Has Anyone Worked A Strike?

Cruiser · Mar 14, 2003

:cool: It seems to me that we could work each other's strikes and come out ahead. I know nurses that have worked them and really liked the money. I mean, once the hospitals get a load of the $$$$ they have to pay out for scabs, they usually give the nurses what they need to stay in nursing. Most of the nurses I know that have been involved in a strike are at least as concerned with short staffing as with money, although that is very important...I mean, I personally don't do this just for the fun of it or because I'm a concerned person.

Let's face it...someone has to take care of sick people even if regular staff are sick and tired of being treated like slaves...so why not scab nurses...everbody wins...the strikers get what they want -eventually--, the scab nurses make lots of money, and the patients are cared for....that's the way I see it. I have never worked one, by the way, but it might be interesting...maybe some day....

cruiser

hogan4736, BSN, RN · Mar 15, 2003

cruiser, suit up for the flaming my friend...

I agree w/ you 100%, but if I was striking, well, I'm not sure...I signed up for a strikebuster agency once, but never worked...

giggly1977 · Mar 18, 2003

We didn't have a choice. The head of nursing school told us that we were safe. What were we supposed to do??? Transfer out and start all over again. Did you not understand what I said. The same contract that they were offered before the strike began was the exact same contract that they took after the strike. So, what was the point???? And to each his own. This is a free country. Being a single mother and knowing I have to work, Guess what, categorize me as a "SCAB" because if I didn't cross the picket, then I'd have to go work elsewhere. Oh and by the way, I'm in the union now and they don't do crap for our nurses. They're all about the management, the ones who aren't even in the union. Maybe if we had a union that backed us up, in our hospital now and the hospital that I went to school with, my opinion may be different. SO BE IT, SCAB I AM!!!!!

RN,RCIS,RTRCV · Mar 18, 2003

I work as an independent nurse specializing in interventional cardiovascular procedures. I let the managers that I work with know that I do not cross picket lines. It is a bad practice if I ever want to go back there again. I don't want to have anyone on the cardiac team upset. As an aside to this topic, I have considered contacting hospitals who have had reserve RNs deployed overseas. I want to help out anyone who needs the assistance (at a reduced rate, of course).

mash406rn · Mar 19, 2003

giggly 1977

Being a single mother is just an excuse. I am a single mother and I have been on strike 126 days and I am not the only one. Each one of us has a different financial hardship but we've all taken care of eachother, the community has taken care of us, our union has taken care of us; so I don't buy it.

If you don't feel your union does anything for you, maybe you should work to change that. A union is only as good as those elected to office choose to make it.