Stephen Colbert
7th July 2010, 03:38
Asking my mom about how she works 45-50 hours a week and constantly complains of exhaustion and alientation, "why don't you join or start a union or at least tell your employer about your grievances?"
Her response was,
"Unions, especially in the health care industry, are a nightmare. You can't force a maximum number of hours on nursing staff when there are people here that need to be attended to full time. The regulations on our hospital are bad enough, we dont need union problems with an already hard struck industry."
An interesting point. I mean, people in nursing homes etc do need to be attended to, and having mandatory 8 hour work days and the like could I suppose be a detriment to the care and the health of the persons at the medical facility.
Thoughts?
Her response was,
"Unions, especially in the health care industry, are a nightmare. You can't force a maximum number of hours on nursing staff when there are people here that need to be attended to full time. The regulations on our hospital are bad enough, we dont need union problems with an already hard struck industry."
An interesting point. I mean, people in nursing homes etc do need to be attended to, and having mandatory 8 hour work days and the like could I suppose be a detriment to the care and the health of the persons at the medical facility.
Thoughts?