[humanser] Request for Feedback

[JD TOWNSEND]

Hello Mary Ann:


I remember your story with some chills.  If I recall correctly employment 
options elsewhere in your area are limited.


Agencies, especially agencies in the for profit area, are fickle, head 
strong, and difficult.  Doing QA often demands a higher income, rather than 
a lesser.  But, your firm seems stuck on putting you in your wrongful place.


Without the union and without lengthy and difficult legal procedures it does 
not seem that your firm is likely to change.


Have you established a little private practice?  As you are not now acting 
as a clinician with your firm it would seem not to violate any ethical 
boundary.  I work for a hospital's outpatient mental health unit and do a 
small private practice to maintain my sanity.  I see a few folks and 
supervise clinicians.  Would this be a possibility for you?



JD Townsend, LCSW
Daytona Beach, Florida, Earth, Sol System
Helping the light dependent to see.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Ann Robinson" <brightsmile1953 at comcast.net>
To: "Human Services Mailing List" <humanser at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:10 PM
Subject: [humanser] Request for Feedback


> Hello everyone,
>
>
> Here is a brief update on my current work situation with a little history.
> In 2005, my therapist position was eliminated and I was laid off.  When 
> that occurred,
> I was a union officer who was striving to keep the union in tact.  Limited 
> licensed
> psychologists were being paid more than MSWs and LPCs.  I have an ACSW, 
> had 21 years
> of post masters experience at the time;  and I felt that there should be 
> equal pay
> for masters level professionals.  Social workers in my state are also 
> fully licensed.  My employer didn't agree.  The union remained,
> but I was laid off.
>
> I tried to move into lower positions, but my employer said she couldn't 
> accommodate
> me due to my blindness.  I didn't agree.  She then created a quality 
> management position
> with a substantial pay cut that I accepted.
> For reasons that I won't go into here, I'm still employed at the same 
> private for
> profit agency as the quality manager and corporate compliance officer ; 
> and I'm making
> nearly three dollars less per hour than I was earning as a clinician. The 
> agency decertified from the union
> in 2007.
>
> Today, I just learned that a young man with an LLMSW, who was hired in 
> April of this
> year and who has had no post masters experience, is making 91 cents an 
> hour less
> than I am. Negative memories have been triggered as have feelings of being 
> discriminated
> against once again.
>
> I don't know what recourse I have if any.  Thoughts and feedback would be 
> appreciated.
>
> Mary Ann Robinson,
> LMSW, ACSW, CAADC
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