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Nurses at Garfield Medical Center in Monterey Park launched a 10-day strike on Friday, voicing concerns about short staffing, broken equipment and whether the hospital has adequate safeguards to ...
Nurses at Mission said they are preparing for a strike after negotiations with management failed to reach an agreement by the July 2 expiration of their three-year contract. Disagreements persist ...
Nurses walked off the job in June 2020 in an effort to force the hospital to increase staffing and improve safety as COVID-19 infections surged, the union said at the time. But hospital officials ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
In Papua New Guinea, 4,000 nurses are expected to strike over hazardous working conditions. [80] Doctors and nurses in public hospitals in Zimbabwe held a strike due to a lack of protective equipment. [81] Sanitation workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [82] and Medway, UK [83] went on strike over protective equipment.
On Thursday September 30, the collective bargaining agreement ran out. The next day, the strike began, with almost 2,000 workers, including nurses, walking off the job. [9] The workers released a statement that day saying that "our hospital, and the hospitals throughout the Catholic Health System, are dangerously understaffed.
The strike cost parent company RWJ Barnabas more than $120 million in replacement nursing costs. Unions have pushed for legislation that would set staffing ratios in New Jersey.
It can be measured, for instance, when the nurse-to-patient ratio, the nurse-to-population ratio, the number of job openings necessitates a higher number of nurses than currently available, or the current number of nurses is above a certain age where retirement becomes an option and plays a factor in staffing making the workforce in a higher ...