BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Negotiations aimed at averting a nurses strike at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor have broken down.
Current plans call for the 833 unionized nurses to hold a one-day strike on Nov. 22.
But the hospital administration says that if the strike takes place it will lock out the unionized nurses for two additional days, which would begin at 7 a.m. on Saturday and end at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
Hospital officials are planning to hire replacement nurses. They say patient care will not be affected.
The Bangor Daily News says that among the contentious issues separating nurses from the hospital are nurse staffing levels, health insurance costs and the practice of moving nurses from one specialty unit to another against their wishes.
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Information from: Bangor Daily News, http://www.bangornews.com
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Why would a nurse ever go on
Why would a nurse ever go on strike against an employer? No good reason. Just huge responsibility, little decision making authority, arbitrary demands and decisions by employers, being ignored when expressing concerns about patient care and staffing, reductions in take-home pay when their shares of health insurance costs go up as a result of insurance contracts entered into by the employer, etc., etc., etc. none of which should be of any concern to them anyway. WRONG!
In conflicts between bosses and employees, What other way is there for an employee to get his/her voice heard other than working with other employees and, if their common voice isn't heard, striking? Letter writing campaigns? Polite inquiries to supervisors? The bosses have LOTS of ways to get themselves heard. Don't believe me? Lets see what happens when you want something that your boss doesn't want to give, and you get insistent. Consider the bosses' poptions. Compare their options with yours.
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Before they go on strike they ought to think about all the people out of work looking for jobs including nurses and retired nurses who's retirements have been cut and have seen no increase in SS in 2 years and may want to go back to work.
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