Posted on 02/05/2012 7:08:39 AM PST by SmithL
Rose Ann DeMoro is always ready for another fight.
And why not? During the past decade, the leader of the California Nurses Association has won so many of her battles.
Largely because of CNA efforts, California is poised to become the first state where registered nurses make an average salary above $100,000.
The union helped defeat gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman in 2010 and has become a political force, throwing financial support behind candidates for offices ranging from Santa Rosa City Council to state attorney general.
...California's nurses have done plenty to increase demand and their own bargaining power.
In 1999, they persuaded the state Legislature to pass a first-in-the-nation law setting nurse-to-patient ratios: the maximum number of patients assigned to a licensed nurse at any one time.
The staffing ratios, implemented in 2004, range from one nurse for every patient in a trauma unit, to one nurse for every four patients in a specialty-care unit.
The ratios eased workloads while increasing the need for nurses, pushing wages higher, said medical labor expert Joanne Spetz, a professor at the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco.
"It's a huge cost for hospitals," Spetz said, estimating about one-sixth of a hospital's total budget goes toward compensation of registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses and nurses aides.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
California wants to die.
CNA is helping to drive up the cost of healthcare. Unions are greedy thugs, even nurse unions. They seem to be much more concerned with “relentlessly” pursuing salary increases than patient care or professional standards. What kind of salary does their union president make???
Most bankruptcies have a union slithering around nearby.
California Nurse’s make an average of $100,000 dollars a year?
Where do I sign up.
I had to deal with these Marxist running this evil organization .
These organization is as close to a communist party
Group in the US.
They are bankrupting hospital in the state in purpose because they
Want control and socialized medicine !
It’s not just California. And it’s not just the nurses. The entire healthcare industry is a disaster due to the labyrinth of laws and trade associations that are designed to reduce the number of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals of all kinds. That is really the reason healthcare costs have exploded in recent years. The supply of healthcare simply can’t keep up with the growth in demand because of the restrictions on entry into the industry. Obamacare does nothing to improve this problem, and in fact will make it worse because it increases the demands on a fixed supply.
It’s all the result of central planning. Planners are inherently less capable than markets to make economic decisions.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6244/gop_attacks_california_nurse_association_over_fat_cat_union_salaries/
She makes $293,000/year. In fact, that nurses union has 99 officers who make over $100,000/yr.
They are bankrupting hospitals, but they don't want socialized medicine. Under that system their wages would drop to under 40K.
When a balloon gets too much air, it pops..
Don’t forget the illegal aliens, whom we are legally required to treat regardless of ability to pay. Part of the grand socialist design.
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Thanks for this posting. My 46 yr old daughter has gone back to college to get another degree, this one for an RN. She is in Maine and her farm family needs a nonfarm income. A friend’s daughter is a nurse near Sacto. A niece is a nurse in NJ. What a contrast Maine must be to these two states!
Actually This radical union is lobbying for it in Sactown.
They support the Leno bill that would ban private health insurance in Ca and put all in a state Medicaid plan !
These union leaders are far left true Marxists.
They are the creeps who tracked down Whitmans housekeeper and hooked her up with Alread!
They want power at all costs !
They are one of the most dangerous far left groups in the US!
Got to have those high wages so you can funnel some money to the Democrat party. Just part of THE GREAT DEMOCRAT MONEY MAKING MACHINE!
To be fair, how many hours does that represent? All nurses that I know work significant overtime, not to mention shift work, to get above $75k.
One nurse per four critical patients? Here in Colorado 1:2 is the ratio.
Nurses earn their money and are not the most significant cost to a hospital or doctor’s practice. Government regulation is.
Now the nurses are politicized. Sigh.
Seems like CA is on borrowed time.
I can say this because I’m a unionized nurse in Washington state. I have to belong to SEIU because I work in a closed shop hospital. Nurses unions are to patient care what teachers unions are to education. You can take it from there.
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