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Please provide the source for the misinformation (otherwise known as "actual facts") that you spew, such as "most nurses pay nothing for health insurance" and especially, "27 percent was the average increase in the last contract". Additionally, oth...

Slave To Cats - Thank you for your support and for putting this so eloquently. I couldn't have responded to that better myself.

Thank you for the compliment. Many of us have applied for unemployment and some have already received checks.:)

THANK YOU!!!!!:1luvu: :1luvu:

Mrs. Mitty - Please read my prior post for my positition on the union breaking attempts of the hospital. As for the covered emergency care at other facilities, that is life-threatening only. Would you like to drive a 10 year old with a broken arm ...

Yes. The plan is a co-op of self-insured hospitals. While I don't know if they hired union avoidance consultants, I would imagine they did. The hospital's number one goal all along has been to break the union rather than negotiate fairly.

Absolutely. Not only that, if you mean "new nurses" as in "new grads", If I wanted to protect my shiny new license, I would not set foot in there to be oriented by scabs!

Zashagalka - Please note through other postings that there are other nurses out there that DO feel we are fighting their fight, too. We are hard-working, educated PROFESSIONALS and we are not "lucky" to get whatever multimillionaire administrators w...

Zashagalka Perhaps you are not educated as to the reason of our strike. Our strike is first and foremost a strike for Unfair Labor Practice. Instead of negotiating in good faith from the beginning, our administration chose to roll the dice on unio...

To my fellow RWJ nurses::wink2: We are almost there! Please, PLEASE don't give up now. They are starting to crumble. The ED is on complete bypass! They cannot take or handle any patients! They are now begging nurses to cross the picket line! WHY WOU...