California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE
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California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE
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Re: California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE
#2This is a good example of why labor unions are important and necessary. A single nurse can be ignored because of the massive power imbalance between an individual and the management collective of a large organization. Nurses banding together to create their own collective creates a level playing field for negotiations.
Re: California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE
#3I can confirm the "used PPE" thing from personal experience. My partner (a nurse at a VA hospital) was given a Tupperware container with holes poked in the lid as "overnight storage" for her N95 mask and was asked to reuse it for up to a month at a time. As far as I know this is still ongoing.
I know the cynical take is "you need to stop letting yourself be surprised / disappointed by this kind of thing" but we should be able to do better, especially in a federally run hospital in the USA.
My coworkers from mainland China were concerned about our well-being and started shipping us KN95 masks, even fairly early on in the pandemic. feelsbadman.jpg
Re: California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE
#4California was prepared for this a decade ago but squandered it.
When the state budget swelled 14 years ago, Schwarzenegger launched a surge capacity stockpile that included mobile hospitals and medical gear intended to prepare California for a situation like it is facing today.
Re: California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE
#5I can confirm the "used PPE" thing from personal experience. My partner (a nurse at a VA hospital) was given a Tupperware container with holes poked in the lid as "overnight storage" for her N95 mask and was asked to reuse it for up to a month at a time. As far as I know this is still ongoing. I know the cynical take is "you need to stop letting yourself be surprised / disappointed by this kind of thing" but we shoul…
> I know the cynical take is "you need to stop letting yourself be surprised / disappointed by this kind of thing" but we should be able to do better, especially in a federally run hospital in the USA.
You're talking about California, the literal state of poorly run government.
Re: California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE
#6California was prepared for this a decade ago but squandered it. When the state budget swelled 14 years ago, Schwarzenegger launched a surge capacity stockpile that included mobile hospitals and medical gear intended to prepare California for a situation like it is facing today. https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/03/31/...
Arnold was elected in a special election after a career politician was recalled.
Re: California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE
#7This can easily be solved with a tiny bit of sense. The state of California has large stockpiles. Now would be the time to distribute some.
EDIT: shows the state of Hacker News readership that this is downvoted when the article states this. Furthermore, here is a second source: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/07/22/governor-newsom-announces-...
hitting the downvoted button because it offends their sensibility without reading articles or doing their own research.
Re: California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE
#8This is a good example of why labor unions are important and necessary. A single nurse can be ignored because of the massive power imbalance between an individual and the management collective of a large organization. Nurses banding together to create their own collective creates a level playing field for negotiations.
every person who downvoted this is a bootlicker
Re: California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE
#9California was prepared for this a decade ago but squandered it. When the state budget swelled 14 years ago, Schwarzenegger launched a surge capacity stockpile that included mobile hospitals and medical gear intended to prepare California for a situation like it is facing today. https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/03/31/...
Arnold was elected in a special election after a career politician was recalled.
That is completely immaterial to the discussion
Re: California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE
#10I can confirm the "used PPE" thing from personal experience. My partner (a nurse at a VA hospital) was given a Tupperware container with holes poked in the lid as "overnight storage" for her N95 mask and was asked to reuse it for up to a month at a time. As far as I know this is still ongoing. I know the cynical take is "you need to stop letting yourself be surprised / disappointed by this kind of thing" but we shoul…
As an outsider this is basically exactly what I would expect to happen in US healthcare.