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About Unions
Posted: Feb 14, 2016
I hate unions because they just take the money (which should be used for paying strike benefits) and pay for political campaigns. Sure the thugs are gone but they still are corrupt. They care nothing about the people they take the money from each paycheck.;
How would you propose workers get raises, benefits, overtime, holidays? - Non-unionized MTs
[ In Reply To ..]Non unionized MTs get to work for minimum wage, have to pay for their health insurance, have to work overtime to just make their minimum line counts, have very little paid time off, get to work holidays for a small bump in line pay, but are OOW/NJA, so it does not really count. Tell me again about those horrible unions.
I wish the coders would look into this now. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Learn from MT mistake, and because a lot of MTs are leaving for coding-which is also being off-shored.
That is no concern of yours. You are not a - Coder
[ In Reply To ..]Coding is a completely different industry. MTs would never have been able to unionize because there weren't enough of them.
A more important factor in the long-term career viability of medical transcription what is been for MTs to adopt credentialing programs. However, MTs resisted it tooth and nail, preferring to allow matchbook schools and on-the-job training to persist and take over. The quality of the work that most MTs performed dropped drastically, promoting hospitals to outsource and then to offshore. If MTs have truly been necessary for quality purposes, voice recognition and offshore and would not have occurred.
Please don't talk about the conditions in coding. You are not a coder and you don't know anything about it, and there really is not a problem of offshoring in coding. In fact, many companies are now bringing offshored coding back into the United States because the quality of the work produced by Indian coders is deplorable. When hospitals lose money, they change their practices.
Huh? Unions support unions and all workers benefit - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Let me enlighten you. The reason home-based MTs cannot unionize is because they are fragmented and cannot afford to strike. The same is true of at-home coders.
I see the same matchbook MT schools advertising for coding students.
Don't need MT quality? I just got an account back from India where facility asked ME to come back.
I don't think you understand the economics. If companies can get labor, supplies, etc., cheaper, they try to lower the quality until they either change their ways or go out of business.
Corrections - Not a coder
[ In Reply To ..]MTs did and do have a credentialing board, it was AAMT and now it is AHDI. I sat for the CMT exam and held a certification, as did many others. We took pride in our work, strived for excellence and advanced our learning. It is AAMT who dropped the ball, not its members. Transcription was not outsourced or offshore drilling due to quality. That decision was money driven because employers could send people home and didn't have to provide benefits. I work in transcription quality assessment and could speak volumes to the quality of the work that is being generated offshore, so don't attempt to go there. No one knows the future of coding, but it probably should be a concern because offshoring is a trend and with more and more people wanting to work at home, you could also see wages decline. If you think that facilities aren't looking for ways to cut coding costs just as they did with MT, you are sorely mistaken.
So which MT unions have negotiated better deals? - I'm in the dark.
[ In Reply To ..]I mean, if you can point to some MT union that I don't know about that's negotiated better compensation for its members, please fill me in and I'll join up today.
There are no MT unions. That is the problem. - nm
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About Unions - Sara Volk
[ In Reply To ..]Union workers are paid significantly better wages than their non-union counterparts. They also negotiate contracts regarding working conditions and wages. I was a union rep working for the state and I negotiated grievances for employees and unfair corrective actions. You would not believe the number of people who wanted to pay their dues on Monday and have representation for an unfair corrective action on Tuesday. Unions require participation of their members. Unions require dues for legislative action, for member representation, for recruitment, and for advertising. I have nothing but good things to say about unions. I work 40 hours a week and get overtime pay because of unions. Management isn't going to give up a nickel because they are good guys. We would all be in a lot better shape if we had a union.
Over half of union members work for federal, state or local govt. - Your statement about wages is...
[ In Reply To ..]...true in that context, but not necessarily so in others. For instance, under the SEU wages of many low-skilled workers have not advanced more than COLA in the last several contract cycles.
Ha, ha. How many MTs received COLA increases? - Not me--Pro union -- nm
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Uh, yeah - which they then gave back in union dues. - I'm not anti-union but spare the hype.
[ In Reply To ..]There's a reason that union membership has tanked - except in the public sector, where unions ought never to have been allowed (because they're negotiating with the very people that they help elect = corruption) and helps to explain the staggering incompetence that we see today in government.
umm, satire. You ever hear of the grid? - no cost of living increases
[ In Reply To ..]You see, MTs are not unionized and everyone has had their salaries slashed by such ploys as "the grid". No one has received a cost of living increase in decades because MTs do not have a union. Real MTs know this.
See my message below - most MTs are not eligible to organize - because they're not employees.
[ In Reply To ..]The first hurdle would be that somehow all these MTs are converted to employee status. Now, let's see - short of the IRS forcing MTSO's to reclassify MTs, what would make them do this?
Answer: NOTHING WOULD MAKE THEM DO THIS!
Bottom line: You're whistling in the dark until the IC situation is dealt with.
The only way to effect change is for every IC...sm - VTMT
[ In Reply To ..]to file an SS-8 form with the federal government.
They big wigs live like CEOs. They donate dues to the Democrat Party, - even though not all their members are
[ In Reply To ..]Democrats. It's a racket.
Also, the more demands they make the more automated things will become. Like demanding $15 an hour flipping hamburgers. Look for more kiosks, in our case more VR.
^^This is the attitude that got MTs in this mess.^^ - nm
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This is not an "attitude" - it's a statement of established fact. - Attitude has nothing to do with it.
[ In Reply To ..]I might have an "attitude" that's very favorable toward unions, and yet I would have to acknowledge that union bosses live high on the hog and donate union money to candidates and causes that some union members might not support.
Those are just simple facts. By what stretch of imagination you drag "attitude" into it is beyond me. Very loose thought process.
You can thank business schools like Harvard and Yale that - teach people who now comprise the
[ In Reply To ..]"business managers" who were taught that loyalty to your country is an “antiquated”idea and that nationalism must take a back seat to doing what is in the immediate interest of the business owners.
Kinda like living in the old USSR in a way.Not much on the shelves - but old bread. Somewhere in between
[ In Reply To ..]these two parties I see a third party emerging.
Time will tell.
I love people who think they know all about unions - but know nothing about unions
[ In Reply To ..]If the union does nothing for their members I wonder why my son-in-law pays nothing for his health insurance for him or his family, makes $30+ per hour, is getting an $11,000 dollar profit sharing check in a couple of weeks and much more. All negotiated through the union. Just because you don't hear about everything doesn't mean people aren't better off.
If that is nothing then I will take nothing.
So some the unions do a lot for their members. Others not so much, but still better than what is happening in our field of work.
Please research the history of unions before you - characterize them as being all bad
[ In Reply To ..]If you learn about why unions were needed in the first place and the positive protective benefits for union members, you may end up with a different opinion. Yes, corruption exists in any organization made up of human beings. No system is perfect.
Just remember two things: Where the money is (corporate America), therein lies the power. Power tends to corrupt.
However, there is also power in numbers. Thankfully, those numbers in the form of unions have afforded their members protection from a lot of the abuses that employers would otherwise have inflicted upon them.
No, unions are not perfect, but they are necessary.
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