RobDownSouth
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Wisconsin is a "right to work" state (aka "fuck you unions").
This basically means an employer can fire your any time they want, and you have no recourse.
In sleepy Appleton, Wisconsin, there are two hospitals: Ascension and Thedacare.
Ascenscon needed radiology workers. They offered an employee of rival Thedacare a raise in salary and a much nicer benefits package to come work for them. He said he would. He told his current coworkers about the sweet deal he obtained. Six more employees of the Thedacare's 11 person radiology staff applied to Ascension and obtained similar packages. All of them put in resignation notices.
Not so fast, sez Thedacare.... you never gave us a chance to make a counteroffer! Okay, said the departing workers, we'll call your bluff. What is your counter offer?
Ummm.....Thedacare decided to offer the departing emplyoyees..nothing. "Same salary, same benefits" said Thedacare management.
Buh bye! The employees of Thedacare's radiology unit were set to be finish up their two weeks notice this past Friday.
Thedacare retained a "crisis PR firm" and filed a lawsuit asking that their "at will" employees (who did NOT have a non-compete contract.....or any kind of contract for that matter) had no right to leave the company to work for a competitor...it would leave the community "at risk" during the pandemic if they could not get timely x-rays!
Teh horror!
Thedacare got a sympathetic Republican judge who entered a temporary restraining order against the exiting Thedacare employees....if they didn't work for Thedacare, they were prohibited from working anywhere until he made his final ruling. (!!!!)
The chronically unemployed contingent here on the Politics board (AJ, BoBo, Ishmael, OldJourno, etc etc) have long proselytizes that "iffn you don't like your job, go work sumplace else!" (a "do as I say, not as I do" situation since all of them are on the government dole). These radiology workers took that advice, and now are paying a heavy price.
Since when do employers own their employees?
https://www.postcrescent.com/story/...acare-court-battle-over-employees/6607417001/
This basically means an employer can fire your any time they want, and you have no recourse.
In sleepy Appleton, Wisconsin, there are two hospitals: Ascension and Thedacare.
Ascenscon needed radiology workers. They offered an employee of rival Thedacare a raise in salary and a much nicer benefits package to come work for them. He said he would. He told his current coworkers about the sweet deal he obtained. Six more employees of the Thedacare's 11 person radiology staff applied to Ascension and obtained similar packages. All of them put in resignation notices.
Not so fast, sez Thedacare.... you never gave us a chance to make a counteroffer! Okay, said the departing workers, we'll call your bluff. What is your counter offer?
Ummm.....Thedacare decided to offer the departing emplyoyees..nothing. "Same salary, same benefits" said Thedacare management.
Buh bye! The employees of Thedacare's radiology unit were set to be finish up their two weeks notice this past Friday.
Thedacare retained a "crisis PR firm" and filed a lawsuit asking that their "at will" employees (who did NOT have a non-compete contract.....or any kind of contract for that matter) had no right to leave the company to work for a competitor...it would leave the community "at risk" during the pandemic if they could not get timely x-rays!
Teh horror!
Thedacare got a sympathetic Republican judge who entered a temporary restraining order against the exiting Thedacare employees....if they didn't work for Thedacare, they were prohibited from working anywhere until he made his final ruling. (!!!!)
The chronically unemployed contingent here on the Politics board (AJ, BoBo, Ishmael, OldJourno, etc etc) have long proselytizes that "iffn you don't like your job, go work sumplace else!" (a "do as I say, not as I do" situation since all of them are on the government dole). These radiology workers took that advice, and now are paying a heavy price.
Since when do employers own their employees?
https://www.postcrescent.com/story/...acare-court-battle-over-employees/6607417001/