The time off question was a disingenuous waste of this segment. The angle seemed to be "This seems like a ton of time off, wouldn't you agree?" Acting like the nurses are spoiled and entitled. It doesn't matter how much time off nurses are "allowed" if they are pressured by management to not take time off and in fact, take overtime because of the staffing deficits. Also, ALL working people, and especially people in high demand and caregiving professions, need time off to avoid burnout. Do you want a tired, burnt out, underpaid nurse putting in your foley, sticking your IV, assisting in your surgery? Don't take the side of a 30 billion dollar company whose executives make 7 and 8 figure salaries. They don't care about you.
That’s always a common tactic they use. They love to point out how much PTO nurses accrue. What they never disclose is how often nurses are continually turned down when they try and actually use it! Doesn’t matter if you get 10 days or 100 days if they don’t grant vacations!
I am a Prov employee. Funny thing about their PTO - it also has to cover our sick days and leaves. If I need to be off work for surgery or take a LOA to protect my mental health from going into full burnout, my PTO will deplete before paid leave Oregon kicks in.
My local hospital here in Yamhill county has recently become unionized. The care I received over the New Years holiday in the ER has greatly improved from before the unionization. My local hospital is not affiliated with Providence.
If you work on a postpartum unit your ratio can be 4 couplets (4 moms and 4 babies= 8 patients to care for). Sometimes I don’t get to spend as much time with each family as I would like because I need to run to the next family.
My wife is an RN with Providence. While pay and benefits are issues they have been negotiating it looks like they already have some reasonable offers to consider; It appears that the biggest sticking points have to do with safe staffing standards. I think if Providence addressed that one key issue...which so far they have NOT...the strike would probably be over. At least that's how it looks to me after seeing the proposals and the response from Providence in writing.
Give us employees better health insurance. Them moving all of us to Aetna from Providence Health Plan has been nothing but headaches and stress. I have to pay thousands of dollars in copays to get outpatient surgery at the same hospital I work at.
Gawd this lady. Why is this reporter taking the emails so personally? It comes off as ... ick Maybe the workers are camera shy because they're afraid of retaliation by this multi-billion dollar corporation.
I disliked her attitude while reporting and was surprised they made her of all people anchor. Have had enough of looking at her contemptuous facial expressions, snide remarks, and in this interview, even a rude hmph sound in reply to the lady’s answer.
Just look at the patient to care giver ratios. I don't know the exact number but there running a marathon to each Hospital room providing care! How unsafe is this???? I'm 100% on the Nurses side and I have never been in a Union.
As for your inquiry as to "who's side we are on?" Well, how about the PATIENTS! And i think the Nurses & Doctors care MORE about them, than the Corporate Big Wigs? In any event, I will ALWAYS side with Labor, so i can't really be all that objective here.
OHSu and Kaiser is top paying hospitals in Oregon. Our nurses leaving St. Vincent to work there. Better pay and benefits. I’m looking at job openings there
Sounds like someone's house shopping! The nurses and construction workers wages have gone downward for decades. It's time to raise the bar. 2025 for the workers who make peanuts. To many elephants.
Thanks for the breakdown! Could you help me with something unrelated: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (mistake turkey blossom warfare blade until bachelor fall squeeze today flee guitar). What's the best way to send them to Binance?
The time off question was a disingenuous waste of this segment. The angle seemed to be "This seems like a ton of time off, wouldn't you agree?" Acting like the nurses are spoiled and entitled. It doesn't matter how much time off nurses are "allowed" if they are pressured by management to not take time off and in fact, take overtime because of the staffing deficits. Also, ALL working people, and especially people in high demand and caregiving professions, need time off to avoid burnout. Do you want a tired, burnt out, underpaid nurse putting in your foley, sticking your IV, assisting in your surgery? Don't take the side of a 30 billion dollar company whose executives make 7 and 8 figure salaries. They don't care about you.
That’s always a common tactic they use. They love to point out how much PTO nurses accrue. What they never disclose is how often nurses are continually turned down when they try and actually use it! Doesn’t matter if you get 10 days or 100 days if they don’t grant vacations!
Not to mention the fact that even getting said PTO is a nightmare in itself that ends up getting denied most of the time.
As it seems neither do nurses, it’s a pathetic person who tries to make their own interests “the good of the people.”
@@phartferd5738 staffing ratios, rested staff, and retaining knowledgeable and experienced staff is for the good of the people.
I am a Prov employee. Funny thing about their PTO - it also has to cover our sick days and leaves. If I need to be off work for surgery or take a LOA to protect my mental health from going into full burnout, my PTO will deplete before paid leave Oregon kicks in.
My local hospital here in Yamhill county has recently become unionized. The care I received over the New Years holiday in the ER has greatly improved from before the unionization. My local hospital is not affiliated with Providence.
If you work on a postpartum unit your ratio can be 4 couplets (4 moms and 4 babies= 8 patients to care for). Sometimes I don’t get to spend as much time with each family as I would like because I need to run to the next family.
The Quality of their care has been challenged since Covid.
the nurses had been treated badly and many retired
I was at the one on glisan heard them talking very distaught
My wife is an RN with Providence.
While pay and benefits are issues they have been negotiating it looks like they already have some reasonable offers to consider;
It appears that the biggest sticking points have to do with safe staffing standards.
I think if Providence addressed that one key issue...which so far they have NOT...the strike would probably be over.
At least that's how it looks to me after seeing the proposals and the response from Providence in writing.
Give us employees better health insurance. Them moving all of us to Aetna from Providence Health Plan has been nothing but headaches and stress. I have to pay thousands of dollars in copays to get outpatient surgery at the same hospital I work at.
Gawd this lady. Why is this reporter taking the emails so personally? It comes off as ... ick
Maybe the workers are camera shy because they're afraid of retaliation by this multi-billion dollar corporation.
I disliked her attitude while reporting and was surprised they made her of all people anchor. Have had enough of looking at her contemptuous facial expressions, snide remarks, and in this interview, even a rude hmph sound in reply to the lady’s answer.
Just look at the patient to care giver ratios. I don't know the exact number but there running a marathon to each Hospital room providing care! How unsafe is this???? I'm 100% on the Nurses side and I have never been in a Union.
As for your inquiry as to "who's side we are on?" Well, how about the PATIENTS! And i think the Nurses & Doctors care MORE about them, than the Corporate Big Wigs? In any event, I will ALWAYS side with Labor, so i can't really be all that objective here.
Lordt. Glad I'm no longer working for Providence.
I had no ideal OHSU nurses make that much money.
Because they work that hard!
OHSu and Kaiser is top paying hospitals in Oregon. Our nurses leaving St. Vincent to work there. Better pay and benefits. I’m looking at job openings there
Thank you for posting with the comments turned on! There’s a few news channels that closed any way to have an open conversation about this.
Why are you even platforming the owning class? She is a CEO, what use is anything out of her mouth?
Sounds like someone's house shopping! The nurses and construction workers wages have gone downward for decades. It's time to raise the bar. 2025 for the workers who make peanuts. To many elephants.
2:11 From Susan or Cindy?
Thanks for the breakdown! Could you help me with something unrelated: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (mistake turkey blossom warfare blade until bachelor fall squeeze today flee guitar). What's the best way to send them to Binance?