PredFan
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Our hospital does the bulk of indigent and medicare/medicaid patients in the Orlando area. We have the designated trauma center for the Central Florida Area. Obamacare has drastically cut back the amout of money that the government gives to doctors and hospitals for medicaid/medicare. This resulted in losses for the hospital system.
As of a few months ago, management has been making cuts to stop the bleeding of money, these have included cutting non-patient care positions, and cutting back on management staff among many other cost-saving measures. All of us have been concerned for months about our jobs and still don't know how many will lose their jobs. The most recent cost-saving measure was to cut the night shift differential. That is the exctra pay incentive for working the night shift.
That move has enraged a large portion of the night shift personel and so much so that they now have union representation.
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I am and have always been anti-union. My mind has not changed on this matter. Still the question is of what I will do. I want to keep my job, I like my job, but I think unions are destructive and abusive. Certainly this hospital system cannot survive as is with union employees. Should I care? I'm 57, my IRA is pretty well set up and I only need 10 years to retire. I do care that patient care will be adversly affected but what can a lone voice crying nin the wilderness do?
If the whole hospital staff goes union will I go as well? How will I handle that and what will I do if a strike is called? I tend to think I will cross the line for my patients but is that worth the abuse from the union people?
Where do union people think money comes from, that's what I want to know. This system is losing 11 million dollars a year and if we make no cuts in staff or pay, what DO we cut?
The other two hospital systems in this town are a Nemours and severl of the Seventh Day Adventist hiospitals. All of them have very deep pockets while our hospital system is local and does not. That plus union employees spells bad things for the hospital and our patients.
As others have pointed out, the real problem is your boy Rick Scott is the one who has refused to expand Medicare unless private insurance companies are managing it. (Rick worked for Private Insurance before going into politics.)
Not in the lest true. I'll trust the experts here instread of your left wing bull shit.