Trying to Bust a Strike

Town & Country · Oct 28, 2004

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California Strike Pushed to December

Regarding other opportunities: We have received an update regarding our contract in the San Francisco Bay Area. This strike has been pushed back to December.

In November we will be returning to the location of our recent one day strike in California except it will be for a minimum of 5 days this time. All candidates who participated last week are given first opportunity to return however the client has indicated doubling the staffing requirements so we will have more openings this time around.

On a personal note I would like to thank each and every professional who came to the recent one day strike for the support, cooperation and outstanding service everyone provided in their job assignment. There was not a single complaint from the client, but rather very good comments regarding the quality of staff and the excellence in service provided by all.

I have never had the pleasure of presenting such an outstanding group of Healthcare Professionals to any other client in the past. Thank you!

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THEY DON'T NEED TO EMAIL ME

I'M NOT CROSSING A PICKET LINE!

THERE MUST BE A REASON FOR THE STRIKE

THEY CAN SHOVE IT! :angryfire

James Huffman · Oct 28, 2004

Are you saying you don't think the patients in this facility deserve skilled, professional care?

lee1 · Oct 28, 2004

Must be St. Barnabas that already had a good salary plan, at least last year. Don't remember about pension though.

Town & Country · Oct 29, 2004

Are you saying you don't think the patients in this facility deserve skilled, professional care?

Are YOU saying they weren't already receiving it?

erShocker · Oct 29, 2004

Not ife the RN's go on strike. I cant see how a patients are supposed to fend for them selves while the nurses go on strike, are they supposed to go to another facility? If so what makes them think they will come back again?

Are YOU saying they weren't already receiving it?

bam_bam · Oct 29, 2004

I think he meant that the patients deserve preofessional, skilled care while the nurses strike. Not that they didn't receive it before the strike.

James Huffman · Oct 29, 2004

Yes, I was -- and am -- saying that patients deserve skillled, professional care even in the midst of any strike. If nurses choose -- for whatever reason -- to not work, then the facility must find nurses who will care for the patients.

Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN · Oct 29, 2004

Are YOU saying they weren't already receiving it?

You go! Thumbs up!

Town & Country · Oct 29, 2004

I never said, or even insinuated, that patients don't deserve good care.

Get real.

the facility must find nurses who will care for the patients.

No, the facility needs to treat the nurses who are ALREADY THERE - IN PLACE, and working; like the professionals they are.

The FACILITY needs to act in good faith and get the bargaining done, so that the patients can be cared for; instead of trying to recruit outsiders to come in because they cannot come to terms with what I am sure are legitimate concerns of nurses: little things like nurse - patient ratios, for one thing. :angryfire

The facility needs to recognize that, as patients in their care, it is safer for the patients to use the nurses they already have.

It is in the patients' best interests, both physically and emotionally, for this hospital to avoid a strike, instead of employing an agency to start recruiting. :rolleyes:

CrunchRN, ADN, RN · Oct 29, 2004

This is why nurses get treated like you know what by the administration. They know that for every nurse who will stand up for what is right and fair, there will be plenty more who will accuse them of bieng selfish and "abandoning" the patient. I agree that all patients deserve good care, but maybe that is what those nurses are going to strike over. Maybe they aren't given adequate satffing for safe patient care. I do not mean to offend anyone, but we will always be treated as less than professionals because we act weak and don't offer full support because they can always clobber us with the "what about the patient" card even though it doesn't seem to apply to those that control the money and staffing ratio. Sorry - rant over. Good luck to those nurses who I am sure are going through a hellacious time even having to consider striking. I for one would never cross the line because these patients can be cared for elsewhere until the issue is resolved FAIRLY.

I never said, or even insinuated, that patients don't deserve good care.
Get real.
No, the facility needs to treat the nurses who are ALREADY THERE - IN PLACE, and working; like the professionals they are.
The FACILITY needs to act in good faith and get the bargaining done, so that the patients can be cared for; instead of trying to recruit outsiders to come in because they cannot come to terms with what I am sure are legitimate concerns of nurses: little things like nurse - patient ratios, for one thing. :angryfire
The facility needs to recognize that, as patients in their care, it is safer for the patients to use the nurses they already have.
It is in the patients' best interests, both physically and emotionally, for this hospital to avoid a strike, instead of employing an agency to start recruiting.

fergus51 · Oct 29, 2004

I am with you Sunstreak. I find it hard to believe a group of nurses would go on strike if the hospital were a good place to work. I don't need to stick my hand in a blender personally to know that I don't want to do it and I am not so hard up for money that I need to do something I believe to be unethical.