Locked Out
But Selden doesn’t think the union contract negotiations have anything to do with the suspensions.
“I think it would be less that it’s the middle of contract negotiations, and more that they have a new chief nurse executive and that person may be taking a different tack,” Selden told the Journal this week.
He did say it was unusual that the nurses were initially put on unpaid administrative leave, which implies wrongdoing and a need to keep the nurses away from the hospital during the investigation. But that doesn’t seem to be the case here, he said. “You’ll see this where there’s some kind of bookkeeping accusation, or something like that,” he said.
That the leave was unpaid was particularly puzzling, he said. It implied a need for discipline.
“I raised a strong objection to that,” he said. “And at least St. Joe’s reversed that decision, on Friday the 26th, and the nurses are on paid leave now [for the entire leave]. But now it’s been two weeks and we’re still waiting to sit down with management. And that’s a long time to have folks on leave, either paid or unpaid.”
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Comment / By concerned / July 6, 2009, 12:08 p.m.
this is the tip of the iceberg, Northcoast Journal. Better dig deeper - how much money St. Joseph is giving to the doctors to lock in their business, decisions made to control our health care, and crying poor for community solicitations for the new building. This out-of-the-area corporation does not have our best health care interest in mind
Comment / By Diana / July 6, 2009, 6:41 p.m.
Yes Dig Deeper? SJE would not suspend nurses without an obvious reason. I bet money that something big is underneath it but all you do in this article is condemn St. Joe’s. How about some common sense.
Comment / By Debbie Cronk / July 6, 2009, 7:59 p.m.
I was in a similar situation in Portland Oregon and put on paid leave. My union rep told me it was because the didn’t have anything on me but wanted me out of the way and out of the hospital for a reason. I called in EEOC for age discrimination and they finally called it off. It is costing them more to keep everyone on paid leave while having others work overtime to cover the shifts.
Comment / By david / July 10, 2009, 11:45 p.m.
SJE has patient care on their priority list. You don’t suspend people because of nothing….you supend them for their nursing practice? Union affiliation? No way and if there was nothing done by these nurses then why hasn’t the Union got their jobs back? It 1 + 1 = 2.