Tweet
I am currently employed by a large corporate healthcare system as a hospitalist. We have, I'm guessing, 50 or more hospitalists in our group. We're also considered part of the "inpatient institute" which employs other specialists in the hospital. I currently have an "optional" status contract with them. Basically it means I'm not obligated to work at all. I can just pick up shifts when I feel like it or none at all. But, obviously, I don't get a regular paycheck or certain benefits.
Anyway, it's the end of the fiscal year and the end of our current 3 year contracts. Everyone is up for renewal with a new contract. I'm interested in going to a 0.8 FTE contract with them for work at a new hospital that is now in our system. I know there will be a raise coming because I asked about it. But, that's all that I know.
What bothers me right now is that they still haven't given us a copy of the contract to review and it's almost the end of the month. Last time we had to sign new contracts they gave us a copy at the monthly meeting on a friday before the end of the month and told us that we had to sign them and return them by monday if "we don't want an interruption in our pay."
This year we got an email from them stating that "due to scheduling conflict" our monthly meeting has been moved from Fri Jun 23 to Thur Jun 29. This was immediately suspicious to me of course because Thursday is one day before the end of the month...Friday Jun 30 is the last day of the month. So I know what they are going to say at that meeting is "Here are your new contracts...You have to return it signed by tomorrow if you want to avoid an interruption in your pay" Obviously they are trying to prevent us from getting these contracts reviewed and/or working together to collectively bargain with them.
I doubt that anyone else in my group is paying attention to this because they are all mindless sheep. More than likely people will start signing immediately without even reading it. So, I know there is precious little I can do about this. I've considered writing an anonymous letter to everyone and placing it in everyone's mailbox to open their eyes to this BS and try to get them to pay attention, but I feel like I'd just be placing myself at risk and people wouldn't listen anyway.
Regardless of what everyone else does, I'm going to have my contract reviewed and I'm going to try to negotiate with them on several points that I've been unhappy with in our current contract. However, I know it's not going to work because as soon as the other sheep sign their contracts we've lost all negotiating power.
Has anyone else had this sort of issue? Is there anything that can be done about it? It just really makes me angry that the company is so blatantly preventing us from having a chance to negotiate the terms of the contract. It makes me feel like they are not a trustworthy organization to work for.
Anyway, it's the end of the fiscal year and the end of our current 3 year contracts. Everyone is up for renewal with a new contract. I'm interested in going to a 0.8 FTE contract with them for work at a new hospital that is now in our system. I know there will be a raise coming because I asked about it. But, that's all that I know.
What bothers me right now is that they still haven't given us a copy of the contract to review and it's almost the end of the month. Last time we had to sign new contracts they gave us a copy at the monthly meeting on a friday before the end of the month and told us that we had to sign them and return them by monday if "we don't want an interruption in our pay."
This year we got an email from them stating that "due to scheduling conflict" our monthly meeting has been moved from Fri Jun 23 to Thur Jun 29. This was immediately suspicious to me of course because Thursday is one day before the end of the month...Friday Jun 30 is the last day of the month. So I know what they are going to say at that meeting is "Here are your new contracts...You have to return it signed by tomorrow if you want to avoid an interruption in your pay" Obviously they are trying to prevent us from getting these contracts reviewed and/or working together to collectively bargain with them.
I doubt that anyone else in my group is paying attention to this because they are all mindless sheep. More than likely people will start signing immediately without even reading it. So, I know there is precious little I can do about this. I've considered writing an anonymous letter to everyone and placing it in everyone's mailbox to open their eyes to this BS and try to get them to pay attention, but I feel like I'd just be placing myself at risk and people wouldn't listen anyway.
Regardless of what everyone else does, I'm going to have my contract reviewed and I'm going to try to negotiate with them on several points that I've been unhappy with in our current contract. However, I know it's not going to work because as soon as the other sheep sign their contracts we've lost all negotiating power.
Has anyone else had this sort of issue? Is there anything that can be done about it? It just really makes me angry that the company is so blatantly preventing us from having a chance to negotiate the terms of the contract. It makes me feel like they are not a trustworthy organization to work for.
Comment