County puts off UMC vote; union leader warns, ‘I’m going to fight you’

Published Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012 | 10:04 a.m.

Updated Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012 | 12:22 p.m.

A vote on a proposal that Clark County cede direct control of University Medical Center to a semi-autonomous board has been delayed, but not before raising the hackles of hospital union workers — and several county commissioners. Commissioners, after a lengthy discussion at their Wednesday meeting, decided to put off a vote until Dec. 5 on a measure that would send a proposal for changing oversight at the county-owned hospital to the 2013 Legislature. Among other things, the proposal would allow the newly formed board to have its strategic meetings behind closed doors. Union members who work at University Medical ...

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By williamtomany1

Nov. 14, 2012

2:54 p.m.

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Eliminate The Hospital Union
By lvfacts101 (Jerry Fink)

Nov. 15, 2012

6:08 a.m.

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Gee, what a concept. Getting government out of doing things it has no business doing in the first place. Of course the sink hole for tax dollars should be privatized. Let people with no political agenda run the facility instead of County Commissioners hiring for "political correctness" reasons, cobbling together patronage jobs for cronies & handing out contracts to campaign contributors. What, with the advent of Obamacare, everyone will have insurance, so that obviates the need for a taxpayer supported failure such as UMC, does it not? As for the unions. They are part of the problem at UMC, not part of the solution and I don't shed a tear for them. I have a feeling the employees would be better off without them, anyhow.