Sure, it's only 3%, but we DESERVE it...
PWHS employees, you are very welcome, but you never need to thank us.
Hundreds have written in the past week informing us how the PWHS "leadership" has held a series of employee forums AND reinstated annual employee pay raises... just like we called upon them to do nearly a month ago. Our posts receive more than a thousand hits in the very first few days after publication. We have more than 500 subscribers and more than 400 PWHS employees have written with their support and actively participating in our weekly online chats.
This solidarity, this will to protect ourselves and OUR jobs is where our power lies. It is not coincidence or happenstance that the issues we address on this blog are then addressed by the powers that be at PWHS. We hold a light of truth up against their darkness and the shadow that is their lack of transparency. We MAKE them be accountable. We believe that if we had not held their feet to the fire, the reinstating of the annual merit increases would have been delayed until the merger (sale!) completion, so "leadership" could make employees believe that it was due to our new "partner" coming in to save the day.
This recent incident is just another example of the power that we employees and members of the PWHS community have. We've known this from the beginning, when it was ONLY an email, a mere single email that only a few dozen employees initially received that began being circulated among concerned hard working people titled 'Save PWHS' that lead to employee forums and the first ever release of financial data to employees.
That was back in March, now we are bigger, stronger and more organized than ever... and a 3% raise means a lot to those of us who aren't getting a bonus worth 6 months of our salaries like SOME people around PWHS...
Why the execs are smiling...
As we've been posting about from the very beginning, these are the facts: PWHS "leadership" execs will receive a bonus equal to SIX MONTHS worth of their salaries for remaining with PWHS upon successful completion of the Novant merger. They will receive a FULL year of their salary PLUS benefits as severance if the merger changes their role or makes their position redundant between now and the close of 2011.
Do not think for a moment that this is not accurate. If it were untrue, they would publicly decry and deny this information. This fact alone is proof that there is indeed a "bounty" as the CEO once claimed that there wasn't, and that PWHS leadership has a LOT of money and personal gain riding on the merger... a merger that at this point is seemingly inevitable and clearing regulatory approvals in secret and silence...
Operating in Secret: the new Board charter, the Regulatory process...
Without informing the PWHS employee population or the community that the Board allegedly serves, changes are being made to the bylaws and charter regulations that the PWHS Board operate under to allow for the merger and out-of-state control. This is being done in secret, unpublicized and without oversight.
The details of the regulatory approval process are also being done in secret. Any employee or citizen with a concern to voice would not know WHERE to being or WHO to address their issues to... which means that now, more than ever, is the time to
Stand up, ask questions, protect yourself and your co-workers...
AND YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DO THIS ANONYMOUSLY, BECAUSE YOU HAVE EVERY REASON TO FEAR REPRISALS FOR BEING PERCEIVED AS BEING ANTI-MERGER OR A "BOAT ROCKER" RIGHT NOW...
Now is the time to ask:
IS IT REALLY A MERGER AND PARTNERSHIP OR A SALE?
WHAT WILL THE MERGER MEAN FOR ME AND MY JOB?
WHAT WILL THE MERGER MEAN FOR MY DEPARTMENT?
WHAT WILL THE MERGER MEAN FOR MY SALARY?
WHAT WILL THE MERGER MEAN FOR MY BENEFITS?
WHAT WILL THE MERGER MEAN FOR MY P.D.O. BANK, MY RETIREMENT, MY INSURANCE?
WHY DO WE NEED A PARTNER WHILE OUR NEARBY NON-PROFIT NEIGHBORS CAN MAKE IT ON THEIR OWN?
Register your email address with us now for updates. The merger may seem inevitable but WE still have the power to protect ourselves and give our "leaders" NO CHOICE BUT TO LOOK OUT FOR US, the PWHS employee, and not just THEMSELVES and their lucrative employment agreements, containing their Stay Bonuses and the Severance Agreements that the REAL PWHS employees are not entitled to.
These employment agreements are WRITTEN-IN to the conditions of the sale/meger to Novant. "Leadership" is guaranteed these protections, these golden parachcutes. There is NO REASON why similar proections can not be guaranteed to the regular, hard working PWHS employee.
The time is NOW to stand up, ask questions and ACT, BEFORE our "leaders" cash out and leave, BEFORE PWHS is being run from North Carolina, just another branch of a company with only a powerless, puppet Board in place to look out for us. Northern Virginia is NOT North Carolina. It's up to us to MAKE them aknowledge that and realize that we will NOT allow PWHS to become just another powerless piece of an out-of-state corporate franchise. We challenge PWHS "leadership" to reveal the new Board charter and its new bylaws, and show us that there will be GENUINE local control, post-"partnership". At this juncture, we do not believe there will be. We can change this, though.
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