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If we had a union, this would not happen, sm. - justsayin

Posted: Dec 17, 2014

I have always thought that if we had a union, companies could not get away with this behavior. So why don't we have a union to represent us, any thoughts?

Imho, we fail to organize because we cannot use the email function on - this board without risking that it

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Was a Nuance HR plant tracing the message right back to our computers.

Please do not ever respond to any emails sent privately to you via this board. Stick to public comments back and forth and be safe!

You just really cannot be sure who is contacting you.

This is a significant factor in our inability to organize. If we COULD contact one another, I think we would have been organized a long time ago and they know it!

What about SEIU? - Will

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Could they help?

Unions have no way to contact all the, sm - justsayin

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transcriptionists in the United States because they have no list of employees to contact. Went through this when I worked at a hospital; we all shared other employees names who gave us permission because they were interested. That is what the above post meant; MTs have no real way to communicate on these boards for fear of repercussion.

SEIU - IDK

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Have you contacted them for info???

I have - they will respond - wheres_my_job

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union organizing is a difficult process. You have to get the ball rolling through other social media. It would be great if SEIU put out a call, very public, that it was looking to organize MTs. So MTs could SAFELY respond to that very public call from SEIU - you'd cut out any of the middle people. Give it a try.

If fast food is getting organized, I think MTs can get organized too. Even behind the "cyber veil" the "cyber curtain" - I'm thinking Soviet style "iron curtain."

That's what the Internet can be like.

i would join - a union for MTs

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I think we should have had a union long ago. It is very hard to organize MTs b/c we are all remote and companies apparently frown on us knowing each other. Ok, well at least Nuance does. They don't want us to organize is any sort of way possible b/c they know that they are wrong. However, I believe that if information to join a union that would truly fight for us would be posted on social media, any social media, MTs will respond and it can happen. There is too much expected out of us for minimum wage pay. It simply is not acceptable.

a union for MTs - Alice

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I have felt this way for a long time, we are in dire need of a union..we need someone to speak for us.. Since hospitals outsource work to businesses, there are way too many middle men, they are not transcribing bringing in the only money to be made but yet they make the decisions that effect us...my decreases every year..not to mention no raise in over a decade,, do not make minimum wage at times yet we are to know medications, labs and their parameters, surgical equipment....isnt it why doctors costs so much to go..we are paying for their knowledge/education....I wish there was some way to get a union for all of us hardworking, underpaid, underappreciated MTs.

union for MTs - Alice

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Why couldnt SEIU use MT STAR to contact MTs?

My sentiments exactly!! See my previous post... - nunya

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NM.

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