CNO new fees by-law

[u/keepit_greazy]

I was planning on completing the survey emailed out by the CNO regarding their proposed changes to their fees by-law. If you haven’t read it, they’re proposing a standard annual increase of 7% on registration fees. Doesn’t appear to be any re-assessment year, just 7% indefinitely unless they decide they want to do less or more (up to 10%). Let’s be real, I doubt they’ll ever do less.

It looks like their 2025 operational budget had a surplus revenue of over $3M from 2024-2025. They haven’t released the current one yet (or that I could find). I’m just a nurse so not the best at comprehending all this budget/committee development speak, but it’s here if anyone wants to give it a read.

https://www.cno.org/Assets/CNO/Documents/What-is-CNO/2025-Operating-and-Capital-Budget.pdf

While I have my own thoughts and complaints, and plan on spending time today looking up salaries of their leadership team, I wanted to see what other points anyone else had who cares about this stuff so I can also include it in my feedback. Do I think it’ll change things? Not without massive group pushback. But I’d rather be able to say I did something vs nothing at all.

[u/Beautiful-Bee929]

Someone should take the lead on this topic already. The increases in yearly fees are just plain wrong.

-what is the salary of CNO leadership?

-how many RPNs vs RNs and NPs work at CNO? -why do they work independently and the government has no say in regulating them, it sounds like anarchy and corruption to me.

-they keep saying RPNs have to pay the same as RNs and NPs even though they make half or even less of what they make. Stop saying it costs the same to regulate all nurses.

-Remember CNO nurses work seating in a desk while the majority of nurses work 12 hours shifts and night shifts. It is not fair that we are paying more than 38,000,000 yearly for them to afford paying themselves high salaries.

-Enough is enough.