Just a lil over 3 wks and this lil post has really caused a stir.. management found out about this post and that there may or may not be union involvement with the RNs at cottage😉

And it’s weird all of a sudden Laura Can’tfield wants to have important conversations with us.. I mean she wants our managers to.. Every unit is having impromptu meetings, they are scared and shaking but don’t even truly understand the momentum they’ve just given us. Any nurse unaware of a union now knows.. If anything Laura’s email Thursday has given us free advertising… thanks Laura maybe ur on our side after all.

It’s too late to talk, we asked to be heard in June when they snuck changes to LT sick LOA policies and they dismissed us. We asked to be heard in 2000 and they placated us with shared governance.. but remember you can’t discuss the two things any union would advocate for: staffing and rate of pay. 

Then when they thought we weren’t looking they started chipping away at our rights and benefits, medical dental, retirement, LT sick pay, the shuttle for employees that have to commute from Lompoc and Ventura/Oxnard. Now they want to act as if nurses have always had a voice and we are their partners. 

But since January when we push back against unsafe and unnecessarily rushed discharges, they told us to be quite get back in line. 

When we’ve asked why are we paid so disproportionately to our Bay Area counterparts they’ve claimed Medicare reimbursement is less then NorCal which is a half truth at best.. but that also doesn’t change the fact that cottage faces no really employment competition for nursing..  so in reality they don’t feel like they have to pay us a living wage..  LA nurses which were supposedly lumped in with Medicare reimbursement wise are making significantly more than us and don’t face the same cost of living/ rent crunch. 

Any small concessions they might give, even the obligatory “PEOPLES” sugar cookie, won’t be enough😂. The fear meetings are coming stay strong Cottage RNs SOLIDARITY.. A VOTE IS COMING AND WE WILL BE HEARD!!

Follow up to cottage a great place to work