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Member Responds to Brockton's Easter Weekend Example of Staffing
and Mandatory Overtime Problems
I applaud your stand on the issue of mandatory overtime. The time
has come for nurses to stand firm on this issue and support each
other. Staffing is a critical problem in all hospitals today and
it's time to say ENOUGH.
It really irks me when management is making these demands. What
do they have to loose? Certainly not a license and a means to support
a family. Med errors don't effect them, just the patient and you.
Management doesn't risk being stuck with an infected needle as
you do when you are trying to over pace yourself. Nope, Management
site in their Ivory Towers, doing eight hours a day, no week-ends,
no holidays, no off shifts, no overtime and see nothing wrong with
what is happening. The mounds of paper work that take away from
patient care. I think they have forgotten it is the revenue from
patients that pays their salaries.
Easter week-end at your hospital sounds like a horror story. Management
left Friday with holes in the schedule and not a care in the world
of how they would be filled. Shame on them.
Your administrator has no respect for you. In the newspaper he
says he believes it was a sick out. He has no idea of how nurses
drag themselves into work because they know what it is like to
work short staffed. He has no idea of how dedicated nurses are.
Yet he held his hand out for a very large bonus and perks with
no problem.
I have been where you are now and the decision to strike is not
an easy one. It is sometimes the only way to be heard. You will
find plenty of work through agencies, so don't let income deter
you. We had no one who was unable to find work when we were out.
The scabs who will be replacing you will be making up to $5000
a week. I bet the hospital has strike insurance to cover this.
Remember that nurses from all over will be supporting you in your
cause. The cause is to provide safe care for all patients , the
same you would want for yourself and your family members.
I will also assure you Carney Hospital will have nurses walking
the line with you in support.
Sincerely,
P.Donovan
Tri- Chair, Carney Hospital
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