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Updated: 12:56 PM Oct 16, 2007
Nurses On Strike Received Their Last Paycheck
Monday was the beginning of week three for nurses striking against Appalachian Regional Healthcare. Posted: 7:18 PM Oct 15, 2007Reporter: Danielle Morgan Email Address: danielle.morgan@wymtnews.com |
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Monday was the beginning of week three for nurses striking against Appalachian Regional Healthcare.
That means nurses just got their last paycheck until this situation can be resolved.
More than 600 union members are trying to stand firm for a third week, but some registered nurses on strike say the cost of standing up for what they believe in, just went up...last Friday...was their last paycheck.
KNA officials say this is their first strike in the organizations history and there are no funds for a regular strike paycheck for nurses on the picket line either.
Thanks to donations from other union organizations, like the steel workers who went on strike from ARH earlier this year, emergency funds are available.
As for inside, ARH officials say not much has changed since day one of the strike.
Whitesburg Community CEO Ellen Wright says everyone is also stepping in to help where ever needed...including herself, as a registered nurse.
The labor director for the Kentucky Nurses Association says he requested a second meeting with the federal mediator and ARH officials after the first produced no progress.
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This sounds like a 3 year old haveing a temper-tantrum." i wont work unless you give me more, and I will threaten you with violence" oh i'm sorry thats terrorism.
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Hang in there. You are doing the right thing. Your hospital is not about patients first it is only about power and money. Stay strong and stay together.
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I am a concerned citizen of McDowell and what has been going on with the nurses and ARH really concerns me. There is now guards at that hospital and at times they have been really rude to the community. Once my husband who is a retired UMWA member was visiting someone at the hospital and stopped to say hi to some nurses on the picket line when one of the guards came up to him and rudely told him he needed to either go into the hospital or leave. Why is the community not allowed to even speak with anyone on the picket line? I think ARH is being very petty and downright mean to the nurse and the community. My husband and I both will think twice before using ARH's services in the future and we certainly will not while the nurses are on strike. We both support the KNA nurses. "Hang in there guys."
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