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• • 05 Aug 06
  • 12:00 pm

  Nurses are in a particularly precarious and vulnerable position as far as negotiating the conditions of their worksite, since they do not feel comfortable abandoning the patients they have made a personal commitment to care for., so they do not strike. Unfortunately, they have been, thus far, unsuccessful in impressing on others that the very strenuous and unsafe work conditions that they fight against are in the public interest as well as their own. A public outcry against the conditions which contribute to less than ideal patient outcomes , with poor staff to patient ratios and forced overtime leading to medication …

  Posted to Nurses Fight to Retain Right to Unionize

• • 05 Aug 06
  • 5:26 pm

  I thought this might be interesting to some...and not even just nurses, thrashing about for some status marker ( sheesh!)... This is happening here, rather than some far flung nation, so it may be less poignant to those who look far afield for social injustice ( Can I make some stupid remark about "blue collar workers' here? The posters at this site treat this North American social /economic descriptor like they might "Pygmy Bushmen from the African Plains". Like 'Blue Collar' even means anything, anymore...we don't have factories in the North America these days do we? Just slaves in Asian lands, …

  Posted to Nurses Fight to Retain Right to Unionize

• • 13 Aug 06
  • 8:03 pm

  And PS In case you didn't know. We CAN'T strike without risking the licence that we've earned. If we walk off the job, they take away our nursing licence. Because we have abandoned you. That's a heady responsibility for us RN's....we among ALL the workers in any given hospital, are responsible for your health, and the outcome of your surgical procedure. Even the MD's are not threatened with this should they choose to drop you from their caseload. We have no voice in the configuration of that hospital, and cannot allocate resources as we best deem, but we are held accountable, …

  Posted to Nurses Fight to Retain Right to Unionize

• • 05 Aug 06
  • 12:48 pm

  Hey...I think they need bigger salaries simply because they're paying more for the gallon of gas it costs to drive across the Big Box parking lots.....

  Posted to Bigger Salaries for Big Box Workers?

• • 05 Aug 06
  • 12:54 pm

  I miss the days where Clinton got impeached for lying about his blow job under oath.... those were the innocent, and carefree years, eh?

  Posted to Rechecking the Balance of Powers