Nurses At Temple University Hospital In Pennsylvania To Hit Picket Lines

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/13218

Submitted by Doug Cunningham on March 30, 2010 - 6:08pm
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By Doug Cunningham

Nurses and other health care workers at Temple University Hospital will be on the picket lines Wednesday morning. They rejected the latest contract offer. Health care benefits and pay increases are among the issues. Temple University Hospital has hired hundreds of replacement nurses and other workers to work during the strike – reportedly often at pay that’s higher than what the current health care workers are earning. The Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals represents a thousand RN’s and 500 staffers at Temple University Hospital.

[T Wolf]

1. Not exactly true. Wages & benefits are not the major issues. A gag order to prevent nurses

from exposing institutional "offenses" that endanger patients is the real sticking point.

Management wants to prevent these health care workers from "whistle-blowing" on fuck-ups. Nurses want to be able to report wrong-doing they witness.