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Topic: The Nursing Home Nightmare |
The Nursing Home Nightmare
Washington Free Beacon, by Bill McMorris
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 2/25/2013 1:22:01 PM
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| Lucrative union contracts have driven five Connecticut nursing homes at the center of a labor dispute into bankruptcy. HealthBridge Management has entered five of its nursing homes into Chapter 11 bankruptcy to escape labor contracts that left the company losing $1.3 million each month, according to senior vice president of labor relations Lisa Crutchfield. “The centers have a bright future if they can operate under labor agreements that reflect today’s financial realities, but the fact is the centers will not survive unless we have relief from the crushing burden of unsustainable labor costs, especially the spiraling
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The reading of this article requires copious amounts of blood pressure medicine. The SEIU is a spawn of the devil. Their corruption coupled with the lawless NLRB is an outrage and unmitigated disaster. How in the world do we ever get our country back.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bamapreacher, 2/25/2013 1:31:15 PM (No. 9195293)
There´s that Slave Employees International Union messing something else up.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LudicrousSextus, 2/25/2013 1:36:19 PM (No. 9195307)
Sing it with me now...
Look for...the Union label...when you are buying a cardboard box to sleep in...
Got a ring to it, doesn´t it?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 2/25/2013 1:43:04 PM (No. 9195320)
FTA: Nearly 70 percent of state nursing home bankruptcies have emerged in centers with SEIU contracts in place
Just coincidence I suppose. Some people are moving to 3rd world countries for long term care. The cost is a fraction of what you´ll be paying in this country.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LudicrousSextus, 2/25/2013 1:50:45 PM (No. 9195340)
And let´s not forget as well - those ´Unions´ are the largest donors to liberal politicians in the country...
Anyone see a pattern here? Largest single donor? The Teacher´s Union structure...now featuring both kids and *teachers* who can neither read nor make correct change.
Not to worry tho´ - as demonstrated by Team Obama - if it ever came down to a choice between saving *teachers* or saving KIDS...fearless leader says:
Get back to us when the lil´ tykes can vote.
Ask non-union GM workers how ´ethical´ government is when Unions are involved...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JHHolliday, 2/25/2013 1:52:36 PM (No. 9195342)
The northeastern part of this country seems to be circling the drain in more ways than one...unions...socialist politicians...and crooked Democrats (redundant, I know).
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stymie82, 2/25/2013 1:55:21 PM (No. 9195344)
My wife is a consultant at numerous nursing homes. The owner of one of the homes told his workers that he would sell the facility if Obamacare was instituted and Obama won re-election. He has sold to a group who are planning BIG cuts in manpower and it will affect patient care in many ways. First cut is going from 16 workers to 9 in housekeeping. Similar cuts in nursing and dietary are coming. It´s quite sad for the workers and the patients. Look for lots of weight loss and decreased quality of life.
The Connecticutt story has left out the part about how instituting Obamacare is the last straw for many businesses. We are spiralling downward.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Heraclitus, 2/25/2013 2:07:03 PM (No. 9195365)
Wait ´til they´re in control of hospitals. This was BO´s gift to SEIU. The dimwits out there who love BO and voted for him, again, will be surprised and incredulous.
And there will be NO ESCAPE.
The all-powerful State will crush and suffocate, life will be dull and colorless. They´ve sold their souls for a trinket.
Whoever thought the Orwellian nightmare could be made into something desirable or tolerable?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl, 2/25/2013 2:08:42 PM (No. 9195368)
What is frightening is these union thugs changed the nametags of Alzheimer´s patients and messed with their records before walking out on strike, and the NLRB forced the nursing homes to rehire them.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
octrojan, 2/25/2013 2:14:02 PM (No. 9195388)
I guess I missed the part of the article that said Management was forced to sign these contracts. Did Management agree to these contracts back when times were better? If so, why is it the Union´s fault here? Seems as if Management needed some backbone when it was negotiating.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 2/25/2013 2:32:11 PM (No. 9195433)
Once you´ve gotten your SEIU journeyman´s card in grave robbing, you can then be promoted to a nursing home job. It´s indoors, warm and you just kick a patient out of bed when you take your daily naps.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 2/25/2013 2:40:30 PM (No. 9195467)
Whenever the local, state, and federal governments are in bed with the unions, you have this kind of situation occurring. The union declares a wildcat strike. Management is muddling through when sabotage comes into play. In the BART strike in San Francisco, the maintenance workers were putting steel wool in electrical boxes. In this case, Obama´s NLRB has been involved.
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