West Virginia ambulance service needs help bringing in a union.

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A large ambulance service in West Virgina (Jan-Care) is being courted by EMS unions right now. EMT's make around $8.75 an hour at Jan-care and Medic's make around $11.75 an hour and money aside, the safety and training is BAD! Last week, an EMT was killed in an ambulance crash due to drivers fatigue, they were on the last 3 hours of a 24 hour shift and heavy call load that day. The ambulance struck a slow-moving truck and ran into the back of it, killing the passenger EMT who was sleeping after a long 24 hour shift.
The service runs 100K plus calls a year and the members need your help. This union must come in. SEIU through NEMSA is the union and any help is appreciated by pro-union EMS personnel. The main debate to help the members understand how a union can help these fine folks. Its sad that it takes a union to get us this help, but we have run out of options.

Please help us get this union in.

Topix in beckley wv. labeled Jan don't care and Ambulance Collides With Tractor-Trailer While Responding To Crash; EMT Killed are the forums holding the debates.

I'd post the links, but I need 5 posts to be able to post a link. If someone else can post the link, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks for helping us.

 

[DeepFreeze]

A large ambulance service in West Virgina (Jan-Care) is being courted by EMS unions right now. EMT's make around $8.75 an hour at Jan-care and Medic's make around $11.75 an hour

How can anyone live on salary that low? I know the cost of living has to be lower down there then up here in the Northeast, but wow. Good luck

 

[bigbaldguy]

Medic pay where you work. 11.75
Flight attendant hourly pay (first year). 21.85 (13 years 56.20)

Medic sleeping accommodations Bunk bed at station/car seat
F/A sleeping accommodations Fluffy hotel bed with cable tv

Medic retirement plan. Pension/401k varies
F/A retirement. 401k with company match 100% up . to 10% plus profit sharing

Medic company perks. Free medical supplies if you don't
get caught
F/A company perks. Free flights on most airlines, cheap
Hotels, rental cars, cruises

Medic educational requirements. Some
F/A educational requirements. None

Medic risks involved. Blown back, blown knees, stabbed,
Shot, infected, beaten, wildly
Erratic sleep schedule, auto
accidents, food poisoning and a
crap load of other stuff
F/A risks involved. Plane might crash (but probably
not) food poisoning, running late
and getting in after room service
closes

Medics actual value to society. Medics equipped with tools and
training are of minimal value to
society (or so politicians and tax
Payers seem to believe). Actual
value to society pretty significant.
F/As value to society. Without peanuts and 4 ounces of
soda on a 42 minute flight
society as we know it would
collapse into a chaotic hell on
Earth the likes of which humans
have never known (or so the
average flyer seems to believe). In
reality actual value pretty
Negligible.

Medic. Non union
F/A. Union

Just for the record I am a flight attendant of 17 years and if I told you how much my pay breaks down to per actual hour worked your head would explode.

But yeah you know unions are bad and stuff

 

[DrParasite]

submitted that your post to FB.... so far everyone says go with flight attendant lol