The situation is this: My wife is working for a local nursing care home as a CNA. A little over a year ago, the place became unionized by the S.I.E.U. and because"no one else wanted the job", she got "elected" as the CNA union representative. Fine. Everything was proceeding apace with a few annoyances, and the union's business was conducted on the telephone via "conference calls". But as the year woreon, these conference calls became somewhat unworkable, because there were quite a large number of union reps of the line, some working at noisy nurse's stations during the conference calls, and it was almost impossible to get any business done. So it was decided that the union reps would all come together in Oakland(we're in Bakersfield, California) for these negotiating sessions. The parent company of the facil;ity where my wife works is Kindred Healthcare, and after initially granted some modest wage increases, they have dug in their heels and refused to go any higher.
2006-06-15
15:46:26
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