NOW RECRUITING FOR NEW JERSEY STRIKE October 8, 2004
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....... is now recruiting for a strike in .......on or about November 14, 2004.
This strike is for RN's only and all candidates must currently hold a ....... license as we will not have time to process new licenses. Our client is a major trauma center, level III NICU, kidney transplant center and also maintains a burn unit and Burn ICU. All areas of ICU, NICU and PICU are required, including clinics, dialysis, complete surgical services and just about any area of practice, ensuring a wide variety of opportunities for all.
We pay regular rates for all orientation hours the evening before the strike commences in addition to hours worked. In the event that you travel to the strike and it has been settled, .......pays $500 dollars show up pay for your time and willingness to support this project. Please visit our FAQ Page for answers to most questions. You may also call us at ........or send an email.
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California Strike Pushed to December
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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Why in the world would you HAVE to write an anti-strike paper?
My Advocacy teacher posted a list of things to write about and we had to pick one as a team and write pro and con. We chose Should Nurses Strike? I got the con side.
The most common issue nurses have with taking industrial action (not just withdrawal of labour) is duty of care - while many nuses who support industrial action argue that taking it is for the long-term good of future patients, those opposed argue that it endangers actual patients.
In my experience, these nurses recognise the long-term issues, but believe that the short-term costs to patient care are too high. There is no question that care is compromised - even with sufficient notice, and minimum staffing levels, patients don't get as good care when there are fewer nurses - if they did they'd be no need to have more of us!
It really boils down to whether you prioritise short- or long-term conditions.
While there are other reasons people have for opposing industrial action (including the idea that industrial action is not professional, or that negotiation is the better option) this is the most prevalent, most documented, and easiest to defend.
Your talking to me, Yes I am very highly driven by monetary desires, I fully admit to it.
The more money I earn the more golf I can afford. Very simple equation there.
LOL, Tom, you are a riot!!! Honest to boot.
When my kids were young, I was always VERY verbal about stating I would never work a strike, and how I wouldn't prostitute myself if the money was right, as those "scumbag scabs" who were sent in by U.S. Nursing, the big company who assigned strike nurses at the time, did. I wanted to set an EXAMPLE for my kids.
Now my kids are grown, and one is headed off to law school. She tells me--frequently--that I am foolish to pass up opportunities to make the big money involved in working a strike--often greater than $1,000 a day. Another OR nurse colleague has declared, "I would work NAKED for $1,000 a day."
So who's right? I don't know, and I still don't know if I could ever work a strike--although the money is VERY tempting, and Tom's honesty is refreshing.
You do not know these nurses and they are probably bad people any way if they are going on strike. They probably are just being greedy and do not realize that all nurses should be happy with whatever conditions management feels are appropriate. After all nursing is not about money it is about a calling. After all nurses are females any way. They should just find a man to take care of them. If you believe any of the previous statements to be false then you should not be a strikebreaker. If you think that everything I said was all true and correct then you should be a strikebreaker.
You do not know these nurses and they are probably bad people any way if they are going on strike. They probably are just being greedy and do not realize that all nurses should be happy with whatever conditions management feels are appropriate. After all nursing is not about money it is about a calling. After all nurses are females any way. They should just find a man to take care of them. If you believe any of the previous statements to be false then you should not be a strikebreaker. If you think that everything I said was all true and correct then you should be a strikebreaker.
You sound like a managed care management trainee! :rotfl:
I am a student and I have to write a paper against striking- I am actually pro union so I am having a hard time with the fiction. Can anyone help with some believable reasons against striking.
You notice the problem here perhaps. Maybe you should consider both points of view objectively.
Why can't you just admit that the only reason nurses work a strike is for the MONEY. This stuff about "caring for the patients" at a striking hospital is just your way of justification. Are you really such a good nurse that YOU have to be called in to care for the patients better than the nurses already working there? I have a right to my opinion because I have seen first hand how companies cause diversity among the workers. At least be honest: You work strikes FOR THE MONEY.
I crossed a picket line once but it was not for the money, although I did appreciate the "opportunity" the striking nurses gave me for a job. I had moved and the nurses just happened to walk out before I arrived. I made $35 an hour which was less per hour than I did at home. All the OT working 12 hr shifts 6 days a week was what made the paychecks big. So it was not really a "money" issue but an issue of are you willing to work 6 days a week? And yes, I cared very much for the patients. They were no different than other patients except for the fact that many suffered or were inconvienced by the strike. The thanks I personally got from patients, doctors, bus drivers, taxi drivers, flower delivery people, visitors certainly made the long hours much more pleasant. In my opinion there are few issues to consider:
1. Any company that has a union deserves it.
2. Hospitals have never been known for their management skills.
3. Are you sure hospitals make a lot of money?
4. Do nurses walk out because they, or their union, have no negotiating skills?
5. Is the warrior approach the best appproach?
6. Does the hospital benefit by a strike, ie, do they have strike insurance and do they learn a lot from the influx of nurses who have experience from many other hospitals all over the country?
7. When the nurses walk out, will the people who replace them find out that there was a lot of poor nursing care at the hospital which was not related to management issues?
8. Are there any "perfect" workplaces and how much money would you save if you could be happy no matter where you were at and instead invest your union dues for the next 20 years?
9. Remember the TV show "Branded?" Are health care professionals who cause harm to patients forever branded as...what?
10. Is it justified to harm a few to save many more? Would you sacrifice your kid so others could live?
11. Would you be able to run the hospital better than the team in there now?
12. If you had a company would you welcome union workers so they can tell you how they would like you to run your company?
13. How do "professional" nurses act on a picket line? I wish I had photos of nurses with faces contorted with rage, screaming and...well you get the picture.
I remember as a child my mother had to cross the picket line. It was a money issue. She just had started working at this one place a year before, and was not at the salary level where she could afford to strike. Now, who knows what she would do.
I myself would really have to weigh pros and cons on the issue to strike, or to continue to work. My family comes first. In this case, as my mother's years ago, I would have to know my family wouldn't suffer because of financial worries...there's no telling how long a strike would last. Next, would the patients suffer too badly? Moving the extremely ill vs. bringing other qualified nurses in...I think bringing temps in would be better on the patients.
Also, I would really have to take a good look at WHY the strike is needed. Is it a poorly managed hospital, or is the nursing staff just not working at its full potential? If all the nurses are at their wits end because of understaffing, not the right equipment, etc, then a strike would be warranted, and I'd probably strike with the rest of the bunch.
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My Advocacy teacher posted a list of things to write about and we had to pick one as a team and write pro and con. We chose Should Nurses Strike?