Monday, December 08, 2003
Supporting NMH Nurses
Supporting NMH Nurses
GPMI also unanimously expressed solidarity with nurses who went out on strike against Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey on November 14 of 2002. The party's UpNorth local has been working with the NMH nurses from the beginning.
As the party's statement of support points out, the aim of the strike is "to win improved wages, working hours and conditions, and benefits; lower nurse-to-patient ratios; and improved grievance procedures."
The nurses' union—Local 406 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters—has estimated that NMH management has spent four times as much fighting the strike, easily the longest ever by nurses in the United States, as settling would have cost the hospital.
The hospital and a few anti-union nurses have just put the nursing staff through a second certification vote to prove that the majority of working nurses wants the union to represent them. And, unless the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) upholds more than 100 frivolous "job abandonment" challenges against striking nurses who found temporary work to make ends meet during the strike, re-certification will pass with more votes and a bigger percentage margin than before.
GPMI also unanimously expressed solidarity with nurses who went out on strike against Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey on November 14 of 2002. The party's UpNorth local has been working with the NMH nurses from the beginning.
As the party's statement of support points out, the aim of the strike is "to win improved wages, working hours and conditions, and benefits; lower nurse-to-patient ratios; and improved grievance procedures."
The nurses' union—Local 406 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters—has estimated that NMH management has spent four times as much fighting the strike, easily the longest ever by nurses in the United States, as settling would have cost the hospital.
The hospital and a few anti-union nurses have just put the nursing staff through a second certification vote to prove that the majority of working nurses wants the union to represent them. And, unless the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) upholds more than 100 frivolous "job abandonment" challenges against striking nurses who found temporary work to make ends meet during the strike, re-certification will pass with more votes and a bigger percentage margin than before.
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