This web page was created specifically for the Registered Nurses at Houston Northwest Medical Center (Houston, Texas) with the intent to help educate and inform the nursing staff regarding the union activity that surfaced in our hospital in 2008.
Every RN should be encouraged and challenged to educate themselves to make an informed decision about their professional nursing career and the untoward influence that a union could have on their future as a Registered Nurse at Houston Northwest Medical Center or at any hospital.
Effective April 2009, the CNA / NNOC withdrew from Houston Northwest Medical Center. The CNA / NNOC had been given permission from the NLRB to return to our facility to continue their remaining campaign efforts - and what did they do?
They WALKED AWAY!
Election Information - November 2008
The union election had been suspended at our hospital due to pending unfair labor practice charges against the CNA and Tenet.
Read the press release from the National Right to Work Foundation:
National Right to Work
YouTube Video
Houston Nurses Fight Back Against Compulsory Unionism
Voting Information
Please read the information below to understand the importance of your vote.
Politics & Religion - C.N.A. style...
Send a Letter
Please send this letter to your local
Republican Representative / Senator
Don't know who that is? Click this link to find out:
Update the date, place your name at the bottom and send!
Points of Interest
Where do your union dues go?
The following articles highlight some interesting spending habits of unions:
LM-2 Labor Organization Annual Report
7/1/07 through 6/30/08
Salaries, expenses, investments and more - see where and how the CNA manages their money
New LM-2 Labor Organization Annual Report
7/1/2008 through 6/30/09
Signatures?!
If you have provided your signature to the union and now wish that you could take it back - well, you can. Click on the link below, print the document and fill in the necessary information. After completing the document, you will need to make 3 copies and send to: 1) CNA, 2) HNMC HR Director (or your local Human Resources director) and, 3) National Labor Relations Board [NLRB] in Dallas (or your local / regional NLRB office) [all of the addresses are on the document]. ***Keep the original for your records.
Articles
Cy-Fair RNs continue to battle to remove the union from their hospital, read article - click link below:
Texas Nursing Voice - January/February/March 2009, page 10
Registered Nurses at St. Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, CA faced the CNA for a 3rd time - The end result was the CNA withdrew it's petition for an election and WALKED away - click the link below:
CNA travels across the country
Article in Houston Business Journal
Article from Star-Telegram.com:
Texas Nurses Don't Need Unions
Recent articles from Houston Chronicle and related press release from
National Right to Work Foundation:
Other Pieces of Useful Information:
Websites
http://thenurseunchained.com/
http://www.unionfacts.com/
http://www.nrnpa.org/
http://www.nocna.com/
http://www.ourvoiceourchoice.org/
http://www.stopunions.com/home
New*** Re-election results at Cy-Fair Hospital are in - the union was voted in. Click link below to read more:
http://www.stopunions.com/cyfair_nurses
http://www.calhealth.org/public/press/node1.asp?ID=1
http://www.onevoice-ourvoice.com/home
http://www.nrtw.org/sherwood-cox-exposing-neutrality-agreement-hypocrisy
http://www.nrtw.org/
http://www.unionfreeamerica.com/index.htm
Hahnemann University Hospital - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A Tenet Hospital who fought and defeated the union - congratulations!
click the link below:
http://www.thepronurse.com/
Professional Nursing Organizations
Texas Nurses Association
Emergency Nurses Association
Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
American Association of Critical Care Nurses
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses
National Association of Neonatal Nurses
Oncology Nursing Society
Society of Pediatric Nurses
Infusion Nurses Society
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