samurai_science said:

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malenurse said:

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I feel like I should chime in on this subject, but at this point in my life...

I just don't give a rat's a$$

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Your on the thread already.....

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Obligatory *you're*

AtticusMatlock said:

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Nurses strike all the time in places like New York and California. They have to pre-announce their strikes well in advance to allow the hospitals to contract with temporary agencies to fill the gaps. A whole lot of nurses from Texas, Florida, elsewhere in the US are about to be paid a ton of money to fill in while the spoiled brats hold their signs on the street.

They almost always market their strikes as being about patient safety but in reality it's about getting contracts to pay them more to do less work.

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If it's about safety they would not be abandoning their patients.

Did you even read what you quoted? The strikes are announced ahead of time and the hospital brings in backfill. Nobody is walking out abandoning pts.

To be fair, I had a friend work a strike contract out in California. They were put up in a hotel and bussed to the hospital. Every day the nurses on strike would beat on their bus and scream at them as they walked into the building. Apparently "scab" is supposed to be some sort of insult. She didn't care. She was making quadrouple the money she was making in Texas. The nurses on strike could give two craps whether the patients inside the hospital had nurses or not.

malenurse said:

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samurai_science said:

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malenurse said:

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I feel like I should chime in on this subject, but at this point in my life...

I just don't give a rat's a$$

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Your on the thread already.....

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Obligatory *you're*

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You took the time to post twice

You would be correct on one part, "scab" is an insult. I can't think anyone would be proud of being a scab.

If I'm making four times my usual salary, they can call me anything they want.

Besides, **** unions

Not many people decide when they are going to be sick and need hospitalization. You can't plan your cancer or heart attack. When nurses go on strike someone has to come in and take care of those people. In that situation I'd love the opportunity to be a "scab." Especially in some places in California where nurses will strike for insane reasons.

EFR said:

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You would be correct on one part, "scab" is an insult. I can't think anyone would be proud of being a scab.

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I would, but I realize unions just increase prices and corruption.

TexasAggie_97 said:

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AtticusMatlock said:

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Nurses strike all the time in places like New York and California. They have to pre-announce their strikes well in advance to allow the hospitals to contract with temporary agencies to fill the gaps. A whole lot of nurses from Texas, Florida, elsewhere in the US are about to be paid a ton of money to fill in while the spoiled brats hold their signs on the street.

They almost always market their strikes as being about patient safety but in reality it's about getting contracts to pay them more to do less work.

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If it's about safety they would not be abandoning their patients.

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Part of their demands are for better enforcement of minimum staffing ratios and more security screening measures for guns and other weapons. Short term passion for long term gain as far as safety is concerned.

ABATTBQ11 said:

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TexasAggie_97 said:

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AtticusMatlock said:

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Nurses strike all the time in places like New York and California. They have to pre-announce their strikes well in advance to allow the hospitals to contract with temporary agencies to fill the gaps. A whole lot of nurses from Texas, Florida, elsewhere in the US are about to be paid a ton of money to fill in while the spoiled brats hold their signs on the street.

They almost always market their strikes as being about patient safety but in reality it's about getting contracts to pay them more to do less work.

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If it's about safety they would not be abandoning their patients.

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Part of their demands are for better enforcement of minimum staffing ratios and more security screening measures for guns and other weapons. Short term passion for long term gain as far as safety is concerned.

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And apparently no termination when nurses arrive drunk or high to treat patients....

Hmmm... Yea its definitely about "patient" safety.


https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-hospital-accuses-nurses-union-seeking-protections-workers-arriving-drunk-high-strike-begins

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"NYSNA leadership's demand that a nurse not be terminated if found to be compromised by drugs or alcohol while on the job is another example of putting their own self-interest before patient safety," Montefiore Senior Vice President of Strategic Communications Joe Solmonese told Fox News Digital in a statement.

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According to the hospital's communications guy. I'd like to see the exact wording from the other side before taking him at face value

Esteban du Plantier said:

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If they were good comrades feeling the warm embrace of collectivism, they'd work without pay!

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Paychecks are way too much rugged individualism.

Are the petit nurses similarly planning to strike?

ABATTBQ11 said:

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According to the hospital's communications guy. I'd like to see the exact wording from the other side before taking him at face value

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It shouldn't surprise you if true. People tend to focus on the compensation demands by unions and never dive into the work rules demands. The latter of which can be much more detrimental to any compensation increase. These guys are the legal mob. They will do anything to keep someone from being fired regardless of the reason.

I worked in a union environment for 20 years so I've seen it firsthand. I've seen people fired at one location only to pop up at another location a few weeks later. You practically had to murder someone to stay fired at my old gig.