Okay, I'm a little scared. On Sept 18th, Health Care Aides, clerical support, and allied health care workers are hitting the picket line. Pebbles dear, you are also affected by this, what is your take on the issue? Anyone else?
This is gonna be a fricken nightmare. Healthcare aides are the MAJORITY of the workers on my unit. How the heck are we gonna cope. I'm also kind of suspicious of why a few months ago, when us nurses were threatening to strike, we had contingency planning up the wazooo-- but I haven't heard a thing from administration about how we are going to staff our unit. Things are at bare bones staffing-wise as it is. There are not a lot of agency nurses or care aides in our city. I'm also worried about our patients -- they don't deserve it.
Perhaps this also speaks of my general sense of detachment from reality and all those things related to "the big picture", but I have holidays coming up and I'm gonna be pizzed if they get cancelled.
