157 House repubs, 1 independent just voted against health care worker safety

[rainbow4321]

How can ANYone oppose keeping frontline healthcare workers safe? All we want is a SAFE workplace...too much to ask for, according to the “nays”. Per OSHA, the majority of workplace violence happens in healthcare.

The bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1309

[dewsgirl]

1. Do you know who the Independent was? Just awful.

[rainbow4321]

4. I think it was Amash.

Going by this link that lists who agreed to a yay/nay call (if I’m reading it correctly) he is listed as voting no on the yay/nay. I’m assuming he didn’t want to be called out on voting against it?

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll632.xml

[dewsgirl]

5. Disappointing and true.

[LuvLoogie]

9. Justin Amash? Former Republican

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Just more proof that they don't really care about the average American worker. Fact is, you...

have to have at least a net worth of probably a million bucks for a republican to even look at you. Disgusting. Better workplace safety equals better working conditions equals better output. Simple.

[rainbow4321]

10. OSHA article w/ stats on how bad it is for healthcare workers

https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3826.pdf

Healthcare workers are at an increased risk for workplace violence. From 2002 to 2013, incidents of serious workplace violence (those requiring days off for the injured worker to recuperate) were four times more common in healthcare than in private industry on average. In 2013, the broad “healthcare and social assistance” sector had 7.8 cases of serious workplace violence per 10,000 full-time employees (see graph below). Other large sectors such as construction, manufacturing, and retail all had fewer than two cases per 10,000 full-time employees.
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And the bill info (article is from this summer when it had just been introduced)

https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/nursing/bill-address-healthcare-workplace-violence-moves-forward?fbclid=IwAR3zrL1NZqdhMVTvC5X0QEayrBvHh1Y86KKBsTlqP4TyUhY5PQZsdqDdxNE

[SWBTATTReg]

11. Wow. Thanks for sharing. I didn't know it was that bad. And I have 3 nurses in my ...

family, but still didn't know it was that bad.

[rainbow4321]

12. Yeah, nurses can get convinced it's "just part of the job" by admins

So we just don’t bring it up to others/family.

I got stalked in the hallway by a patient who verbally abused and harassed female nurses (he refused to allow male nurses in his room and the hospital obliged). He stalked me in the hallway, came up to me, took my badge in his hand, wrote my name down on a paper. When I refused to be his nurse anymore the unit manager tried to shame me by saying “so you don’t care about OTHER nurses’ safety?” and “we ALL learned in school how to take care of patients with psych problems”. She wanted me to go be alone in a room with my stalker. I stood my ground and refused the whole 5 weeks he was there. It was not a psych facility..it was a med surg floor.

[smirkymonkey]

3. Why?

What is wrong with these people? It's sick.

[rainbow4321]

6. Probably get $ from hospital lobbyists

Hospitals execs don’t like attention brought to healthcare industry workplace violence. They prefer to victim blame.

[gratuitous]

7. Why?

Job creators. Government interference. Free market. Raises costs. I'm sure there are more bullshit excuses, but one of those four probably accounts for at least 150 of the votes against.

[Ohiogal]

8. Just unbelievable.

I have no words.