Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt
Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt
Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt
Dr. John Wust does not come off as a labor agitator. A longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana with a penchant for bow ties, Dr. Wust spent the first 15 years of his career as a partner in a small business — that is, running his own practice with colleagues.
Long after he took a position at Allina Health, a large nonprofit health care system based in Minnesota, in 2009, he did not see himself as the kind of employee who might benefit from collective bargaining.
But that changed in the months leading up to March, when his group of more than 100 doctors at an Allina hospital near Minneapolis voted to unionize. Dr. Wust, who has spoken with colleagues about the potential benefits of a union, said doctors were at a loss on how to ease their unsustainable workload because they had less input at the hospital than ever before.
“The way the system is going, I didn’t see any other solution legally available to us,” Dr. Wust said.
Absolutely. Unionize. Doctors should unionize. Accountants should unionize. Graphic designers should unionize. Everyone should unionize except the executives that have to bargain with the unions.
How people can’t understand that unions do a lot of good is beyond me
Decades of Republican propaganda.
"It's easier to fool a man than to convince him he'd been fooled."
Crazy how accurate Mark Twain was about the United States even way back then.
Or bad experiences with a union. I've personally seen Unions do good things, I've seen them have bad effects, and I've seen them cause frankly ridiculous delays with their rules and lack of coordination with other unions. I think theoretically Unions are a great idea, but we've all seen things like Police Unions make it impossible to get rid of bad cops, and otherwise protect people who I believe no normal person would say should keep their job.
Police unions aren't helping
At my job years ago they had a required training that was watching a video that was essentially anti union propaganda.
They had two managers discussing the need for a new supervisor position opening up, and discussing two qualified candidates. Then a third guy (poorly dressed and obnoxious personality) comes in and says they have to promote this other guy, due to union rules. The managers exclaim that guy barely ever comes to work and when he does has very poor performance, but Obnoxious Union Guy insists their hands are tied and they must promote him.
End Scene.
Now, good employee forced to watch this video, can't you see how unions are bad?? And YOU have to pay a fee to essentially destroy the company so we go under and you have to get a new job! Be a good little employee and keep working hard and forget the word Union exists.
How does that work for smaller businesses? Legit asking.
I'm pro-union, but with a whopping...7 employees on good day, I'm struggling to see how bringing in a union would help without having massive overhead cost due to the lack of quantity being paid in.
My company already pays as much as it can back to the employees (I am the lowest paid employee, as the owner, at what amounts to a $1 salary), we pay as much as we can afford towards health benefits, we reimburse a portion of home internet and cell, and we do a lot that results in free meals and other gifts for employees.
That said, I wouldn't be opposed to a union if it improved morale, but I am just struggling to understand where they would add the best value for the cost. I don't want my employees to suffer, but frankly if union dues cost like...I don't know, $3500/mo, I'd much rather just split that money across the employees to pocket on their own.
edit: To the people down voting, I would legitimately love to hear why. And am looking for feedback on how you think I should fix the situation.
Actually, the executives should probably also unionise, it will help normalise negotiations and spread best practices that lead to a better work environment for all.
Would be kind of interesting to see what kind of negotiations would arise from having labor, management, and executives all represented by unions!
edited to add missing word
Executives are already part of a union. Boards approve the executive hiring of a company, but those boards are made up of executives from other companies. And those companies have boards that include executives from other companies. Hiring and firing of executives are handled by a collective of executives across many companies. It's a union that protects itself.
If they can stop looking out for themselves first!
Management jobs are rarely union, since they're the ones making the rules.
I don't know if that will achieve what you want it to. Remember, the AMPTP is a union and it was able to get concessions from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA which are not good for the workers.