The American Thinker has been good enough to run my piece about the plan Andy Stern and his accomplices (which include our President-elect) have for completely infiltrating health care. Anyone doubting that this is bad news for nurses (and thus patients) should read this post by Nurse K:
Our aides have been hit with an obscure union rule that says you will automatically be terminated when you pass your NCLEX board exam for LPN or RN. This rule has been around forever, in order to keep aides from being forced to work as nurses with no nurse pay, I guess.
And the effect of this idiotic rule is to render newly-minted nurses unemployed:
If you pass boards, you lose your job as an aide the second that NCLEX result hits the registry. If you haven’t taken boards yet, you can’t even get your application looked at. Ergo, you have to voluntarily go unemployed to look for a nursing job.
I have mentioned in previous posts that I once worked for a hospital in which many of the employees (including mine) were unionized. What I haven’t mentioned was how often staff members came to me with the following question: “How can I get out of the union?”
My standard response, of course, was that such questions should be directed not to management but to the shop steward. But, because that hospital was not in a right-to-work state, the real answer was: “You can’t, unless you’re willing to quit your job.”
The employees hated the union. Why? Because the kind of idiocy Nurse K describes is typical of unionized environments. In other words, the union made efficient operation of the hospital virtually impossible while doing nothing for the employees it allegedly represented.
If the unions are successful in thoroughly penetrating the health care industry, everyone loses—-except the union bosses and the politicians they finance.
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