[NRSKarenRN]

Pennsylvania hospital emptied by 3-day nurses strike
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Oct. 5, 2004

A three-day strike by registered nurses at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital in Kittanning, Pa., has forced the medical facility to stop new admissions, discharge or transfer 106 patients to other community hospitals and temporarily lay off 117 employees. The nurses are protesting a contract dispute over healthcare insurance, pensions and wages.


Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Oct. 5, 2004

[moetrn1]

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS!!! Good luck We all hope you guys get what we all deserve... better wages,benefits,pension and most of all RESPECT!!

Originally Posted by NRSKarenRN

Pennsylvania hospital emptied by 3-day nurses strike
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Oct. 5, 2004

A three-day strike by registered nurses at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital in Kittanning, Pa., has forced the medical facility to stop new admissions, discharge or transfer 106 patients to other community hospitals and temporarily lay off 117 employees. The nurses are protesting a contract dispute over healthcare insurance, pensions and wages.


Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Oct. 5, 2004

[marymary]

Originally Posted by moetrn1

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS!!! Good luck We all hope you guys get what we all deserve... better wages,benefits,pension and most of all RESPECT!!

I wonder if you would feel that way if it was your relative that died....

[gerry79]

Marymary, I do respect your point of view, but where do you draw the line? Are nurses to be held hostage by the notion that people will die if they demand better wages, benefits and treatment? Is corperate America not responsible for the health and well being of patients in their healthcare facilities? Is minimum staffing, and a bottom line mentality a cross that nurses must shoulder. It seem as if other professionals can exercise their right to fight for better pay and benefits, and nurses must tow the line, and except what is given to them and be eternily grateful. Some say that nursing is a calling, and I will not dispute that. But nurses are also human beings with feelings, families to provide for, bills to pay, and retirements to plan. Listining to some people, one would think that being a nurse automatically relegates a person to being an automatonic drone.

[DNRme]

Originally Posted by gerry79

Marymary, I do respect your point of view, but where do you draw the line? Are nurses to be held hostage by the notion that people will die if they demand better wages, benefits and treatment? Is corperate America not responsible for the health and well being of patients in their healthcare facilities? Is minimum staffing, and a bottom line mentality a cross that nurses must shoulder. It seem as if other professionals can exercise their right to fight for better pay and benefits, and nurses must tow the line, and except what is given to them and be eternily grateful. Some say that nursing is a calling, and I will not dispute that. But nurses are also human beings with feelings, families to provide for, bills to pay, and retirements to plan. Listining to some people, one would think that being a nurse automatically relegates a person to being an automatonic drone.

well said

[Hellllllo Nurse]

Originally Posted by gerry79

Marymary, I do respect your point of view, but where do you draw the line? Are nurses to be held hostage by the notion that people will die if they demand better wages, benefits and treatment? Is corperate America not responsible for the health and well being of patients in their healthcare facilities? Is minimum staffing, and a bottom line mentality a cross that nurses must shoulder. It seem as if other professionals can exercise their right to fight for better pay and benefits, and nurses must tow the line, and except what is given to them and be eternily grateful. Some say that nursing is a calling, and I will not dispute that. But nurses are also human beings with feelings, families to provide for, bills to pay, and retirements to plan. Listining to some people, one would think that being a nurse automatically relegates a person to being an automatonic drone.

Exactlty. No one is going to die because nurses go on strike. The pts were all transferred to other hospitals. There are plenty of agency nurses looking for work. It is ignorant to think that nurses striking will cause pt deaths. Corporate health"care" loves that kind of knee-jerk reaction thoughtless response.

[hal248]

We can not control the out come of peoples lives. It is the Hospitals job to try to prevent the deaths of their patients. If this means meeting the demands of their staff to avoid a job action then so be it there are also agencies that provide nurses at a HIGH cost to the hospital to work while the strike is going on.

Originally Posted by marymary

I wonder if you would feel that way if it was your relative that died....