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Sep 28, 2008 02:10 AM

Nurses crossing picket lines


I was talking some nurses today, a friend of mine and two of her nurse friends, one of whom I had never met. She was telling me about when she worked 9 nights straight during a strike somewhere, and she made over $11,000. She is currently working on getting her Calif license because there is going to be a strike somewhere there soon.

She said that previous strike lasted 3 or 4 months, and if she had stayed the whole time she would have made 2 years worth of salary. She told me that they put you up in a hotel and they bus you in to the hospital, so you don't actually see the strikers.

Interesting huh? What do you think?

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from aknottedyarn
Old Sep 28, 2008, 02:41 AM

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Never was in favor of scabs.
I do appreciate that sick people need care. Let the facility deal with the issues: nurses getting fair pay for a fair day's work. This includes workload and working conditions. These will not improve with the use of scabs.
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from ShayRN
Old Sep 28, 2008, 02:58 AM

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I would never work for a hospital whose nurses are on strike. It just amazes me that these hospitals can afford to pay 11,000 for someone to cross picket lines but can't afford to give their staff a raise or decent health insurance. Nope, not me. I wouldn't cross for twice that amount.
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from rokidog
Old Sep 28, 2008, 03:47 AM

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I also would never work in place of striking nurses. I think we should all stick together- nurses who stay united would improve all of our profession.

Tammy
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from Tweety
Old Sep 28, 2008, 04:52 AM

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Moving to the Union Discussion forum. This topic has been done many times here at all nurses with those who favor making the most money possible without regard to the striking nurses and those who call them scabs and everything in between.

Enjoy.
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from FireStarterRN
Old Sep 28, 2008, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Tweety View Post
Moving to the Union Discussion forum. This topic has been done many times here at all nurses with those who favor making the most money possible without regard to the striking nurses and those who call them scabs and everything in between.

Enjoy.
Heh, heh, it's sounds like it has a potential to be volitile.

As far as the nurses I was with, they seemed to think that paying the high wages was the punishment the hospital has to pay for not coming to an agreement with the nurses. They figured that someone needs to take care of the patients, so it may as well be my friend's friend.
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from Tweety
Old Sep 28, 2008, 11:57 AM

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It definitely has gotten volitile in the past for sure with name calling, etc. Hopefully people will stay respectful.

There is that delimema of the fact there are patients to take care of. If it were a hospital I was working at I would definitely support my coworkers and not cross. Although unions consider me management and won't let me join so I might be put in the bad position of being told to work or loose my job since I can't join a union.

On the other hand I can't blame a travel nurse or agency nurse for making the big bucks busting a strike.
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Old Sep 28, 2008, 12:25 PM

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I wonder what the outcome of that strike was that she was referring to? I would think that drawing it out for 3 months, with the hospital paying through the nose for temporary help, would have definitely made the hospital think twice about their position.

Maybe someone involved in unions and negotiations could give us some perspective.
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from smoke over fire
Old Oct 02, 2008, 12:42 AM

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Strikes are quickly becoming old news. Nurses are getting smarter and using other tactics instead of strikes to work for them. Once we had dock workers ready to cancel their contract with our hospitals' health plans if we didn't get our problems worked out (in solidarity). We also had a recent thing where staff stopped participating in meetings and such that was required by joint commission & DHS. No loss to patients, but a real big thorn in management's hide. The fines they faced would have been staggering.
So again Nurses are changing the labor movement. I hope one day we can all work together instead of having to sneak in to a hospital to work.
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from Iam46yearsold
Old Oct 04, 2008, 11:08 PM

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Remember Scabs heal a injury

I have the greatest respect for nurses brave enough to cross picket lines. I never have. But I have never been in a position to do so.
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