Individual and Collective Bargaining

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Individual and Collective

Bargaining
Individual and Collective Bargaining

It is the formalized decision making process


between representatives of management and
representatives of labor to negotiate wages and
conditions of employment, including work hours,
working environment, and fringe benefits of
employment( e.g., vacation time, sick leave and
personal leave).
Advantages

• It avoids unnecessary legal proceedings and the


issue is sorted out of the Court.
• It promotes worker’s democracy and worker’s
participation in management.
• It helps in establishing harmonious relationship
between employee and the employer.
• It emphasizes on the interests and benefits of
both parties.
• It eliminates unnecessary expenditure and
avoids bitterness among involved parties.
Disadvantages
• Increased wages and improved facilities for
workers will indirectly result in high prices for
goods and services.
• Consumers are affected badly due to price rise.
• The collective bargaining process may not be
fair at all times; the decision is often influenced
by power and politics.
• In case of failure of the collective bargaining
agreement, the immediate consequence is
strike or lock-out.
Collective Bargaining
• Through a written agreement, both employer
and employees legally commit themselves to
observe the terms and conditions of
employment.
• Collective bargaining is a controversial issue
among nurses.
Collective Bargaining

• Some nurses consider collective bargaining to be


unprofessional and contrary to the nature of
nursing.
• Others argue that collective bargaining is
necessary to obtain control of nursing practice
and economic security.
Collective Bargaining
• The collective bargaining process involves the
recognition of a certified bargaining agent for
the employees.
• The agent can be a union, a trade association, or
a professional organization.
Collective Bargaining

• Because nursing practice is a service to people


(often ill people), striking presents a moral
dilemma to many nurses
• Actions taken by nurses can affect the safety of
the people
• When faced with a strike, each nurse must make
an individual decision to cross or not to cross a
picket line.
Collective Bargaining

• Nursing students may also be faced with


decisions about crossing picket lines in the event
of a strike at a clinical agency used for learning
experiences
• The ANA supports striking as a means of
achieving economic and general welfare.
Collective Bargaining

• Collective bargaining is more than the negotiating of


salary terms and hours of work; it is a continuous
process in which day to day working problems and
relationships can be handled in orderly and
democratic manner
• Day to day difficulties or grievances are handled
through the grievance procedure, a formal plan
established in the contract that outlines the
channels for handling and settling grievances
through progressively higher levels of
administration.
Collective Bargaining
A grievance is any dispute, difference , controversy
or disagreement arising out of the terms and
conditions of employment.
Categories & examples of grievances
Category Examples
Contract violations Shift or weekend work is assigned inequitably
A nurse is dismissed without cause
Violations of A female nurse is paid less than a male nurse
federal and state for the same work
law
Appropriate payment is not given for overtime
work
Minority group nurses are not promoted
Management Appropriate locker room facilities are not
responsibilities provided
Safe client care is jeopardized by inadequate
staffing
Categories & examples of grievances
Category Examples

Violation of agency rules Performance evaluations are


conducted only at termination of
employment, but the contract requires
annual evaluations

A vacation period is assigned without


the nurse’s agreement, as required in
personnel policies.
Legal Rights: Problems Faced by Nursing Staff in India 

• In India, nurses are not given their due


recognition and are often deprived of their legal
rights at the workplace and in the society.
Some main problems suffered by nurses in India
include:
– difficult working conditions
– low salary
– slow promotion opportunities
– lack of job security and related benefits
– increased risk of sexual harassment at the workplace
• Study by Sreelekha Nair and Madelaine Healey on “A
Profession on the Margins: Status Issues in Indian
Nursing” provides shocking information on the
status of nurses in India. The study indicates that
sexual harassment is an unavoidable experience for
nurses.
• The study states that this happens to nurses not only
at the hands of superiors and doctors but by ward
boys, relatives of patients and other subordinate
male workers in the health care system.
• The study states that nurses on night shifts are most
vulnerable to such threats. 
• A more popular organization is the Delhi Nurses
Union, which has used collective bargaining
techniques to assert legal rights and push
strongly for several initiatives including changing
the short nursing uniforms to salwar kameez
and saree.
Kerala Nurses’ struggle against bond trap

P.K.Thampi, former president, Kerala Nursing


Association,said government should make an
effective legislation to bring in the greedy
managements under control.
Nursing –Future/Futuristic
Nursing
Computer technology

• Clinical scenarios can be displayed in this virtual


world allowing students and nurses to learn new
skills and to revise the skills which they have
already learned.
• Online continuing education and formal
education may continue as a trend in the near
future
• Telehealth/Telemedicine
• Nurses will be able to request medications via a
mobile phone text message sent to robots
which will then retrieve and dispatch the
medications via a network of pneumatic tubes,
with a text message returned to the nurse when
the medication has arrived.

• Robotics-Some of the hospitals use them for


delivery of supplies and even trays
Other features include more single-bed rooms,
wider corridors in anticipation of robots
transporting linen and food to wards in the near
future.
Telemedicine
Meaning

Use of computers and telecommunication


technologies to provide medical information and
services from distant location.
Telemedicine is a technology where medical
information is transferred through interactive
audiovisual media for the purpose of consulting,
and sometimes remote medical procedures or
examinations.
The Karnataka Telemedicine project linked the
Narayana Hrudayalaya, a super specialty hospital
for cardiac care at Bangalore with the district
hospital, Chamarajanagar and the Vivekananda
Memorial Trust Hospital at Saragur in south interior
Karnataka.
Scope of telemedicine

• Help the rural patient to save money and get


specialist opinion
• Multispeciality healthcare to common man
• Promote medical education through training of
staff.
• The use of two way video allows the client and
health care provider to see, hear and talk to
each other.
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