit hit the fan.
Perhaps this simple over-​view can give some of the public a tad bit of info. Again, I must state as an RN who is interested in public health (and my own) STAY OUT OF THE HOSPITAL! Tirade is now simmering, tho’ not over by a long-​shot. Good luck to new nurses… maybe we can create a working situation that is healthier for all, and not just corporate/​union deep pockets.
One final note: here’s the ultimate irony… the motto for CNA is
«A voice for nurses-​A vision for healthcare»…umm…not my voice, not my vision…