Here is some interesting news. I worked at both these hospitals. I worked for Research Medical Center for 18 years. I worked at Menorah Medical Center for one year.
"By a more than 2-to-1 margin, workers at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, MO voted yesterday to make SEIU Healthcare Missouri/Kansas their union. The landslide victory, with a vote of 285 to 136, unites nearly 600 more HCA-affiliated hospital workers in SEIU Healthcare. They join the more than 300 workers at Kansas City-area Menorah Medical Center who voted to join SEIU just weeks ago.
"The election was a very moving experience and a very needed change," remarked Arthur Dawkins, an EVS Tech at Research Medical Center. "Yesterday we stood together and with a mighty voice we said to HCA that we want to sit down and talk about improvements." Already, just hours after voting closed, workers are filling out contract surveys and talking about their priorities for bargaining.
More than 15,000 workers at HCA-affiliated hospitals in California, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Kansas, and Missouri are now united in SEIU."
Read more from the
Kansas City Star.
Both these hospitals needed a union when I worked at them and it was after I left RMC that HCA took them over. I worked for a HCA hospital in the Orlando (FL) area after I left RMC and Kansas City. The hospital in FL was the worst hospital that I had ever seen and I had worked 30 years at hospitals. So I am sure that after HCA took over RMC and MMC that both those hospitals needed even more a labor union.
I used the hospital employee grievance procedure four times at one hospital (Trinity Lutheran Hospital) and it worked excellent. It was fair. I won all four! Smile
I used the grievance procedure at Research Medical Center two times. It sucked. They almost laughed in your face when you used it. They also let you know that you would pay for using it. I won the first time and I lost the second time.
Hospital workers need unions.
