California Sympathy Strike

Nurses Union

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

so how did the sympathy strike go? inquiring minds want to know!

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Specializes in ER.

what is this...??? Haven't heard...

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It went great!!!!! I participated and it was fabulous!!! There were several hundred people at almost every location yesterday!!!

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Specializes in ICU.

I tried to read about it, but the post disappeared quickly. I can say, tho, I was shocked and dismayed over all the nasty comments about nurses that I read. Apparently, there are a lot of people in the general population that think nurses are overpaid and have great benefits, and that we shouldn't complain! Blew me away.

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Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

The post is still in view.

Sympathy Strike....Would you do it?

We have been working on the site, so some threads are hiding.

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Specializes in ICU.

I meant it disappeared off yahoo news.

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Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

Oh....OK. My mistake.

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I can say, tho, I was shocked and dismayed over all the nasty comments about nurses that I read. Apparently, there are a lot of people in the general population that think nurses are overpaid and have great benefits, and that we shouldn't complain! Blew me away.

I would not have been surprised at all, given the current "anti-union" attitudes in politics lately. Teachers, firefighters and now nurses are being criticizised by those who think "we" get too much. If you don't believe it, google Wisconsin/Ohio state union laws.

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Specializes in none.
It went great!!!!! I participated and it was fabulous!!! There were several hundred people at almost every location yesterday!!!

Right On! All Power to the People!:yeah:

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That is the sentiment toward unions in general lately. My husband works in aircraft in the middle of the country and anytime contract negotiations come up and a union considers a strike there is tons of nasty backlash. What the people usually don't recognize is how dangerous their jobs are and how hazardous to their health it is. So I don't think it is directed at any one industry.

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That is the sentiment toward unions in general lately. My husband works in aircraft in the middle of the country and anytime contract negotiations come up and a union considers a strike there is tons of nasty backlash. What the people usually don't recognize is how dangerous their jobs are and how hazardous to their health it is. So I don't think it is directed at any one industry.

What I meant was all "All Power to Nurses" The phase comes from the Sixties when US Government wouldn't listen to us Veterans and the Non-Veterans about a war in South East Asia.

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Well, I took my first hospital job ever in August and within a month joined the ANA. If we don't advocate for ourselves no one will.

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