We are in the 2nd day of the second round of bargaining. Teams are bonding and agreeing or working on agreeing on common interests and how to get there.
On my PSP team we have found many ways to articulate our concerns and the rational behind the concerns. Everyone is respectful even if they don't agree. Labor and management hear each other out. Then in our caucus we remind ourselves as a labor coalition, why we are here.
We are here to enhance wages, reconfirm long term job security for our members, protect our benefits!
NO CONCESSIONS!
Our elected observers are doing a great job also and I believe when time comes for local bargaining it won't be a long drawn out process because Kaiser sees all of us working together for a common positive outcome for our members.
I hear all about the craziness going on out there, while we are up here, but know we understand it is hard fighting windmills, but you have to guys. Stay stickered up, stand solidly together, stay prayed up and stay positive. Stick to the facts.
DON'T GET CAUGHT UP WITH THE NONSENSE!
Know that we are "in it to win it" "Don't take our stuff"
We need you to be there for us as we stay focused on the positives also.
Yours in Solidarity
Ms Shirlee Anne Shirley
We Did It--ALL of Us
14 years ago
Hello Shirley,
ReplyDeleteI have appreciated you for years. I know with you on our team our best interests are protected.
Health Connect is a good system, however, it has resulted in much more work for our clinic nurses. We are micro-managed to death and notified on every thing management thinks we missed. We literally have to defend ourselves. LVNS and MA's are appointment schedulers for paps, mammos, retinal photos, Bone Density tests ,immunizations, and any outreach program, besides the usual follow up appointments.
We are on site lab "techs",then need to check if the patient has to pay for on site lab tests. "Coders" to be sure we can collect from Medicare and much more. All this besides the usual Nursing duties, rooming patients, ekgs, vision, hearing tests, immunizations, returning phone calls within 2 hours, responding to Emails and the usual troubleshooting, expediting, etc,etc,etc.
We need protection, a big pay increase, No take aways or higher co-pays. Why is our vision benefit only $175.00?, we constantly strain our eyes because of the 4-6 different computer screens we jump to daily. Who has the time to adjust anything? If we need to strike, we strike until we get what we deserve. Please no 1 day strikes. Thank you again.