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A three-day strike? What the hells the point of that?
It's a fact of hospital labor that when workers go on strike, some patients will not receive adequate care. The people working in healthcare are super passionate about their patients and don't want them to suffer. Short term strikes are a way to perform intermittent striking without losing legal protections, while also meeting the needs of patients. If Kaiser can't find an agreement though, they will go on a much longer strike like in 2021
Correct. This is usually seen as a warning shot. If kaiser doesn't get their shit together then they actually strike.
Their employers care less about the patients than the employees and are ecstatic that their doctors won't let the patients die, because the employer absolutely would let the patients die if it came down to it. I don't know what the alternative is but if you tell them you're coming back, they're not even going to sweat.
the thing about intermittent strikes, is that they're super successful. This is because they are highly unpredictable. The disruptions caused by a short term, unpredictable strike means that scabs are exceedingly difficult to have on hand as a contingency. This in turn means that it's more disruptive to operations (and profits) than a long haul strike.
To give KP a taste of what would happen if KP doesn't agree to the Union's terms
Not every strike is a months-long "The company must agree to every demand or we're going to strike until we starve to death" event
Yes, not every strike is effective.
It can let the employer know that the employees are absolutely willing to strike while also not putting patients' lives at risk. Even short strikes can be a massive headache for the company.
Lmfao, never announce an end date without a deal. I hate to break it to them but the company they work for cares less about the patients than the staff do, there's no version of your strike where you can continue to offer life saving services and still pressure your employer. They're counting on you to not let the patients die, because they absolutely would let them die.
There absolutely is. There was a successful nursing strike in Worcester, MA that lasted 10 months and the hospital didn't shut down. It was staffed by a rotating cast of expensive travel nurses.
It's a controversial maneuver because it can prolong a strike, but it maintains public support and also prevents possibly endangering the lives of people in the community, which is the opposite of what we're trying to achieve in a healthcare strike.
(Personally, I am firmly of the belief that if any service is so critical to the public well-being that a compromised strike is necessary, then that service should be owned by the public and not a corporation. But that's a whole other conversation.)
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2023
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