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WOES
BCNU RAID KIT
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???!!!
Have you seen it?
If you haven't then go to www.heu.org and click on "National Nursing Week" If this gets out to the general public we are doomed for support.
If you would like a depiction of how the movies of the "Golden Era" viewed, presented and embarassed the Nurse well,
here you have it.
The following is a copy of my email in response to this to the HEU:
Where
did you get the model for this one – Friday the Thirteenth Meets Nurse Nancy?
She
looks as if you entered the patient’s room she would take a machete out and lop off your head!!!
Another
example of your poor representation
From: HEU LPNs [mailto:HEU_LPNs@mail.vresp.com]
Sent:
May-07-09 7:44 PM
To: kgerbrandt@shaw.ca
Subject: HEU marks National Nursing Week May 11 - 17
New LPN Classification for TCS Region of IHA
Dateline: April 2008
Here we go again - more cuts but this time just to the minority group - the LPNs
In a move by IHA to again decrease their budget they have said that they have discovered a discrepency in
payroll which saw LPNs who were not supervisors receive pay as such since the previous contract.
This group - LPNs working in TCS in Residential care facilities run by the IHA - received Nursing Assistant
III-Supervisor pay when they are not entitled to it.
The reason for this has been voiced as a "clerical error" by the payroll department of the TCS Region.
Their response has been to inform Heu and the LPNs of this region that as of April 1st 2008 all LPNs that
have previously been getting the above wage classification will be redcircled for any further pay increases in the current
contract until all other LPNs in the province have pay equity with them.
The reason, IHA says, they should not be getting this raise is by their definition a "Supervisor" is one
who is involved in hiring/firing, budget, assignment of workload, approving overtime and discipline. The LPN is part
of a "Nursing Team" which should work together which is "Supervised" by the "Management Team."
WHAT DO WE DO TO GET THEM TO LISTEN?
There are many times when I have asked for help from shop stewards in regards to helping me
gain access to the process of grievances and I have been put off or ignored.
I have in some cases ignored them and went directly to management with good results (see Raise Our
Flag).
I feel that nursing receives little representation in our union due to the fact that we have less
than 5% of the vote.
We are a minority within a minority within a minority - no wonder they don't pay attention.
A NEW 4 YEAR CONTRACT
Well, what did all of you think of the new contract?Let us know.
Here are my thoughts - After 7 years in 2010 we will have back what our government took back from us 3 years
ago and then we were asking for a 20 - 30% increase in our benchmark.
The Care Aids, although they are getting more than us at the start will be about 5% behind us when this
contract ends and the RN's will be another 15% above all of us by then because they didn't get the roll back 3 years ago.
The government is justifying this by saying that the R.N.'s have 3 more years training than us. Lets crunch the numbers on
that one - (I will be more specific when I get the time) a) how many 4 yr BSN RN's are there out there? b) How many actual
hours of training does the Diploma RN's have compared to the LPN as that's what the majority of RN's are? c) of the 4 year
BSN students that are presently working would you be comfortable with working as part of your team when they haven't done
any direct nursing care in 2 years? The other thing mentioned in a letter from the bargaining committee was the statement
from the gov. "What do you want to do? Price yourself out of a job again?(this letter will also be here in it's entirity when
I have the time)
When voting numbers were in the show was 90% in favour and 10% against. I, as a practicing LPN (which
compromises about 2% of the HEU) would like to thank those of you who are not LPN's, that obviously voted the way in which
most of the LPN's did, for seeing what to us was obvious - THIS WAS A BAD CONTRACT
Please HEU executive DO YOUR JOB. You were elected to negotiate contracts
for the betterment of ALL of your members!
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