Conscious_Card6261 t1_j3jqfyb wrote on January 9, 2023 at 1:16 AM

Reply to comment by Bleach-Bones_Jones in Talks continue as approximately 9,000 nurses threaten to strike at 4 NYC hospitals by DrogDrill

I am strictly talking about the right to strike. Do you think that the right to strike out ways the consequences that would come because of it? Are you willing to accept the deaths of people while nurses are out protesting?

Omphalos- t1_j3jvweo wrote on January 9, 2023 at 1:54 AM

I feel like the point you are missing, is that it is the suits willing to let people die because they won't pay for more nurses.

Bleach-Bones_Jones t1_j3nuk72 wrote on January 9, 2023 at 9:24 PM

You're missing the point I'm making here.

The nurses are making a starving wage. The nurses do not want to strike. They want to be able to feed their family and pay their rent. Correct? The CEO'S of the hospitals can decide to pay their nurses enough and this will be avoided. They HAVE the money to pay these nurses but they don't want to. THEYRE the ones that are killing people. Full stop. Even before the strike they would schedule the shifts so badly that patients were suffering that there weren't enough nurses. This has been happening for years through the pandemic, the strike that's happening right now is because the nurses are exhausted from holding up the weight of the healthcare system. The strike is happening because of the injustice that these nurses are being forced to work insane overtime and at horrible wages. If you were in the hospital for a heart attack would you want to be treated by a staff that hasn't slept in 3 days? Seriously, answer that question. These nurses aren't sleeping. And now these nurses who are literally giving up their entire life and going hungry are being harassed and bullied by people online who share your viewpoint. ITS THE CEOS FAULT FOR NOT STAFFING ENOUGH AND NOT PAYING THEIR WORKERS A LIVING WAGE. FULL STOP. YOU ARE POINTING THE FINGER AT THE WRONG PEOPLE.

Edited to add: striking is the nurses only bargaining chip. Otherwise the ceo's will keep cutting staff, increasing hours, and as the price of living increases, the wages will not increase. The ceo's have fucked the healcare system over greed and it's at the breaking point. Striking is the only option these nurses have.