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.”
“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.”
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.
Nurses and their top union officials joined state Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, D-121, Wilkes-Barre, in denouncing the Franklin, Tenn.-based hospital owner at a news conference Friday for allegedly violating Act 102, the law in Pennsylvania that makes it illegal to mandate nurses to work overtime.