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Use our Collective Voice to be Heard - Just Me

Posted: Jun 16, 2013

Remember when police would use "Blue Days" with mass numbers calling in on a given day to make their voice heard? MTs have been "divided and conquered" because of the very nature of our job - sitting at home isolated in indivudal offices. What kind of impact would it have on Nuance and other companies of their kind if half of their work force was "sick" on a given day? Just a thought, sisters and brothers. We will continue to be mistreated and discounted until we find our collective voice.

oh gees, here we go again - I say it is too late. give it a rest

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nm

here we go again. been there, done that, didn't make a dent. - but lets do start that fight again shall we? ugh

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NM

I agree... - apparently there

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are plenty of people who do this job who are happy enough with the status quo and have no interest in changing anything. The rest of us who hate it or can't make it should be looking to change ourselves and let the happy ones have it.

Happy or not makes no difference. Can't fix a problem starting - another problem known to have failed anyway

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bowing out now, redundant, tired old subject.

tell that to the former Walmart employees - gone temp

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There are some rolling stones that you can't stop. Even Walmart has decided to stop hiring employees and have gone to using temporary employees only to avoid cutting their profit margins. I think anyone supporting collective bargaining in today's economy needs their head examined.

none, it would have none - next topic

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You can't get MTs to agree on anything. Telling them to take off w/o pay, notice, or ethical reason is just ridiculous.

This idea has never gained traction for a good reason.

Absolutely none. - They would just send more to India

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There is no such thing as a collective voice any more. Not in this industry. Go ahead. Take a day off en mass. Nuance won't give a flying rat's patootie. That just gives them all the ammunition they and M Modal need to say "see, we can't find qualified transcriptionists in the US. We HAVE to ship everything to India."

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