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Looking at last months archives of Nursing Homes Magazine, I found this article:

Striving to be employers of choice

Quality resident care that enriches quality of life and independence is the primary service of senior living communities. What most senior living employers have known for years is that the employees are crucial to this mission. Our employers believe that the best way to help employees care for their residents is to care for the employees. To accomplish this, senior living providers believe in maintaining and enhancing positive, direct, and meaningful relationships with employees.

Hmm.

So what do they list up?

We will adhere to the highest ethical standards in all aspects of our operations, including our relationships with employees.

We will comply with the letter and spirit of all federal, state, and local laws.

We will maintain and enhance excellence in resident care and services.

We will maintain a positive, direct, and meaningful relationship with employees by providing rewarding and meaningful work, individual recognition, career development, fair wages, employer-sponsored health insurance and other fringe benefits, open communication, effective problem-solving, and an environment fostering mutual respect and dignity.

We recognize the right of employees to engage in union and other protected concerted activity, to make an educated and informed choice about representation, and to express that choice through the time-honored process of National Labor Relations Board–supervised and valid secret ballot elections.

Okkkay…that last part mystifies me. WHY would any organization come out and proclaim to be employee friendly YET speak of unions? If a company strives to be the best employer yet panders this union talk, then we know the company isn’t all serious about being the best.