#nursing strike

[mortalfaerie]

the nursing cast of the pitt are currently picketing alongside the striking nurses in the us and i just want to say that is how you do meaningful allyship with healthcare workers!!

[andhumanslovedstories]

This sounds like a shitty question but I promise it's in good faith: How does a healthcare strike work? Like what happens to the patients? When this strike was first kicking off I remember a lot of people saying doctors/nurses/healthcare CANT strike because it's too necessary, which is obviously nonsense, but like... what actually is in place to stop people from getting hurt during the strike?

Massive props btw, striking esp for something so important is brave and hard and I'm in such support of you guys. Hopefully it ends soon and inspires more healthcare workers across the nation to do the same bc the awful treatment has gone on FAR too long.

This is an incredibly fair question! And I appreciate you asking it. It works the way all strikes do: people don't do the work. The consequences of workers refusing to work is the point. And it sucks! We're fully aware of how much this acutely affects patients. A healthcare strike is an argument that whatever short-term harm might be done as a result of work stoppage is less harmful than the long-term harm of current conditions. Other hospitals and facilities can help with patients who would normally come to a striking Providence facility, but obviously there's only so much that they can absorb. Everywhere else is busy as well.

In the case of our strike specifically in Oregon (I can't speak to healthcare unions anywhere else), we gave a mandatory ten-day notice of intention to strike. Ideally, negotiating happens hard during that period. In practice, Providence said they were too busy coordinating replacement care to meet with the union during that time. Providence puts out travel contract nurses and hires scabs to keep hospitals running. In addition, the jobs that aren't unionized are still working. Nursing management works the floor as well.

Through travel contracts and having to turn away patients due to lack of staffing, the Providence system is bleeding money. The hope is that this and public pressure works to bring them to the negotiating table.

[onlytiktoks]

[theunstuffedpepper]

Has anyone dealt with a nursing strike? What did you do and how did it go? So bummed about this. 🫠

[sylphskies]

why the fuck are more people talking about this documentary than there are about the largest nursing strike in uk history

[intrainingdoc]

Nurses Are Leading the Strikes — Where Are the Physicians?

Nurses in New York City are pushing back against hospital systems that put profits over patients and threaten their efforts to strike for safer staffing ratios. While nurses are fighting, physicians have thus far remained on the sidelines of this struggle.

"Physicians are key actors in the medical industrial complex today. They serve as conduits for profit extraction from sick and injured people."

Resident physician Michael Pappas, MD writes about how physicians must organize with their nursing colleagues to strive for better patient care, published on in-House, the online peer-reviewed publication for residents & fellows.

https://in-housestaff.org/nurses-are-leading-the-strikes-where-are-the-physicians-1455

[jammylittlefingers]

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I just spent 30 minutes trying to breastfeed this child, all over the house, in all different positions and light levels. I even closed us in the pitch black bathroom, the darkest room we have, even though I was waiting for Candyman to come shank me, and nothing. I know that she is hungry. I know for a fucking fact that she is hungry and I couldn't get a single fucking latch. I fucking hate hand expressing, my boobs hurt again. This is bullshit. I thought when yesterday was good it was over. I cry every stupid day over this and I wish I'd never even started. Why won't you just fucking eat?!?!?!?

[jammylittlefingers]

💀 I am cuddling this useless and infuriating piece of fluff and trying to bolster all my kind loving mothering feelings. This nursing strike, or whatever it is, is sapping my already meager will to live. Also my fondness for this baby. Who in addition to being an evil boob refusing gremlin, has become a yelling writhing tornado of living room destruction. So done. I stg I wake up and start the day as this loving mother goddess bestowing endless kisses and attention, and then it just goes slowly down hill all day from there until I feel run into the ground, out of patience, love, caring, and totally touched out. Thank god for excersaucers. And partners coming home. I literally do not know what I'd do if I was on my own 24/7. I made him come home early today and then I ran away and sat in the building stairwell. I would have gone further but it was raining and I forgot my sweater. I just snuck in a 5 minute feed on one side in her sleep. By prying her lips apart and shoving my boob in and then stroking her face like a newborn. Miraculous. 🙄Standards so low they don't even exist. I baked a cake today too, that I've been wanting for a week, and it turned out awful. I'll probably throw it out tomorrow. Wish I could throw everything else out too. I turned some of my nursing strike rage into deep cleaning today. Maybe tomorrow I should turn it into just throwing everything out.