Registered nurses from California to Maine will hold strikes, picketing, and other actions Wednesday, November 12 in 16 U.S. states and the District of Columbia--with possible support actions globally--as National Nurses United, the largest U.S. organization of nurses steps up the demand for tougher Ebola safety precautions in the nation’s hospitals.
One centerpiece of the actions will be a two-day strike by 18,000 RNs and nurse practitioners at 86 Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics who have been protesting the erosion of patient care standards in Kaiser facilities for months, and see Kaiser’s failure to adopt the optimal safeguards for Ebola as symbolic of its overall dismissal of nurses’ concerns about patient care.
Strikes will also affect 400 RNs at Providence Hospital in Washington D.C. on Wednesday and some 600 RNs Tuesday and Wednesday at two other Northern California hospitals, Sutter Tracy and Watsonville General Hospital.
Among other prominent national actions will be a vigil outside the White House Wednesday, rallies at state capitols in Michigan and Minnesota, several actions in Chicago, and a rally at the federal building in New York City.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Wednesday November 12 2014, @10:57PM
I just spoke with my white blood cells and they promise to keep the noise down. I don't really trust them though. I think they're being paid off.
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(Score: 1) by bornagainpenguin on Wednesday November 12 2014, @11:09PM
I work in an agency that processes faxes from Nurses to adjudicate insurance claims and I wouldn't have known this was going on unless Soylent News had told me. The work load was about the same as usual for a Wednesday.
(Score: 1) by Ryan on Wednesday November 12 2014, @11:31PM
For reference, the states are:
Georgia
Illinois
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nevada
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Tennessee
Texas
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @12:14AM
I only hope our Law Enforcement people, whose salary is paid for by the working ( taxed ) people will also come to our aid and refuse to take our homes for the benefit of the rich in the next economic collapse - which appears inevitable as banks flood the system with dollars printed into existence, yet represent a banker's claim to real goods.
Making matters worse, banks get usury on that which they never owned in the first place, but only had to "work with" our Congress for the charter to issue funds without having any.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:33AM
As a Kaiser member for the last 24 years, I had to laugh at the idea that the nurses have complained for "months" about the low patient-care quality — they've (rightly) been upset about it for decades, tracing back to the era when Kaiser was well-known for its high rate of mistakes that ended in patients being seriously harmed (like losing limbs) or dying.
Anyway, I got this from Kaiser the other day:
(Score: 1) by GoodBuddy on Friday November 14 2014, @02:06AM
Don't Get Sick in US at a Kaiser Permanente hospital in US November 12 - Nurses on Strike
I work at a hospital and there has been no talk of a strike.