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Nurses Strike in Wilkes-Barre
“Our region, this is where coal mine unions came from. My grandfather worked in the mine. You have that history, and we’re very serious about our history. You had the garment workers, railroad workers, the coal mines here, where the 8 hr day came from… This is our heritage and we take it very seriously.”
W-B General nurses emphasize issues of staffing, turnover on strike’s final day
“Who’s going to fill those shoes without a good contract to attract nurses to come here?” asked Elaine Weale, president of the local Wyoming Valley Nurses Association. “We can only fill them for so long.”
Wilkes-Barre General nurses return to work
The approximately 450 graduate and registered nurses, who are members of the Wyoming Valley Nurses Association local of Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP), walked the picket line for five days, beginning on Friday. They had been working under the terms of a two-year contract that expired in April 2013.
Cartwright: Striking nurses ‘deserve respect’
“It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to know that this organization doesn’t want to pay for adequate staffing,” Cartwright told nurses. “It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to know that without adequate staffing, patient safety is at risk.”
W-B General nurses file unfair labor charges
The union representing registered nurses at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital claims the hospital broke the law in unfair labor charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board.
W-B General nurses stage strategic pickets
“It used to be about four patients for every nurse on our floor,” said Dorothy Konopki, a registered nurse assigned to the orthopedic surgery patients. “Now it’s closer to six to one.”
W-B General nurses claim mistreatment
WILKES-BARRE — Nurses at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, frustrated by the lack of progress in contract negotiations with the hospital’s owner, took their cause to the street Wednesday in the form of informational picketing.
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