TLDR: Through illegal firing Democratic appointed NLRB board member and Supreme Court not allowing her to be reinstated, NLRB is below quorum to resolve labor disputes. Companies are using this to fight unions and labor campaigns.
Seems completely intentional.
Who do you think they’re paying more, their employees or the politicians?
Yup. Local healthcare system near me decided to try and screw the one unionized location they have, so they went on strike like 3-6 months ago. The strike is ongoing, but the hospital is forcing the float pool to cover those positions, but not properly informing float staff that they don’t have to cross picket lines if they don’t want to.
The hospital has posted the union jobs internally… Which is retarded. They don’t even have enough nurses to staff the float pool and open positions they had in the first place, so now they are offering the opportunity to get a new position that will have absolutely no training, and you know the people who used to do the job had better pay and benefits than you’ll get.
It’s kind of hilarious honestly. I hope the union members can afford to make it through the strike. The HCO is on the brink of having to hire locums to fill the spots they have open, which will cost at least 2x more than what the union was asking for. Plus they are getting make patient safety complaints filed for the striking location almost every day, because it’s such a shit show
My wife literally had a doc/surgeon come to to her in the clinic, pull out vials of meds from his scrub pockets he obtained from the OR pyxis at the hospital, and was asking her to admin those meds in the clinic without any verification… She just said no and immediately reported it to the state reporting site.
But that’s what matters to healthcare organizations. Is worth it for them to pay MORE, and put patients at Rush to crush a union at that the extra money goes to the c suite.
NLRB would have put an end to this shit a long time ago
