California nurses unions, which are to affordable patient care what AIDS is to the immune system, are gearing up to deal with Ebola in the only way they know how.
Some 18,000 nurses in Northern California are planning a two-day strike starting Nov. 11, partly over equipment and training standards for the Ebola virus.
But… they’re doing it for the patients. Just like teachers’ unions go on strike for the children. And politicians steal for the people.
The union said in a Nov. 6 statement that Kaiser “continued to stonewall on dozens of proposals to improve patient care standards, as well as refusing to address the concern of Kaiser RNs about Ebola safety protocols and protective equipment, refusing to even answer questions by the RNs.”
So is this actually about patient care and Ebola?
He disputed the idea that health workers aren’t being trained to deal with Ebola.
“We are training our staff on how to use the right protective gear, to make sure they know how to use it,” Nelson said in the statement. “We have repeatedly asked union leadership to work with us on our Ebola strategy. They have refused. Instead, they continue to hold press conferences claiming hospitals are unprepared for Ebola.”
It just happens that this sudden concern for Ebola and patient care overlaps with a union contract expiring.
The union’s contract with nonprofit Kaiser expired in August and was extended until October, he said.
So this is really about leverage in contract negotiations while using Ebola to scare people.
Another little reminder that teachers’ unions and nurses’ unions are run by unalloyed sociopaths who will literally do and say anything for more seniority protection and quadruple paid overtime.
These people don’t care about patients or children. They exploit them and abuse them to make education and hospitals even worse while lining their own pockets.
What has National Nurses United, one of the more aggressive nurses’ unions been doing? It backed a ban on fracking, fought to allow schools to bill children for “services” provided to them by school RNs (Cha-Ching), fought to prevent community colleges from teaching nursing or to allow athletic trainers to work with patients. Because they just care so much.
The path to fixing education lies through ending the teachers’ unions. The path to fixing health care lies through ending nurses’ unions.





















