Reply #6: We tried to get AFSCME into the hospital I worked in about 10

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years ago. 90% of night nurses signed union cards. Only about 15% of day stsff did so, and we lost the bid. The hospital spent many millions on professional union busters and managed to intimidate the day staff, as well as convince them that ladies didn't belong to unions, those were for sweaty guys in wife beater shirts. It was a hard lesson for us.

However, half the RNs in this country have left the profession due to brutal working conditions, myself included. This ruling and the expansion to all nurses as "supervisors" because CRNAs and LVN/LPNs are theoretically subordinate should start to take care of the other half as it allows management to work nurses 60 hours a week without the compensation of overtime.

I think it might become easier to unionize day staff when hospitals start to do this garbage. The were the primary industry behind the change in overtime rules and the reclassification of "professional" employees as exempt from overtime rules.