Are they prone to be more incompetent because they’re unionized?
(Need comeback answers to confront my friend...)
Thanks!
My wife, a dialysis RN, just got on with the VA in November. She was offered a union membership, but she declined. Thank goodness we live in a Right to Work state.
She sees not incompetance so much, but plenty of waste, and most of all, wasted time. No where close to the efficiency of a non-government outfit.
Some personnel are allowed to use work hours as ‘union hours’ and then charge for overtime for work hours. This is money that could have gone to patient care:
“VA “employees not performing government work could compromise the well-being of our nation’s veterans,” the senators write.
The senators are questioning a federal practice dubbed “official time,” whereby taxpayers foot the bill for salaries and benefits for federal workers who perform union duties instead of the “jobs they were initially hired to do,” the senators note.
The VA is now paying for an overtime “surge” to cut its huge claims backlog, while VA workers do union work, the senators note, tax dollars that could instead be spent on vets.”
also, there’s the nursing problem, as in a problem of nurses having necessary rudimentary skills:
http://www.businessinsider.com/too-many-nurses-at-the-va-dont-know-what-the-hell-theyre-doing-2012-5