Sinai nor any other hospital across the US has any intention of meeting our main demand for safe staffing because it would hurt their bottom line. The trade unions, whether CRONA or NYSNA, have no solution to our problems because they are working within the framework of the for-profit medical system. They call us out on strike, but then they isolate us, ignore our democratic rights and work closely with the management to work out a “historic contract” that doesn’t even come close to addressing our demands. There is an enormous determination among nurses and healthcare workers to fight for better conditions, especially staffing. The entire healthcare system is at a breaking point.
We cannot be compassionate and observant advocates for our patients if we continue to be pushed to take more patients, to skip breaks, to take on evermore exhausting workloads. Nurses everywhere know that improved staffing is key to taking back our profession. Every day nurses call and text each other to convince nurses to come in early or pick up extra shifts when we’re short. In addition, as a result of the “tripledemic” surge, hallway beds have opened up on our units, and the emergency room is under enormous pressure to send patients to the units as quickly as possible, giving us little to no time to prepare. In early December a new and worse staffing grid was quietly released that called for fewer nurses on the floor. The clearest indication that the contract was a betrayal can be found in our current conditions. Our primary concern was safe staffing, and our contract offered nothing but vague pronouncements of a new staffing committee and a plan to begin to adjust staffing based on acuity.
#SNAP NURSE STRIKE FULL#
It wasn’t until we began to organize a rank-and-file committee to take matters into our own hands that the full TA was released. The rank-and-file nurses had to fight to even receive a copy of the full Tentative Agreement. Despite our strength, we were betrayed five days into our struggle by Stanford’s union, the Committee for the Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA), when they abruptly ended the strike late on Friday evening and handed us a shameful contract that has so far done nothing but worsen our working conditions. Our strike of 5,000 nurses took place at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford last year. I am giving you the information we learned in our struggle so you don’t make the same mistakes, and so you can further our collective fight as health care workers. Think of this as a nurse-to-nurse report at the end of the shift. Nurses in New York are voting Tuesday on a sell-out contract agreed by the union, which shut down their strike last week.Īs a California nurse who went on strike last year, I want to both send my support and alert my fellow nurses in New York to the position of strength you are in but also the danger you face at this point in your struggle. It does not store any personal data.The following letter to nurses in New York was written by a Stanford nurse in California who participated in the strike last year. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies.
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