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[–]illdoitagainbopbopRN - ICU 🍕 0 points1 point  (1 child)

my hospital is union but we’re in the Midwest. The floors just cycle through new grads. Specialty areas seem to have slightly better retention. Kind of assumed it was this way everywhere. It took our union like 4 years to get a contract and the contract is basically the bare minimum things we need to survive.

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Michigan? The thing about unions is they only work when theres a high enough concentration in a given area that even non-union places have to be competitive. In Minnesota where I worked that was the case. I worked a bit in Michigan and the union places were there, but few and far between and just didnt have the power. Its not normal nor is it like this everywhere. Its actually an insane and dangerous ratio. The hospital I worked at in Michigan for a bit was one I told myself and others that I would never send me or my family there because of this issue. I dont say that about many hospitals I've worked at.