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Don't Get Sick in US November 12 - Nurses on Strike

posted by n1 on Wednesday November 12 2014, @08:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the safety-first dept.

gewg_ writes with an article from Common Dreams:

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.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by bornagainpenguin on Wednesday November 12 2014, @11:09PM

    by bornagainpenguin (3538) on Wednesday November 12 2014, @11:09PM (#115360)

    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.