1) No cross trained employees. This takes away flexibility to allocate human resources according to the dynamic needs of the healthcare provider. This means more people to do the same amount of work. Bottom line: Higher employee costs.
2) Unions forcing management to change their policies and procedures for the convenience of the union employees at the expense of the patients. Bottom line: Quality of health care goes down while waiting times go up.
3) Strikes. What are a few lives compared to the power and wealth of the SEIU?
For now, Stanford is staying put. PAMF is a different story. Both its Mountain View and San Carlos facilities are underutilized. I know. I have been to both. What if PAMF decided that keeping the Palo Alto Campus open was no longer economically viable and that other nearby locations could absorb the closing? And think of how much PAMF could get for selling its Palo Alto Campus to Facebook or Google. Great for those companies; not so good for current PAMF Palo Alto users. That prospect scares me witless. Don’t fall for the SEIU horse manure disguised as Ballot Measure F.
