What in the world is everyone being so quiet for? This is going to effect nursing one way or the other in the state. What r your ideas? Do u agree with the facility that the nurses are just hungry for more money or r there really more important issues here?
For what it's worth, to me it's a little of both. The staffing in the place is the pits.
The supplies are old fashioned. The supervisors are terrible, they want to push all of the responsibility on the shoulders of staff without taking any responsibilty to attempt to get some relief for the much put upon workers. Any comments?
I heard them say that for a long time, almost day one. BARH claimed that the initial reason for the strike was wages and federal law allows them to hire permanent replacement workers when it is about wages however the union is saying it is about unsafe staffing.
I have also heard they now voted to go back for 90 days. Hopefully this gets resolved.
I am not sure but I think the vote to return to work failed. There is also some sort of settlement the nurses were supposed to have been awarded by the government this past week. I think the nurses will be looking for new jobs and let this issue die.
I think the union had approved going back to work for 90 days under the 2004 contract. That settlement was going back to when they were making the nurses work 40 hours at the same salary as the 36 hours they had agreed to I think.
This has been a mess. I cannot imagine how these nurses are getting by, this happened near Christmas which is just horrible.
I'm with you, barefootlady,--i just haven't been to this site for awhile. Anyway, it is very hard to get people interested in their own welfare if it is more than 3 steps away. When they are hurting, they will want all the people in Western Kentucky to help them out.
Noryn
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I heard them say that for a long time, almost day one. BARH claimed that the initial reason for the strike was wages and federal law allows them to hire permanent replacement workers when it is about wages however the union is saying it is about unsafe staffing.
I have also heard they now voted to go back for 90 days. Hopefully this gets resolved.