From hospice centers to emergency rooms, first -line health workers throughout the country have been surprising this month to protest those that are unsafe care conditions and bad negotiation behavior.
Below are six examples of trade union activity in a strike, all of which happened in July.
Asaint Agnes Assembly Hospital (Baltimore, Maryland)
The nurses of the Asaint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore are planning a one -day strike on July 24. They are frustrated by the tensions that light with respect to personnel levels, patient safety and high rotation.
This marks the first time that hospital nurses have been on strike in Baltimore.
“We are amazing because patients cannot obtain the best care due to hospital management personnel decisions that have led to a personnel crisis,” said Melissa Larue, a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit of Asaint Agnes, in a statement. “Duration contract negotiations, we have submitted many proposals to address our concerns on patient safety and safe staff. We want ascension to reach the negotiation table so that we can reach an agreement that puts the first certifications.”
Essentia Health (Northeast of Minnesota and Wisconsin)
Clinical workers in outpatient facilities owned by Esuntia Health finished a 13 -day strike on Tuesday. The strike involved more than 300 clinical nurses and 400 advanced practice suppliers.
These workers get used to the strike to protest Esuntia’s failure in negotiating the first supplies in good faith, and alleged an illegal interference with the union organization. The strike ended after employees reached an agreement with Essential to resume collective bargaining in improved terms.
“For too long, outpatient attention has been treated as a late occurrence,” said Dana Bukovich, a nurse from the Essential Superior Clinic, in a statement. “We have made it clear that patients in clinics deserve the same safe standards as patients in hospitals, and gain the stop until they get them.”
New Orleans University Medical Center
A group of around 600 nurses at the New Orleans University Medical Center, owned by LCMC Health, was in a two -day strike last week. The strikes are the hospital room in less than a year.
The nurses claim that the hospital has been disciplining and dismissing experienced nurses who are prominent trade union organizers, as reprisals for their union defense.
“Signaling pro-unions shows that LCMC is using discipline to retaliate against us,” said Dana Judkins, a nurse in the Hospital Trauma Intensive Care Unit, in a statement. “We are surprised to let them know that we will not tolerate the compensation for the legislation for our eLELVES and our patients.”
Health Partners Clinic (Stillwater, Minnesota)
Around 80 clinical workers in Healthpartners Clinic Stillwater made an unfair four -day work strike that began on July 8. These workers included licensed practical nurses, certified medical assistants and other members of the service unit staff.
The group said that the main reason for the strike was the hospital’s refusal to sacrifice significant salary increases.
“The salaries that the employer is offering us are, frankly, insulting. Even for our best paid members, they are talking about increases that are less than 70 cents per year in their most recent pass. We refuse to accept that this is the best that the Healthartners have to offer us. This vote solidifies that we have our backs and that we keep together and demand.
McLaren Macomb Hospital (Mount Clemens, Michigan)
A group of employees at the McLaren Macomb hospital made a three -day strike that began on July 7. The group includes around 500 nurses, as well as 200 members of the clinical support personnel.
The workers cited the chronic levels of insecure personnel and the low wages as their reasons for the strike, along with the accusations that management was negotiating in bad faith.
Hospicio de Petaluma (Petaluma, California) and Memorial Hospice (Santa Rosa, California)
Clinical workers in Hospice of Petaluma and Memorial Hospice, both owned by Providence, were in a two -day strike that began 2. The group included more than 100 main nurses, home health attendees, chaplains and social workers.
The main concerns of the workers focused on the preservation of the limits of positions in cases of patients and care standards in the middle of the jointly planned providence company with the Compassus of private capital, that hospice workers fear that hospice workers can reduce the quality of care at the end of life.
“Providence is visic to save money at the expense of patient care and we are concerned that our services will be excellent as a new private capital operator, unless we can consecrate the protections in our union contract,” Tim Johnson, a social world.