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Mayito
Member since Jun 1, 2018
Recent Comments
Re: “UVM Medical Center Nurses Vote in Favor of Strike”
I applaud the nurses decision. A landslide vote is indicative of the rotten, corrupt administrative practices at UVM. Nurses, physicians and ancillary staff are the true backbone of the hospital and deserve fair treatment.
Food for thought:
In 2016, 15 UVM Medical Center employees were paid a total of $10.7 million in salaries. CEO John Brumsted received $2.1 million that year. He received a raise of more than $500,000 in 2015, the same year they were told during contract negotiations that UVM Medical Center hadnt budgeted for raises for nurses. Run down the list of executives making close to a million dollars a year and you'll find and ungodly amount of corporate greed.
UVM Medical Centers actual profit its surplus in 2017 was $25 million. They spent $6 million to rebrand themselves as UVM Medical Center in 2014.
Surely there is room in the budget for staffing and wage increases.
Posted by
Mayito
on 06/13/2018 at 4:21 PM
Re: “Nurses, UVM Medical Center Remain at Odds Over Contract”
Most of the nursing demands are not outrageous. Physicians, nurses, and staff are victims of a greedy, self-serving administration that has forced many needed services from both generalists and specialists to leave the area. Administrative salaries, bonuses, and benefits are outpacing and outperforming those of the actual hospital labor force. As administrators leave work early in their Teslas and porches, others are left working overtime without compensation. Its entirely criminal. A crisis is looming and those in charge are apathetic and ultimately have no sense of ethics, morals, or accountability.
Posted by
Mayito
on 06/01/2018 at 10:54 PM
Re: “Burlington City Council Urges Nurses, Hospital to Settle Their Differences”
We ALL want both sides to come together on an agreement. One side has to acknowledge theyve been underpaying nurses for years while they give themselves huge bonuses, pay raises, and create more useless middle management positions that consume payroll budgets. The tone of this administration has to change as well if there is to be any compromise or healing. This love it or leave it policy does not work in this job climate or community. Intimidation, lies, bullying and institutional suppression need to end. We need better leaders who are willing to admit to their mistakes and be able to SHARE equity. Its in the best interests of the community they say they supposedly serve.