You know, there are unions in place already. Here is their payscales....
Posted By: Union Chick on 2009-01-12
In Reply to: First poll on what constitutes fair MT wages - MT4MTs
Full-time and part-time employee hospital positions payscales are as follows:
MT Level 1 to Level 3=
$23.68 to $28.70 per hour plus benefits which include 401b, health insurance, dental, vision, life insurance, Wellness Programs, 24 PTO days, plus paid holidays and a few other perks.
Did you not do your homework?
The payscales you have in this post are way too low.
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Unions exist to make money for unions.
That's the truth. They don't care if companies close because they can't afford to pay union wages, and then the workers have nothing.
Unions are on the side of the Unions!
You have a very glorified view of unions. For many years, unions have been associated with graft, corruption, and greed, and for good reason. The unions are in business for the unions, period. Unions will twist the truth to whatever extent necessary to pit workers against management. That is how they stay in business. Have you ever seen info about the salaries that union bosses make? They are atrocious. Unions are a BUSINESS. They are in business for themselves. They are NOT charitable organizations out to help workers, although that is what they say. They will only help the worker to the extent that it lines their pockets.
Unions
Yeah. Unions have worked really well for the auto workers.
I don't see where unions have done anything for anybody.
My brother was in the aircraft mechanics union. He paid BIG dues. He worked 3 years without a contract with a major airline. When they were negotiating, the airline told them that they would give them their raises on paper but that they were going belly up and would use the mechanics as their scapegoat because they demanded more money. That is exactly what happened. The airline went belly up and the mechanics were the scapegoats. They never saw one penny of any raise.
Unions are just another big business. They take the workers' money, and the workers are just puppets doing what they're told, striking when they're told, unable to feed their family because of unions.
Unions
 WE CAN'T WIN!! So I guess I'm just going to shut up and type some more!
Unions not the answer
I strongly disagree that unions will solve the problems afflicting the MT field. As long as there is outsourcing and other alternatives to traditional transcription, such as voice recognition, there will continue to be downward pressure on MT wages. Years ago when I worked in Human Resources for health care facilities, I sat on the other side of the negotiating table negotiating union contracts (our nurses were unionized), and I am appalled to this day at the underhanded tactics used by the unions. And talk about overinflated salaries - it is truly shocking what union officials make, and it all comes out of the pockets of union members who get a rather dubious return on their union dues. I just don't believe unionization will solve our problems. I think the only thing that will stop the downward pressure on MT pay is if an end is put to outsourcing (and I don't think its unrealistic to think that could happen at some point).
I've been in unions and know what
they can do for you. Without unions there would be no vacation pay, sick days, 40 hour week (for some).
I would very definitely love to be part of a union and also would be willing to strike if necessasry to make this happen.
Like all unions, strength is in the numbers so let's hope people support the idea.
Unions would help us get some recognition
Currently it's lacking 100%. Look at AAMT/AHDI -- they don't represent us, they're killing us. They need to be investigated and put on a short leash ASAP.
obama and unions
link The big money companies would not allow and would fight it big time. I know one southern California hospital sure did fight unionization
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/us/politics/09labor.html
It is too late for unions. It never would have worked.
bebe
If IC's can't join EXISTING unions, then maybe
it's time for MTs to form a union that DOES include IC's, especially since they are a large part of this industry. They deserve better wages, too.
Completely agree. Before unions,
people were forced to work 7 days a week, 12 hour days, no benefits, no overtime, no minimum wage, no safety standards, etc etc etc.... THANK YOU UNIONS.
Unions haven't helped much in years
Sadly, they've become more of a corporation themselves. You pay dues and if a conpany wants to bail or relocate or outsource, they still can and do.
Truth about unions - good for employees
My huband is a union member. Union membership is voluntary, with it you pay dues, in exchange your union officials bargain with the company for fair wages, benefits, and pensions. A union signs a contract and during that time, the employees have job security. If there is low work because the offshore companies messed up or shipments didn't come in, it is their union that pays them subpay to compensate the difference between average earnings and unemployment if he has a week off. Also, we pay nada for health insurance premiums, only $10 for office visit, and $5/$15 for Rx, 0 for dental 50% for orthodontics, and $20 for glasses. Without the union supporting these workers they would have no ground to stand on with regard to pay and benefits and working conditions. Thanks to the union, if my husband works Saturdays its time and a half, Sunday are double-time and heaven forbid a holiday he gets paid triple time. When he retires, we keep the benefits and a nice pension. Unions are not all about the mob - I have family in chicago and it is not as you describe it. Chicago is a high crime area and it's not the unions that are causing the problem, it is the quality of people who work in SOME of the factories which are lower paying and the socioeconomic drive that results in shady business and your so called mobter and gangster life.
Well, MY experience with unions is the exact opposite...
My dad was in a textile worker's union for 35 years. He had to go through a strike when he had 3 small kids. For six weeks, he received $20 a week and only two bags of groceries for the whole duration. He lost his job at 35 years from the plant closing. That is not to mention that his union wages had us always barely making it, and the union never once did a thing about the conditions they had to work in. He has struggled with a form of bladder cancer for 19 years from working in those conditions and the chemicals used there.
Ask the auto manufacturers what the union has done for them. Yes, the workers are making it fine laid off, but the companies are near death. Those companies feed our nation. We're 1000 miles from Detroit and our livelihood depends on those car companies staying up and running. My husband's company does not make a thing related to cars, but the company that OWNS his company does.
Bottom line is that if this industry has come to the point that we are discussing needing a union, then maybe we need to either get government intervention to standardize the industry, set regulations about ONLY US work for US medical records, and use only certified workers, OR we need to go back to college for our next career choice.
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Unions in Canada, MTs make $23 hour plus Yep
I communicate with an MT in Canada and that is what she relayed.
Not me. I hope there is a special place reserved for them in a very hot place.
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I though unions not legal in some states (right-to-work states) nm
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No - one place is the same as the next.
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Don't use yours all in one place!!!!!
SPREAD the joy!!
Me neither. Bad place IMO
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I think so, from the second place.
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Bad Place!!
If you like to get paid for your work, then I would suggest not working for her!! She still owes me quite a bit of money, the pay is ALWAYS late and not always correct. She is also extremely moody and will take everything out on you if she's having a bad day. She says that her VR is really good, but I couldn't make much with it, and usually ended up typing the reports over for 6 cents/line.
Don't know why they ask in the first place if they
aren't going to take into the consideration what people have to say. There have been a few others that did the same thing and came back here to post how sorry they were they didn't listen to the negative posts.
This place is not for you then.
to have you and your strive for excellence attitude. Try another company right now so that you don't lose your touch. Best wishes...
If MQ MTs are looking to that place, .
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Run from this place!
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If you have what a place is looking for, it should take
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There is a place for everyone, though you are still
in the honeymoon phase. If you're happy I'm happy for you.
Is it possible to try a third place?
Third might be a charm. No matter what you choose, trust your heart. Good luck!
Why would someone place an ad SM
and use an address like that? You have to wonder. Same goes for people who use completely unprofessional emails to communicate with companies about jobs, mommy2joey, lovinmama, all that stuff. It's ridiculous.
My place
I just had an email tonight asking about where I worked because of another posting here and like I told them, was chatting on here with a lady, told her where I worked and about a month later she applied there, got hired, received the foot pedal and then nothing. She asked me to talk to this person (we both knew her) and when I did, my company got in a twit, saying they could do their own hiring??? and all I did was to ask them about getting back in touch with MS X as she was waiting to go to work. That was probably about a year ago and I never did that again. I feel almost 100% your low count is exclusively because of Chartscript. I have always since the 80s done straight at least 2000 or better a day whatever system I was on UNTIL in 2000 and something started and dropped like a leaded balloon. I gave up a job that was not hard work at all, but was not going to work for less lines than I knew I could do. Immediately went back up in next job.
Re: Your place
I would not want you to get into trouble w/ telling me anything about where you work. However, you have given me encouragement that looking for a position at another place that does not use Chartscript is a good idea. I have been questioning whether learning a new platform would be worth it or would I still be in the same situation. However, now I'm excited to think my line count could double or more!! Thanks for the info and encouragement!
I think this is the right place, but I don't know if I can help you.
Maybe try testing on their sites. I only ever got an interview after testing for the companies, not just forwarding my resume.
Good luck and sorry not much help.
Still there but looking. This is not a place
to hang out if you want to be happy and productive. It is pretty political and either you are in tight with your boss or you get the worst of the worst. The favorites get the best dictators, work, accounts, and the rest of us are the swabbing crew. I cannot live on what I make here a day. And the Beyondtxt program really sucks.
where is this place at and who is the sm
supervisor. We use to have a Med Trans wehre I live and they moved. If it is the same company, forget it.
I think we were at the same place.
I think we may have been hired even for the same account, which vanished...at first fed 'hang in there', then excuses, and finally they just quit mentioning it entirely. The alternate I got (which of course wasn't what I really was looking for days-wise or hour-wise) is similarly dwindling so that I'm chasing reports and it's a rare day that I can actually make my line count, even flexing to the wee hours. Fortunately, I'm getting better at reading between the lines, so I'm not going down with the ship like I have in the past.
From what I see, VR will never take the place
of MTs. I work on Escription and really love it but really according to the report, some might not have very many, others could have more. However, having said that I have stated before and will state again, do not like to type straight anymore and, and- we have so many ESLs now that our platform is really good about getting theirs so my head does not ache so much in trying to figure out most. If no errors on VR, then where would we be? I am not complaining at all.
I could tell you more about that place
I know a woman who walked out when she got emails, 2 of the managers emailing back and forth and accidentally sent to this woman, and talking bad about her. Can we say oops!
Yeah, same place.
I'm sure it's legitimate but I just didn't like the tone of the documents they sent me - a little heavy handed, a little too much emphasis on being "flexible." And of course the business about not paying the transcriptionist until they get paid. Search the archives on wahm.com. I think some of those gals had worked there.
Would you shell out $25 to place that ad?
Not me! I'm halfway tempted to apply just to see if this Gilbert gil is serious!
It's a great place...sm
It really depends on what you are looking for in a company. This is a very different company to work for. For example, you don't work in pools, you are not constantly being bumped around, and there always has been plenty of work, even around holidays where everyone else is fighting for work because there is none. I was so shocked that after Christmas there wasn't a major slow-down. It's mostly clinic accounts, so you if your work is caught up, you don't have to work holidays. There is no deciding which holiday you want off or which you have to work because if you just do your work, you get off. Of course, if you want to work the holiday, there is always something to work on if you speak up.
Anyway, I have worked for just about all of the nationals. I have been with Wordzxpressed for over a year now and plan on staying.
The best place I have worked
nm
Then Transcend is the place for you
They have plans to switch all their accounts over the VR. There will be some typing, but no guarantees as to what kind of dictators or how much you will be getting.
A new company would not be the place to be then. nm
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WebbScribe - Is this the same place that
supposedly ripped people off by not paying them. They have an ad floating around and I was wondering if there was anyone around who knew about them. I couldn't find anything on my searches. Thanks all. 
Not a good place
I had a 30-second interview and was told my team leader would be contacting me. He never did. It took me DAYS to get somebody to send me the account specifics, samples, etc., and it was never management who did it, it was a lady I met on here who faxed me what she had. They throw you in there head first without the information you need. They promise bonuses if you don't take a day off and make production...well I never ever saw it EVER. Right before I left they sent out an email saying there would be none for that particular period because they didn't make enough profit. The account managers get paid based on how many lines we do and if the account stays current, so expect constant emails from them saying how they didn't make anything this pay period and there are bills to pay, etc.
Insurance: The one person doing insurance is something else. You get a big packet in the mail and you have to figure out yourself which you are eligible for, what percentage for life insurance, etc. If you email him and ask him about anything, he doesn't answer. I had been there 5 months and still did not have insurance cards for insurance I had been paying for all along. I had to go to the top person in the company to get him to email me back. He just doesn't do anything.
QA: There were 2 on the accounts I worked on. One was pretty nice and helpful but extremely overworked. It was actually her who told me what I needed to know regarding account specifics because the first two months I was there, I never so much as got an email from my account manager. The other one once sent me an email telling me I needed to go back to school and how STUPID the mistakes were and turns out it wasn't even MY report!!! I called her on it and told her that is NOT the way to talk to people, especially new hires who have no information to start with. She was just on a huge power trip and talked to people like dogs. Had I been the actual person she meant to email and talked to like that, I would have been gone right then and there.
PLATFORM: It's okay when it works. When tech support, and I use that term loosely, installed it on my computer, he wiped out my Stedman's that was associated with my MSWord. Years of adding gone!! You don't get paid for what you have to fill in on the header page. It froze up a lot and sometimes would get stuck on all caps. It was very very slow. I had to highlight and copy every single report because 2 out of 3 times, it would freeze and I would lose it and the backup retrieval feature didn't work.
The accounts were very good, best I've had, but a combination of the management, system, etc., just wasn't worth the trouble. They would tell us the profit margin was low and then send out an email with pictures of them partying somewhere, patting themselves on the back for the work their MTs do. You never got a thank you for anything. A bunch of the management members are married and/or related to each other which would be fine if anybody had experience. Our account was assigned a 21-year-old manager who had never done this type of work before. I don't think you should manage people if you can't do the work yourself. I would send her mistakes in the automatic templates, doctors list, etc., and she had no clue what to do with it.
Getting the required lines was difficult for some reason. At other jobs I would do a minimum of 1500-1800 per day and with this system, I was lucky to get 900. I know the system freezing up was part of it, but on the rare occasion when it worked, it was still very difficult.
They constantly call you to help with this account or that account, which is okay if it's within your time frame to work. I would get calls an hour before shift start from the secondary account person saying are you working today? I never missed a single day while I was there and always worked OT, so there was no reason for this and I found it quite annoying.
No place I could recommend!!!!!!
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You know what-OSI seems like a great place to me, but - sm
i have over 10 years experience and they offered me 7 cents a line to start!! That is quite low for someone with the experience that I have. A starting rate of 9 cents a line would win me right over. I wonder why there is such a difference? Makes you wonder. well, if something has changed since I was offered a position, within the last 6 months, let us hear about it. TIA
Yep! Every place I ever worked for except
for the place I'm working for now. My very first job right out of school was for a woman who owned her own company, and she had a son and a niece working for her. The niece did more than her fair share, and in fact we became good friends after our dogs started having play dates together on our days off. Her son, on the other hand, did all the easy psych work with all the templates and then went on to steal the ER work (also only docs with templates), and surpise... he always had the highest line counts of anyone. Those were the days also when we got paid for headers and footers, patient info, everything, so he was making out like a bandit.
Also worked for MQ in-house when they had an office here close to my home. Some people sat there and typed the hardest account we had all day, every day and barely made their minimum lines, and there was this one person who would type nothing but ER notes that had very long templates and ended up being an average of 3 pages each. Then she had the nerve to brag about how big her checks were with all her bonuses and incentive. I got a chance to type those two days in a row and I made 1400 lines a day more than I usually did on my main account.
I say share the fortune, be it good or bad. The sooner we all get the bad work out, the sooner we can all get to the good work and start making money. I also had one supervisor tell me that I do the harder work because I make more cpl, but hey, if you are sitting there typing easy stuff all day and using templates, you are making more money in the long run.
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