High turnover, understaffing, low pay: U.S. nurses fight to unionize
The American healthcare system is plagued by the most expensive costs in the world, as millions of citizens suffer from medical debt and 13.7% of adults have no insurance. In the midst of these issues, nurses across the US are fighting to unionize as a way to take on the for-profit healthcare system that they see as failing to help patients.
“It’s been really disappointing how management has responded to our organizing efforts,” said Boeson. She filed an unfair labor practice charge against the hospital in July 2019, alleging the hospital changed her job duties as a nurse anesthetist in response to her union activity. “Management took me off this area because they wanted to make sure I wasn’t in different areas of the hospital to speak with different nurses.
Story continues“We take a vow to provide the best care we can and that has a lot to do with why there are so many nurses trying to organize,” said Liz Martinez, a nurse at Beaumont hospital involved in the union organizing drive. “There were issues on units where people would talk about unionizing and their managers or administrators would tell them they couldn’t talk about it and that there would be punishment if they continued to talk about it,” said Josh Pickett, a nurse at Johns Hopkins for over three years.
“They do not suggest or imply that the hospital has acted improperly, and the Settlement Agreement specifically states that there is no admission of liability,” a spokesperson for Johns Hopkins said. In July , around 650 nurses at Kalispell Regional Medical Center in Montana voted to form a union after management refused to outright recognize the union.
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