Posted on 09/20/2011 2:31:13 PM PDT by SmithL
Thousands of nurses at more than 30 Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Northern California will walk off the job Thursday in what union officials say will be the nation's largest-ever nurses' strike.
More than 23,000 nurses represented by the powerful California Nurses Association – including 17,000 from Kaiser hospitals – are expected to honor the walkout, primarily in the Bay Area but also at Kaiser's Sacramento-area hospitals.
Kaiser officials said they are prepared "to provide high-quality health care and service" during the strike.
The massive one-day strike, engineered by the CNA –
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contract with temp health care workers for 5 day minimums and let the strikers sit out four extra days.
Wow....we could have more than 23,000 job openings created by The Messiah, and then they can hire 23,000 Spanish-speaking locals to fill them.....what a concept!
contract with temp health care workers
LOL! they make more demands than any Nurse that is working now. My wife is a Nurse 29+ years now and temp health workers all they want to do is work when they want, hours they want, patients they want, shifts they want. more trouble than what their worth. The care will suffer if they walk.
Fire.
Them.
Now.
that’s an independent perspective.
Fire them ALL!
Wait till unionized docs do this. More docs are becoming hospital employees and are ripe targets for unions. This is the bitter fruit of health care consolidation accelerated by o-care.
Docs will never unionize. Ever try to get two docs to agree on anything?
Seriously though I don’t see how these nurses can keep their licenses. Patient abandonment is almost a sure loss of license when brought in front of a nursing or medical board. Another reason I don’t like unions.
Exactly...maybe physicians should unionize and really put the system at a standstill.
Try looking up the ‘Union of American Physicians and Dentists’. They have made great strides with public employed Docs at least here in Calif. They are starting to make inroads into the private sector. Obamacare will increase that pace......
If we continue on this downward spiral, unionized docs will be an unfortunate consequence. We must get rid of obamacare and obama to avoid this outcome.
These CNA nurses have a no-strike contract. As far as I am concerned, by calling this sympathy walkout and threatening the nurses with fines if they do not violate their contract, CNA executives are guilty of fraud, criminal mischief, and reckless endangerment of innocent lives.
I would like to add that, if somebody dies because of this action, these CNA executives should be charged with second degree murder.
I have no problem with workers organizing (I didn’t think anyone here on FR would); at the same time they should be aware that they’re just guaranteeing another unflux of imported “nurses” that nobody can understand will be brought in to replace them (as has happened to tech workers, accountants, and such).
I’m not a communist, but American workers of all stripes are getting screwed by our government/corporations (they’re one & the same); with the exception of civil servants (for whom I am an involuntary client to be squeezed to death), I wish all Americans could bargain for a better standard of living than we’re being told to accept.
People can say what they want about Canada, but our nurses are not allowed to strike.
That’s just stupid! That’s like leaving a nuclear station un-manned. (No one can make me say un-peopled.)
I'll take care of myself thank you. Bargaining is for incompetent whiners.
so many of them are fat, disgusting freaks that go out for smoke breaks just after they’ve told you that you need to live a healthier lifestyle.
That's not what I see at Kaiser Santa Clara or Santa Theresa. They're a quite reasonably fit bunch, despite an average of over 25 years of employment there. Most of the nurses don't want to walk out, and not a few will choose to ignore their leadership. What is not known is how many. Kaiser's preparations are going to be massive. They're not just simply taking this.
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